Obama to nominate Merrick Garland for SC vacancy

[Spartanmack]

well, okay. his record looks... okay.

orrin hatch's statement made me think of that scene in Ghostbusters where they all try not to think of any thoughts, but Ray thinks up the marshmellow man.

you can just imagine all the Republicans on the judiciary committee thinking "nobody give him a name, please god, nobody give him a name..." then hearing a loud collective groan when Orrin says "well merrick garland would be a good choice, not that obama will nominate him."

of course it looks OK to you - the New York Times placed Garland to the left of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, way to the left of Justice Stephen Breyer and minimally to the right of Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg. The LA times wrote "“If the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a staunch conservative, is replaced by a moderate-to-liberal Justice Garland, the court would tip to the left on several key issues, like abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gun control, campaign spending, immigration and environmental protection.”

Yet both of these publications led stories with headlines identifying Garland as a centrist.

My favorite part about these discussions is how you and sbee don't think it's "judicial activism" when the liberal justices vote the left's side on EVERY single issue yet it is when Scalia (who broke ranks with conservatives way more than any liberal justice has with the left) and others vote the right way.

http://townhall.com/columnists/denn...land-and-the-lefts-disdain-for-truth-n2137592

 

[Michchamp]

This "tough on crime" stance applies to all elected officials. They are selective on the people they crack down upon. But there is this.

what about this?

 

[byco42]

what about this?

Yeah, well that was the narrative I was hearing and discussing as it was happening. Welcome to 1975.

 

[Michchamp]

at least "tough on crime" seems to be on the way out in some places.

Chicago voted out their "tough on crime" AG and Cleveland did too, in favor of candidates that promised to reevaluate sentencing and lighter penalties for non-violent, victimless crimes like drug possession. oh, and in both cases the "tough on crime" prosecutors were not so tough on crimes committed by cops. Governing according to the "Do as we say, not as we do" principle is getting tougher in the age of widespread camera phones.