Tuesday, January 17, 2006

The Right does not believe in States Rights or in Judical Restraint

ILLUSTRATED: Conservative Jurists vote for substantive results, and whichever level or branch of government that gets those results.
I don't know which is worse, the agenda of the conservatives in power, or the inability of Democrats to articulate it. Here's this Democrat's shot:
Today the Supreme Court ruled denying the federal government the ability to stop states from allowed physician assisted suicide.
Full Ruling , Summary
I am not discussing the SUBSTANCE of that policy, only the hypocritical PROCESS of the conservatives vis-à-vis their campaign rhetoric.
Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts are Bush’s three favorite justices. He said so as to the first two, and appointed the last. Yet these three not only said a law could be stopped (ahem Judicial Restraint anyone?), but indeed that the Feds could stop a state law (pssst States’ Rights?).
As I’ve said on previous posts, the Scalia, Thomas, and Rehnquist voted to strike down the most laws in recent years. Clinton’s appointees voted to strike down the least.
Conservatives do not really believe in Judicial Restraint, they have a results based agenda. They do not believe in States Rights, only which ever level of government is likely to get the results they want. Scalia seems to love the Commerce Clause here.
Working backwards from the result, they throw in theory. Then their spin doctors effectively translate that into bogus rhetoric.

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