Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Judicial Appointments as a voting issue

Since the election, Democrats have fulminated, fretted, blamed and sometimes asked what they are doing wrong. Now Manuel Miranda offers them some good advice for free: Give up the obstruction tactics and using the Supreme Court as a political instrument. That issue might not have motivated a broad constituency, but those it did motivate were galvanized by it. The votes in state after state against redefining marriage to include same-sex marriages were 70%, and the issues brought a lot of voters to the polls who weren't concerned before. They don't like judges making decisions like this, effectively placing themselves above democracy.

Will they listen? Maybe, if the Miranda's newest column is true.

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