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November 01, 2005
A Most Despicable Suggestion
Just when you thought the mainstream media couldn't get any more stupid, vindictive, venal or arrogant, we have this editorial on the Alito nomination from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (via Powerline):
Another minus is that the nomination lessens the court's diversity. O'Connor herself had expressed the desire that her successor be a woman. O'Connor seems to have grown wiser about diversity as a result of her Supreme Court experience. She came to see the virtues of having a court that looks like America - doubtless a big reason she softened her opposition to affirmative action in recent years.
In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America.
Emphases are mine.
I can't recall anything I've read recently that made me more flat-out furious than this. Are the editors of this paper really ignorant enough of American government to assert that the Supreme Court is supposed to be a representative body? And the insolence of that juvenile claim is dwarfed by the brazen condescending sneer that Justice Clarence Thomas does not represent "the views of mainstream black America."
First: Of course the Supreme Court is not intended to be a representative legislative body. Can the Journal Sentinel writers really be so clueless?
Second: Even if it is true that Clarence Thomas is somehow supposed to "represent the views of mainstream black America", it doesn't follow that those popular views will necessarily be correct. Popularity has no bearing on truthfulness.
John Hindraker at Powerline concludes:
...the liberals at the Journal Sentinel apparently think that Supreme Court justices are like House members who represent constituencies, and are supposed to vote according to the wishes of those they represent. That's a stupid idea, obviously. But stay with it for a moment. If that is their theory, then why do the same liberals consistently praise Supreme Court decisions that frustrate the wishes of most Americans? If the Supreme Court is a sort of representative democracy, then who represents the large majority of Americans who don't want the Court to fabricate hitherto-unknown "rights" out of whole cloth, and their own political biases?
Exactly. The editors of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel can stick their asterisk where the sun don't shine.
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