So, Arlen, we're racists are we?
Senator Arlen Specter (RINO-PA), chairman of the judiciary committee, thinks that people who believe that the printed text in the Constitution ought to mean something still yearn for the good old days of slavery.
Mr. Specter, appearing earlier on that program and several others, brought Mr. Bork up repeatedly. "I've been criticized a lot for questioning Judge Bork in one session for an hour and a half," Mr. Specter said, defending his criticism of Judge Bork's emphasis on the "original intent" of the Constitution's framers. "If his 'original intent' stood, we'd still be segregating the United States Senate with African-Americans on one side and Caucasians on the other side."
With friends like this, who needs Ted Kennedy?
Senator Specter should review his Constitution, as he seems to have missed the 13th and 14th Amendments, or not understood them. As for originalists, it shopuld be noted that it was the living-constitution pragmatists who voted for
Plessy not the originalist whose spot-on dissent reads like a roadmap for originalist thought. No way you get to
Plessy's conclusions using the text.
And one has to ask -- if Specter had been on the
Plessy court, which way
he would have voted. Given his track record, starting with the Warren Commission, I'd have to bet on going along over integrity.
Open mouth, insert foot, try to talk way around it. Can he talk his way out of this one? Impacting.
UPDATE: More at
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Posted by Kevin Murphy at July 3, 2005 11:53 PM