Monday, October 18, 2004

Politics: three words to motivate you:

The Supreme Court.

Stephen G. Bryer, sworn in on Aug 3, 1994, is the court's junior member. Chances are, some of those kids are gonna be having heart attacks or something pretty soon. And if you care about the protection of any of the advances in our society over the past 65 years--including abortion, capital punishment, the rules dealing with national security investigations, criminal justice, election finance rules, civil rights, affirmative action, and freedom of speech vs. pornography, and now gay marriage--then Bush court appointees should scare the hell out of you. Given that a president's legacy is often carried the longest in the form of his Supreme Court justices (Nixon wouldn't believe what Rehnquist is doing now), I don't know why this isn't a more central campaign issue along with terror, Iraq, social security, health care reform, and gay people being able to walk around in broad day light without having things thrown at them.

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