[lbo-talk] Alito & disability

[Michael Hoover]

>>> cbcox at ilstu.edu 01/14/06 7:56 PM >>>
Marta, they are NOT spineless, nor are they stupid. They (the DP
leadership as a whole) are pursuing a policy that they believe in. Part
of that policy, perhaps its very core, is that the opposition between
the two parties must be a non-antagonistic contradiction; pursuing that
contradiction must never disrupt or present a challenge to the normal
operations of U.S. Society. And essential to those operations is the
principle that the Supreme Court is "above politics," that one can
object to the personal honesty or legal competence of a nominee, but
that one cannot, except marginally, oppose a nomination on "ideological"
grounds.
Carrol
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ah yes, the supremely political court...

how many times did alito spew load of rubbish about a judge not having 
an agenda...

fwiw: several poli sci studies of which i'm aware found 75%-80% concordance
between presidential policy preferences and votes of supreme court justices
that they appointed, most recently, segal/timpone/howard concluded that
'presidential success' declines over time, divergence ostensibly occurs more 
in civil liberties/rights cases than in economic/property ones... michael hoover

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