McCain vows to name more 'Alitos' and 'Robertses'

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McCain vows to name more 'Alitos' and 'Robertses'
Matt Stearns | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: May 06, 2008 04:46:34 PM

WASHINGTON — John McCain sought to burnish his conservative credentials Tuesday with a broadside against "the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts by the people we entrust with judicial power" and a promise of "better judges" in the mold of Supreme Court Justices John G. Roberts and Samuel Alito.

In a speech on his judicial philosophy delivered in a chapel at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, decried federal judges who "assured of lifetime tenures...show little regard for the authority of the president, the Congress and the states. They display even less interest in the will of the people."

The intended audience seemed delighted.

"From a conservative perspective, he says all the right things," wrote University of Utah law professor Paul Cassell on the popular conservative legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy.

Liberal groups blasted McCain, saying his bouquet for the right undercuts his self-styled maverick appeal to independent voters and even some Democrats.

"Here's what McCain was really telling the party base: If you liked George W. Bush's nominees, you're going to love the judges John McCain will put on the bench," said Kathryn Kolbert, president of People for the American Way, noting that the decisions of the Roberts court have limited workers' rights, environmental protections and access to abortions.

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[ck4829]

1. K&R - Protecting the judiciary from the right wing is something that really matters.

[stevebreeze]

2. Roberts court has also limited the right to vote

based entirely on the fiction of voter fraud.

[maxsolomon]

3. and that, kids, it the main reason we need a dem in office

even if the economy plunges into a pit & that dem serves 1 term. the liberal judges are hanging on till their last breaths, and that's coming soon.

[Zywiec]

4. Who is Robertses? n/t

[dbackjon]

5. And this is why it is important for anyone that considers themselves

Progressive, or a Democrat, or actually gives a damn about the US HAS to vote for the nominee, whether Clinton or Obama.

Neither would dream of nominating anyone close to either, and frankly, the any poster that suggests they would should be banned as a Freeper Troll.

[NJmaverick]

6. This post should be mandatory reading for anyone who says they are not going to vote Dem in Nov

THis is what all of us need to fight for and remember. If not for ourselves our children and future generations.

[tavalon]

8. Give them a few weeks to get over their bad selves

They will be back. Nobody who is genuinely part of DU will vote for McCain or sit it out. It won't happen. They're just frustrated.

[tavalon]

7. Of course he does

He won't get the chance though.

[bdamomma]

9. this should be enough to tell us all why we need a Dem in the WH

how much abuse do we need?

[electropop]

10. Thanks McCain for handing us another juicy TV ad.

Once we turn the cannons on the McCampaign, he's going down.

[RadiationTherapy]

11. This is all he wants. He would retire/resign after getting one or two on there.

nt

[and-justice-for-all]

12. I love how rethugs continue to hang themselves...

great strategy!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. EXCELLENT!!! In addition to a hundred-years-war

we get a promise of an intolerable court.

I'm feeling better about November!

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