Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Monday, November 22, 2004

Two Types of Bush Judicial Nominees

Conservative Activists vs. Principled Conservatives

I basically agree. There are certain areas of contemporary constitutional jurisprudence that I'd like to see reversed - most notably the Court's abortion cases - but I'm by no means on board for the whole "Constitution in Exile", lets-repeal-the-entire-regulatory-state program. I feel about the post-Wicker v. Filburn Commerce Clause jurisprudence the same way I feel about the Bush tax cut: it was probably a bad idea at the time, but it will almost certainly do more harm than good to fix the problem now.

I'm really rooting for Michael McConnell, but I'm not getting my hopes up.