vulturesrow
06-08-2005, 09:43 AM
George Will:
A ruling that defies labels (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20050608.shtml)
With the parties warring over the composition of the federal judiciary, and with a Supreme Court vacancy perhaps impending, Americans should use the court's end-of-term decisions as whetstones on which to sharpen their sense of the ambiguities in the categories -- ``liberal,'' ``conservative,'' ``activist,'' ``practitioner of judicial restraint'' -- used when judges are discussed. Consider the case arising from the destruction, by agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency, of Diane Monson's home-grown marijuana plants, a case about which the court's two most conservative justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, disagreed.
William F. Buckley:
The Court on High (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/wfbuckley/wfb20050607.shtml)
The Supreme Court did what conservative court-watchers should welcome. It looked the California situation in the face and said: If Congress doesn't like the law, let Congress change it, but don't look to the Supreme Court to improvise on the drug laws.
A ruling that defies labels (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20050608.shtml)
With the parties warring over the composition of the federal judiciary, and with a Supreme Court vacancy perhaps impending, Americans should use the court's end-of-term decisions as whetstones on which to sharpen their sense of the ambiguities in the categories -- ``liberal,'' ``conservative,'' ``activist,'' ``practitioner of judicial restraint'' -- used when judges are discussed. Consider the case arising from the destruction, by agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency, of Diane Monson's home-grown marijuana plants, a case about which the court's two most conservative justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, disagreed.
William F. Buckley:
The Court on High (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/wfbuckley/wfb20050607.shtml)
The Supreme Court did what conservative court-watchers should welcome. It looked the California situation in the face and said: If Congress doesn't like the law, let Congress change it, but don't look to the Supreme Court to improvise on the drug laws.