Legal Affairs - Kerry's Even Keel

Link: http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2004/feature_strauss_sepoct04.html

If you are thinking of voting for Bush, please read the article linked above and excerpted below...

IN 2000, MANY OF US THOUGHT THAT THE OUTCOME of the election would determine the composition of the Supreme Court. It turned out to be the other way around. The court decided the election, and President Bush has had no chance to affect the court. Whoever is elected in 2004, though, can confidently expect to make three or even four Supreme Court appointments in his first term.

It would be much better, for the law and for the country, if John Kerry, and not George W. Bush, made those appointments. The reason lies in a dynamic that has shaped the two parties' attitudes toward the courts for a generation, and which has been responsible for the intense unpleasantness that has come to dominate the appointments process for the federal judiciary. The Republicans have an agenda for the federal courts, including the Supreme Court. The Democrats do not.