After Slamming Activist Judges, Sessions Criticizes Kagan For Not Being Activist (& Tenther) Enough
Again, no surprises here. This is what they do, this is all they do: Manufacture outrage out of air.
I think it’s striking though that the positions they demand everyone hold— the new orthodoxy- move increasingly further right:
Sessions laid out a simple test that judicial nominees must overcome: They must not use the courts to thwart democracy:
SESSIONS: The question is: does the judge understand that they can’t utilize the power, the lifetime appointment, to redefine the meaning of the constitution — to have it promote an agenda in an activist way that the American people won’t vote for.
Yet, just seconds earlier, Session attacked Kagan because she does not subscribe to a radical “tenther” philosophy that would eliminate elected national leaders’ power to address national challenges:
SESSIONS: I think this nominee does have serious deficiencies, issues that need to be raised. The American people are concerned about their courts. They’re concerned about a growing expansive government that seems to be beyond anything they’ve ever seen before. And they’d like to know what their judges might have to do about it. So I think that’s kind of where we are.
Tentherism is a cancer that is going to metastasize right around 2012.
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