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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2001
> CONTACT: Kristin Hansen, (202) 393-2100
> FOR RADIO: Kelly Green
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> FRC'S CONNOR SAYS LIBERAL LITMUS TEST ON
> BUSH NOMINEES GIVES STAMP OF APPROVAL TO
> JUDICIAL ACTIVISM
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> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Liberal senators are attempting to block
> President Bush's judicial nominees whose ideologies they
> find objectionable unless members of Congress are promised
> special veto powers.
>
> "There should be no litmus test on judicial nominees,"
> Family Research Council President Ken Connor said Wednesday.
> "Those who oppose nominees based on political and
> philosophical differences politicize the law and legitimize
> judicial activism. Allowing senators to have these special
> veto powers is simply bipartisanship run amok.
>
> "The answer to liberal judicial activism is not conservative
> judicial activism, but rather judges who value the
> Constitution and the laws enough to put them ahead of their
> own political and philosophical preferences.
>
> "Judge Robert Bork was right when he said:
>
> 'The democratic integrity of law depends entirely upon the
> degree to which its processes are legitimate. A judge who
> announces a decision must be able to demonstrate that he
> began from recognized legal principles and reasoned in an
> intellectually coherent and politically neutral way to his
> result. Those who would politicize the law offer the
> public, and the judiciary, the temptation of results without
> regard to democratic legitimacy.'
>
> "The problem of judicial activism was one of the central
> issues in last year's presidential campaign," Connor said.
> "The looming debate over President Bush's judicial nominees
> will be of great value if it sparks a larger one: How do we,
> as Americans, restore democratic legitimacy and apply a
> politically neutral standard to judging?
>
> "The answer to this question will only come if President
> Bush and Congress insist on the appointment of judges who
> will exercise restraint and accord a new level of deference
> to the decision of the people and to their elected
> representatives."
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