Sometimes you sound like a nut.

Al Gore's alternate history:

Having gone through that experience [the 2000 presidential election and subsequent litigation], I can tell you-without any doubt whatsoever-that if the justices who formed the majority in Bush v. Gore had not only all been nominated to the court by a Republican president, but had also been confirmed by only Republican senators in party-line votes, America would not have accepted that court's decision.

Moreover, if the confirmation of those justices in the majority had been forced through by running roughshod over 200 years of Senate precedents and engineered by a crass partisan decision on a narrow party line vote to break the Senate's rules of procedure-then no speech imaginable could have calmed the passions aroused in our country.

This is the kind of rhetoric that makes people think he's smart because they can't understand what he's saying. It's a tortured logic that equates filibustering to prevent votes on nominees, when those votes are mandated by the Constitution, to disrespect for the law. Having achieved many of their political goals through court decrees, the left is now opposing any restoration of judicial restraint as a radical departure from our sacred American institutions.

To understand why this issue matters, consider the liberal "constitutional agenda." Rights to engage in homosexual sodomy, abortion, etc. are only the beginning:

The bottom line is that Congress would no longer have the discretion to decline to enact liberal policies [because those policies would become positive rights and government prohibitions would be denied]. The triumph of the left would be constitutionally mandated.