While interpretation will often cross over to legislating, I think Scalia was more a strict constructionist than most and as such less inclined to legislate from the bench than those who viewed the Constitution as a document that needed to be interpreted based on the existing culture and not based on the plain reading of the provisions. While I may not agree with how he came out on certain issues, I think he is one of the last justice people would accuse of overly encroaching on the legislative body.Unit2Sucks said:
I'm not watching the hearings. I heard a little bit about her opening statement and I guess she's going to pretend that what Scalia did wasn't legislating from the court. It's a farce.
She sounds like a good person with a great family and obviously doesn't have all the baggage Kavanaugh had. Even if none of the allegations of shenanigans against Kavanaugh were false, we know what role he played in the Clinton impeachment and he is a partisan hack. I would assume that she will be challenged on her judicial philosophies and that Republicans will rubber stamp her approval. The idea that Democrats who are going to elect a catholic president are somehow anti-catholic is peak White fragility. The only way it could be less self-aware were if Bill Burr delivered the rant from a Netflix special while complaining about being de-platformed.
As for the future of our government, the age of comity is officially dead. The Garland / ACB affair has officially polished off what was left of it. What this means is that any party that owns the white house and both houses of congress will completely ignore the minority party. Democrats will pack the courts, pass legislation without acknowledging Republican outrage, etc. Our checks and balances have been laid bare the last 4 years and we are going to see the limitations of the constitution (hint, they are many). This is a good news bad news situation. If the people in power are competent, this could lead to an improvement in our society. If they are reprehensible grifters, like the current ruling party, it will lead to chaos. Unless things change, it's just a matter of time before enough idiots and elderly get conned by another grifter and his minions and we are back to the chaos of the last 4 years.
When Biden goes against one of the key teachings of the Catholic church (abortion), I don't think most Catholics would view Biden's election as a win. For me, I don't really care about a candidate's religion but more on their policies and character. But to argue that Barrett's faith is not viewed as a strong negative by the Democrats is also a farce.
And it is not peak of White fragility since quite a few non-Whites are also Catholics. In fact, there may be more non-White Catholics (with almost a majority of Latin America dominated by Catholics) than White.
And saying voting for Biden means the Democrats are not anti-Catholic would be tantamount to someone on the extreme far right saying that they are not racist despite their policies because they supported Ben Carson and like Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Herschel Walker and Candace Owens.