Some thoughts on the present day SCOTUS confirmation process

Shouldn't this thread be moved to the Politics section? It's clearly a Political thread, not strictly news-related. Kind of ironic considering who started it, too. What a joke.

 

You make a good point. With exception, to Weather Underground, Baptist Board, & the John Birch Society, we should weed out the hate groups. NAMBLA probably isn't a hate group, but they are just plain sick. I would also add the ACLU & ACORN to that list as well, since they are extremely biased.

 

It's good to see at least one person here can comment on what Ken said without resorting to name-calling and smart aleck remarks.

I agree with Ken that Ms. Sotomayor should be confirmed.

 

The point should be that the Supreme Court has become a legislative body. Did the people who instigated the Constitutional Revolution intend for this to occur or did out beloved founding fathers plain screw up?

 

I am quite surprised you would exempt the Weather Underground. From Wikipedia:

Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization (abbreviated WUO), was an American radical left organization founded in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) (or claimed to be the actual SDS).
The group is notable for a campaign from 1969 through the middle 1970s of riots, bombings, and a jailbreak. The "Days of Rage," the group's first public demonstration on October 8, 1969, was a riot in Chicago coordinated with the trial of the Chicago Seven. In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO). The bombing attacks were mostly against government buildings, along with several banks. Most were preceded by communiqués that provided evacuation warnings, along with statements regarding the particular matter which motivated the attack. For the bombing of the United States Capitol on March 1, 1971, they issued a statement saying it was "in protest of the US invasion of Laos." For the bombing of The Pentagon on May 19, 1972, they stated it was "in retaliation for the US bombing raid in Hanoi." For the January 29, 1975 bombing of the United States Department of State Building, they stated it was "in response to escalation in Vietnam."[2]

 

Not only do you have an issue with making legitimate comparisons but you struggle with coherent responses as is evidenced by this.