Courting Disaster: Honaker Nomination An Insult To The Constitution

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Courting Disaster: Honaker Nomination An Insult To The Constitution
By Rob Boston Tue Feb 12, 2008


No one should make the mistake of assuming that President George W. Bush considers himself a lame duck. In fact, Bush is as busy as ever trying to put his cramped view of separation of church and state on as many federal programs as possible.

That includes the federal judiciary. Bush has nominated Richard Honaker, a former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, to a federal judgeship. It's an alarming move, considering Honaker's extreme views.

At the Supreme Court level, Bush has been careful to appoint judges who at least have the patina of fairness about them. Thus, we were given John G. Roberts and Samuel A. Alito. Both have turned out to be unstellar nominees, a lot like Antonin Scalia but with less sarcasm.

Nominees to the lower federal courts tend to receive less scrutiny from the media and the public - and it's here Bush has tried to stack the bench with some real doozies.

Consider Honaker. He believes abortion is murder and that biblical law should trump the secular law. He said in one speech, "I came to know that if the Bible is true, if Christianity is true, then it is true in family life. It is true in economics. It is true in law, and it is true in all facets of human endeavor. I know that with only such a world view can Christians have any impact upon the culture around them."

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