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Amy Klobuchar: Our best justices have resisted ideological pigeonholing
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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Jul 06, 2005 11:54pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Friday, July 8, 2005 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor highlights the perennial issue of judicial independence, which is a hallmark of our constitutional government.
For President Bush and his party, the opportunity to nominate a new justice is an opportunity to shape and control the Supreme Court for years, even decades, to come.
The extremists are now suiting up for battle, hoping they can embolden the president to install a true believer who will rubber-stamp their every view. But the American people expect and deserve better.
The Supreme Court is not simply a creature of partisan politics, and the job of the justices is not to mechanically dispense the kind of decisions desired by the president who happens to nominate them.
Supreme Court justices may be presidential appointees, but that does not require them to be a president's ideological agents. Our nation's founders understood that our freedoms are best protected when no single branch of government exercises unchecked powers.
As Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz recently stated, "Judicial independence is not for the benefit of judges; it is for the benefit of the people. And it belongs to the people." |
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