Sonia Sotomayor Cancer

BAD JUDGES

In this video clip, Sonia Sotomayor, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit widely viewed as a short-listed for the Supreme Court, says that the courts of appeals are "where policy is made. [What?  I didn't say that ... ha-ha-ha]   Here's how the law firm of Eugene Volokh and Associates views it. Jonathon Adler, writes  “ Some seem to think that this is a damning statement and evidence of closet "judicial activism." I don't. As presented in the clip, it seems to be nothing more than an observation that, as a practical matter, many policy disputes are resolved in the federal courts of appeals. This is an indisputably true observation. Moreover, the fact that many policy disputes are resolved in federal appellate courts does not mean that judges are resolving those cases on policy grounds. Litigation over the interpretation or implementation of a federal statute will have significant policy implications -- and deciding the case will, in many instances, "make policy." But this is wholly consistent with the idea that a judge's responsibility is to interpret and apply the law without regard for those policy consequences ”   blah-blah-blah.  That it happens to be true does not make it less repugnant.  Nor does it make arguments for dismantling this stinking system down to its frame and rebuilding it less inviting.  Anyway, with Obama it's a given that we'll get another leftist ideologue like whats-her-face with cancer?  I want to live in a state where gummint ignores the SCOTUS when it oversteps, and issues Jackson-like retorts like --"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" I want enough people to feel the same way so that it happens. Texas? South Carolina? Please, somewhere that's not cold, so MoSup will go with me.