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Piss Off Orrin Hatch And Nominate Diane Wood To The Supreme Court « The Erstwhile Conservative: A Blog of Repentance
At the risk of turning off regular readers, the pending resignation of Justice John Paul Stevens cries out for a 2000-word essay on why Diane Wood should be Obama’s nomination to replace the ”liberal” voice on the Court.
Okay. I won’t write 2000 words, but I do find Judge Wood very interesting, particularly her approach to judging. Stay with me, if you want to have a little ammo to combat the onslaught of hysteria and ignorance that will be forthcoming in the philosophical battle over who will be the next justice on our highest court.
In a lecture she gave in 2005 titled, “Our 18th Century Constitution in the 21st Century World,” Judge Wood, who sits on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, shows why she would be a match for any conservative currently sitting on the high court.
A few more highlights deserve a mention here. Wood discusses “impoundment” (you’ll have to look it up) and the controversial War Powers Resolution (or Act, as I was taught in school) which seeks, albeit with questionable constitutionality, to limit the powers of any president to prosecute wars like, say, Vietnam………
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Another area of ambiguity involves “state sovereignty,” a hot topic on the Tea Party circuit. Writing in 2005, Wood said:
http://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/piss-off-orrin-hatch-and-nominate-diane-wood-to-the-supreme-court/
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