No Justice for the Justice

By Michael Ramirez

Opinion

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Supreme Court appointments are perhaps the most important confirmations of our lifetime because they are lifetime appointments. They directly affect our lives and American jurisprudence for decades. It is the selection of who determines the law of the land.

As a constitutional conservative, I want jurists who are eminently qualified but are also mindful of the Constitution — originalists and textualists like Antonin Scalia and constitutionalists like Clarence Thomas. However, the mandate for the U.S. Senate is not to approve or disapprove of the philosophical leanings of the candidate but rather to determine whether that person is qualified to be on the Supreme Court. Advise and consent, not pick and choose. The selection of the nominee is the constitutional prerogative of the president.

Elections have consequences.

Somewhere along the way, the process changed. The Bork hearings in ’87 paved the way for the nasty, disgraceful and partisan tone of future confirmation hearings. When senators reopened the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing after Anita Hill’s FBI testimony was leaked, it opened a new era of how far Senate Democrats would descend from the role of advise and consent to smear and destroy. [thank you Joe …Read the Rest

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