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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
There are 100 names that are "considered" in order to make one group or another happy during this process. Don't delude yourself into thinking she actually stood a chance with Dubya.
I think the "where policy is made" quote is key here, because hopefully we'll have a debate in this country about what the role of the judiciary is.
It's a co-equal branch of government, not a rubber stamp for congress that the conservatives have tried to say it should be the past 25+ years.
I think that, among many other good reasons, this is one of the key reasons she was picked. Not in spite of that quote but because of it.
The same way that it wasn't a mistake that Obama threw the word "empathy" out there at the beginning of this process and conservatives went into a frenzy over it.
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Policy should be set by the legislative branch. Keep in mind the executive branch is tasked with effecting the will of the people, which is supposed to be expressed by the legislature, with the executive acting like a check on policy, not as that which sets policy. We are so far from the original intent of the Constitution that someone from the judicial branch making an absurd comment about policy doesn't matter a damn. We need to reboot