What kind of Supreme Court judges would Barack Obama appoint as president?
From NewsMax:
When asked by CNN in May whether any current justices would be models for his nominees, Obama replied that he considered Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter to be sensible judges. All three voted in the majority in the child rape case, as did Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Paul Stevens.
If he considers Breyer, Bader Ginsburg and Souter to be "sensible" judges, I'd hate to see his idea of "ideal" judges.
The rape case referenced in the quote was the one which struck down a Louisiana law allowing capital punishment for rapists when the victim is under 12.
These justices were also on the wrong side of the "read the terrorists their rights on the battlefield" decision, the recent gun rights decision, and pretty much every other ultra-liberal decisions that's come out of the Supreme Court in recent years.
As decidedly un-enthused as I am about John McCain, if only for the issue of judicial appointments we need to support him. I don't have a high degree of confidence that McCain's picks would be the kind of Constitutional judges we need, but they would almost certainly be better than anyone Obama, the most liberal congressman of 2007, would pick.
McCain might stumble into an okay nomination or maybe even a good one; Obama's would all undoubtedly be devastating for America.
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