Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the Senate, so we control the confirmation process. And these are two supposedly coequal branches of government involved in this filling of a Supreme Court vacancy.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
But the Supreme Court does not make sweeping changes in constitutional law by accident, or by its own design. Rather, the Court is limited to deciding the cases that the parties ask the Court to decide.
The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.
If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
No opposing quotes found.