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    The Supreme Court's days as a super-legislature are over, and Democrats aren't happy

    The Supreme Court's days as a super-legislature are over, and Democrats aren't happy about it is an interesting analysis of just why the Democrats are so upset.

    On Day Two of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, a number of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee appeared to be sizing themselves up for black judicial robes.

    If they weren’t doing that, they were lamenting the fact that someone of their own great wisdom couldn’t sit on the Supreme Court — the highest legislature in the land, they seem to think — and rule the country from their lifetime position.

    Democrats placed themselves one after another into Kavanaugh’s seat on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals to second-guess rulings, which is only natural for those who think the courts are there to make policy decisions....

    All these opinions about Kavanaugh’s rulings have one thing in common: They come from politicians who seem to think judging is a lot like what they do for a living. But judges don’t make policy, and the Supreme Court is not a super-legislature. That’s why a good judge who decides cases based on law and precedent will not like all the outcomes of the cases he hears.

    Federal judges don’t run for their seats or make promises on how they will vote. And they are not supposed to make rulings that set the policies that affect millions of Americans. Policy is supposed to be a function of the democratic process, not something created by a lifetime-appointed nine-person oligarchy.

    Democrats are upset about where the Supreme Court has been heading not because it isn’t doing its job, and not because it is overly partisan, but because they don’t like the fact that cases going there are increasingly being decided based on the Constitution and the law and not on motivated reasoning in search of liberals’ pet causes.

    Democrats look back wistfully to the era before 2006, when they could at least often count on the courts to stymie conservative reform using such motivated reasoning. That hasn’t been the case as often lately, and they’re not happy.

    ...The good news is that the Supreme Court has been and likely will continue moving back in the direction of providing predictable, law-based and Constitution-based rulings, rather than moving forward the Left's agenda. That's why the Democrats are fuming.
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    Gee. Follow the law. Amazing.
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    Gee. Follow the law. Amazing.
    Liberals don't like the law unless it promotes their agendas.
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    Senate Democrats are condemning Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s association with the Federalist Society, ignoring the fact that every current Supreme Court justice – including all the liberals – speak at Federalist Society events, and Justice Elena Kagan says, “I love the Federalist Society!”

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/08/kagan-i-love-the-federalist-society-but-democrats-vilify-kavanaugh-for-it/

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    This is the single most important issue for our nation. If we have a SCOTUS that follows the Constitution and does not make law, we will be just fine.
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