Because I don’t care. Well, perhaps a little, but not much. I have no faith that John Roberts or anyone George Bush selects will do anything to help the conservative cause during their tenure on the Supreme Court.
We’ve had a so-called conservative court for years, and look what’s happened. Child killing is still “law of the land” (Child killing as state law is just as atrocious, but the power to decide yea or nay belongs to the states), government confiscation of private property for the dumbest of reasons is “law of the land,” and unelected justices will continue to function as lawmakers instead of law interpreters.
But who cares what I think anyway, right? Listen to Star Parker:
In the conservative approach, the law we have is a product of the wisdom of the ages, and the only surprises today are how the law might apply in new situations. In a liberal world, we live forever in a social experiment and our reality is the result of whatever thinking happens to be in vogue among the social engineers.Using this approach, I hereby declare myself to one and all that I’m a conservative.
Citizens don’t need their lives defined by others. They need protection. And the vulnerable particularly need protection. Protection means having a legal code that has integrity and having judges that see their job as relating to that law to protect people from the unjust encroachment by others. I would say a society of tyranny is one in which it is never clear what the law is and how I am protected. Ironically, this also characterizes a liberal society.
Also see The Supreme Court Nomination Blog.
