The president should reject the pressure of the extreme factions of his party that want litmus tests for his nominee. This process shouldn't just be about whether the next justice would help roll back women's rights by overturning Roe v. Wade , the law of the land. It should be about something much more basic: protecting our core constitutional values for generations to come, the freedoms that we've fought for, bled for and died for.
When Kennedy says stuff like this, does the rejection of litmus tests go both ways, i.e. Bush rejects a litmus test for choosing his nominee but likewise the liberals reject employing a pro-choice litmus test for their yea votes? Or is a one-way street? I'm guessing the latter and I don't understand why. Obviously Roe is a problematic decision. Compare it with Brown v Board of Ed. In historical context it was controversial. It certainly revoked 100 years of precedence and yet, there has been no controversy over upholding that decision in the 50 years since it came down, probably because it was a well crafted jurisprudentially solid decision. Yet Roe has been in jeopardy from day one, which jeopardy, methinks, comes from the fact that it was poorly crafted decision to start with and maybe needs to be undone so that the legislator can do their jobs and craft legislation that reflects the wll of the people consistent with constitutional guarantees.
Another question, does Kennedy realize that those "core consitutional values" he is citing were only discovered in 1965?
Did this guy actually ever pass a bar or did the cheating thing prohibit him from lawyerhood?
