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Originally posted by CamChicks
If Scalia made it, then no, the democrats didn't defend us well.
A Supreme Court Justice's job is to be the last line of defense for american freedom. They are not 'elected' specifically because their job is not to please the majority. Their job is to protect the rights of minorities. To protect unpopular speech. To limit the power of the president to pass laws that restrict liberty. Their job is to defend the constitution.
Not to stamp 'approved' on whatever crazy religious agenda the president wants to push on us. Not to ally themselves with the president, rather to - by nature - oppose him. Their job is not to decide if something is morally right or wrong. Simply to decide if a law restricts freedoms that should be protected.
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Scalia was approved by a previous Congress...not the sitting Congress. The Supreme Court has but one job and that is to determine what law does or does not fall within the frame work of the Constitution. Scalia is...as are all Supreme Court Justices entitled to their view of what law does or does not fall within the frame work of the Constitution within his apparent conservativism. If the Court was composed of Justices that did not have different interpretations of the Constitution the Court would be a "rubber stamp" approval or disapproval...body. In addition...every President...pushes their own agenda...nothing new about this...and your statement of "crazy religious agenda"...is your opinion.