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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Of course we see the pattern, Will.
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A pattern of the Democrats picking Democratically biased justices and the Republicans picking Republican biased justices? That sounds an awful lot like the bias I've been talking about since post #13, when I mentioned that Hillary would be another partisan justice.
In the scenario presented by the OP, Obama (Dem) nominates Hillary and she's confirmed by what is almost certainly going to be a Democratic congress. Hillary Clinton, as I hope we all know, has been very liberal in both her legal and political career. Should that scenario actually play out, we'd simply be placing a Democratic yes-man on the bench, simply maintaining the status quo, which we've established is a politically biased SCOTUS.
Instead we should be nominating people who are clearly going to put justice above partisan politics. Those are the people that should be on the bench, be that the bench of the SCOTUS or even a local bench. That's the point I've been trying to make all along.