It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
I think there needs to be a range of justices, of all types. You can't just pick one type.
To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story.
Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
Though the critics are loud and the temptations to join them may be many, mark me down too as a believer that the traditional account of the judicial role Justice Scalia defended will endure.
I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'
This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.
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