Just Anti-choice Smoke Blowing

I am watching Judges on Trial on CNN's Broken Government. I am so sick and tired of hearing Republican bullshit about activist judges, and a "policy making" Supreme Court.

Again, I refer to Scalia:

'You talk about independence as though it is unquestionably and unqualifiably a good thing," Scalia said. "It may not be. It depends on what your courts are doing."

Scalia added, "The more your courts become policy-makers, the less sense it makes to have them entirely independent."

The U.S. Constitution IS public policy. Their entire reason for existence is to ensure that lower court rulings and state laws do not sit in opposition to the biggest public policy of all.

To accuse the Supreme Court of making political decisions and "setting" public policies as though this is something only recent and suddenly anathema is just blowing smoke. Perhaps the Republicans should be reminded of...oh, let's see... how about the Dred Scott Case? Brown vs. Board of Education? It is just another anti-choice strategy.

I am enjoying listening to Justice Breyer and former Justice O'Connor, though. I wish all of our Justices were of their caliber. It's just a crying shame that the first black Justice had to be such a pawn to the white right, when there are so many so much more deserving of this long-overdue honor.

Listen to The Honorable Stephen G. Breyer interviewed by Jeffrey Toobin.