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Thursday, August 2, 2012
I don't see Obama second term appointing SCOTUS judges cast in the image and likeness of Alito, but I expect Romney would do so without hesitation.
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Romney's record as governor isn't all that dissimilar from Obama's in the White House. There were even moments of liberalism to Romney's record (gun control, state co-pays for abortion, etc.) - Certainly more progressive than Obama. Even the Boston Globe admitted Romney's judicial picks "have generally not been is overtly partisan".
The Boston Globe on Romney’s judicial appointments:
Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans, has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters (75%) of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced, instead tapping registered Democrats or independents – including two gay lawyers who have supported expanded same-sex rights.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show. In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters, and 14 registered Democrats.
On the other hand, Obama's appointments are really nothing to defend. Both Sotomayor and Kagan are to the right of the justices that they replaced (Souter and Stevens).
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/09-0
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/13/kagan
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4074
http://www.theroot.com/views/sotomayor-liberal-enough?page=0,1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/18/AR2009071801787.html
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/07/17/abcs-greenburg-sotomayor-not-liberal-activist-almost-conservative
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2011/06/28/nprs-totenberg-kagan-sotomayor-not-nearly-liberal-predecessors
http://hispanic9.com/true_to_hispanic_beliefs,_sotomayor_is_not_a_liberal.htm
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