{"id":1677,"date":"2004-04-30T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1677.html"},"modified":"2004-04-30T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:38:50","slug":"he-probably-didnt-appreciate-the-unintentional-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/he-probably-didnt-appreciate-the-unintentional-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"He probably didn&#8217;t appreciate the unintentional humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-scalia30apr30,1,2013492.story?coll=la-headlines-nation\">This<\/a> is so ironic on its face, I thought it was some kind of joke:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judges have become too much like politicians, with the unfortunate result that picking new ones has become needlessly partisan and time-consuming, Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to &#8220;do what the people want,&#8221; instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically, Scalia said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So politics has made itself known,&#8221; he told an audience of the Philadelphia Bar Assn.<\/p>\n<p>Good judges are honest lawyers who stick to the letter of the law or the Constitution, whatever their political philosophy, Scalia said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Scalia<\/i> is troubled by the frequency with which judged act like politicians? <i>Scalia<\/i> doesn&#8217;t like it when partisan agendas influence court rulings? I&#8217;m at a loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so ironic on its face, I thought it was some kind of joke: Judges have become too much like politicians, with the unfortunate result that picking new ones has become needlessly partisan and time-consuming, Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday. As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to &#8220;do what the people want,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}