10-09-2018, 01:30 PM
(10-09-2018, 07:05 AM)Galen Wrote: Pat Buchanan has a pretty good idea about why the Dims are so freaked out about the Supreme Court. It was their ultimate weapon in getting their agenda through and they don't what to do without the Court dictating to the rest of us. Buchanan is no libertarian but he still makes good points that are worth considering.
The left has always been a nasty bunch of authoritarians.
The court hasn't had a liberal tilt for over 50 years. It's been center right for all but two years, and then only barely less so:
![[Image: Graph_of_Martin-Quinn_Scores_of_Supreme_...37-Now.png]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Graph_of_Martin-Quinn_Scores_of_Supreme_Court_Justices_1937-Now.png)
I have a bit of a problem seeing Rehnquist as a more conservative jurist than Scalia, Alito and Thomas, even at the height of his ideological period,
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