NYT Ed- Out of the Mainstream, Again

[realFedUp]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/25/opinion/25SAT1.html

Out of the Mainstream, Again

Published: October 25, 2003

Of the many unworthy judicial nominees President Bush has put forward, Janice Rogers Brown is among the very worst. As an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, she has declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear. And she has let ideology be her guide in deciding cases. At her confirmation hearing this week, Justice Brown only ratified her critics' worst fears. Both Republican and Democratic senators should oppose her confirmation.

Justice Brown, who has been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has made it clear in her public pronouncements how extreme her views are. She has attacked the New Deal, which gave us Social Security and other programs now central to American life, as "the triumph of our socialist revolution." And she has praised the infamous Lochner line of cases, in which the Supreme Court, from 1905 to 1937, struck down worker health and safety laws as infringing on the rights of business.

Justice Brown's record as a judge is also cause for alarm. She regularly stakes out extreme positions, often dissenting alone. In one case, her court ordered a rental car company to stop its supervisor from calling Hispanic employees by racial epithets. Justice Brown dissented, arguing that doing so violated the company's free speech rights.

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[benfranklin1776]

1. A prime example of radical judicial activism I would say.

You know the kind which conservatives always hypocritically accuse liberals of engaging in. She is
so right wing she makes Judge Roy Bean look like a "warm and fuzzy," bill of rights, loving liberal. It is clear from her many Henry Clay Frick-style pronouncements that she would use a position as a federal judge to help overturn all of the duly enacted, constitutional legislation passed by Congress to secure the health of the elderly, the civil, wage and safety rights of workers, and she would gladly take this country back to the prehistoric days in which workers were the chattel property of the corporations. She most assuredly should be opposed, as the editorial suggests, by Democrats and Republicans both, unless of course the party of the alleged "compassionate conservatism" really does embrace those views, which their recent legislative record strongly suggests. The vote on her confirmation is therefore a true litmus test. The roll call will tell the tale as to who endorses a return to the days of government of the corporation and by the corporation and who stands on behalf of the rights and the security of individual Americans.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Say goodbye to weekends. Any day now.

:grr:


Edit: Stirring up the base, knowing she'll be blocked?

[ixion]

3. company's free speech rights... ARGH

companies do not have free speech rights... INDIVIDUALS have free speech rights... :wtf:

[Democat]

4. Judicial activists are bad, and hollywood actors should shut up

Unless they are Republican.