tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post7486069900661728460..comments2023-09-11T08:30:08.843-07:00Comments on Life Training Institute Blog: Will McCain Compromise on Supreme Court Candidates? [Serge]SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01905606527143286458noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-59709710366048516362008-01-31T03:29:00.000-08:002008-01-31T03:29:00.000-08:00Anyone who's going to nominate a pro-life judge is...Anyone who's going to nominate a pro-life judge isn't a judicial conservative. The political views of the judge shouldn't be the issue, or the GOP president will be no better than Democratic presidents have been at nominating judicial conservatives. John Paul Stevens is pro-life, as far as I can tell. He just thinks the Constitution allows for people to do something he believes to be wrong. We don't want judges who will legislate from the bench. We want judges who recognize that there is no legal right to abortion in the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>This has always been McCain's view, and I have no doubt that he would nominate judges he believes to be judicial conservatives in exactly this way.<BR/><BR/>As for the Gang of 14, here's what they agreed to. They agreed not to filibuster some of the controversial nominees, which McCain had never intended to do, on the condition that they not be expected to vote for some of the most controversial of the Bush nominees. Some of them did go to bat for some of the controversial ones, and McCain was one of them. There was one that he didn't, and it was because that nominee had been part of crafting the Bush Administration's torture doctrine. It's not surprising that McCain would oppose him, and it had nothing to do with pro-life or pro-choice concerns.<BR/><BR/>Basically McCain was part of the group in order to get more of Bush's conservative nominees through. If you don't like that, then don't like it, but please don't pretend it's because he's not a judicial conservative or that his own appointees would be like David Souter or John Paul Stevens. There's no evidence of any such thing and much evidence that his nominees will be like most of Bush's.Jeremy Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441308872350317672noreply@blogger.com