Speyside wrote:Buckeye, thank you for the clarification.
I put this up for just that reason, she deserves respect, but like Scalia and any other SCOTUS judge who passed does. IMHO they have the most important role in the country. In truth I would love to see a libertarian nominated. , not in the political sense, but in the thought process. A libertarian Supreme Court might solve many of our problems.
Foremost a Supreme court justice if you understand federalism is not the most important role in the country. If these unelected black robed justices for life have the most important role in the country, then you are living under a judicial tyranny.
As Ron Paul (a real libertarian) wrote "Since many citizens lack basic knowledge of our Constitution and federalist system, they are easily manipulated by media and academic elites who tell them that judges are the absolute and final arbiters of US law. But the Supreme Court is not supreme over the other branches of government; it is supreme only over lower federal courts. If Americans wish to be free of judicial tyranny, they must at least develop basic knowledge of the judicial role in our republican government."
The lower federal courts themselves are a creation of Congress under Article III of the Constitution, "The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." As you can see by the wording, Congress can create, destroy, restructure the inferior courts or limit federal court jurisdiction. Obviously Congress hasn't had any backbone to use their authority, probably because they like judicial activism when it suits their rotten agendas.
So what do you think, would any President in the two-party duopoly ever nominate a real libertarian? It's pretty hard to imagine since the Democrats and Republicans prefer a judge they think they can control and rubber stamp their unconstitutional laws if challenged. The thought that either would nominate a libertarian loose cannon who would adjudicate only based on the Constitution seems unthinkable.