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Obama and the Supreme Court
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, October 29, 2008 [image] Obama and the Supreme Court [Ed Whelan] On NRO s home page today is my essay, Obama and the Supreme Court: ...

Obama and the Supreme Court -- from "living constitution" to monster constitution
Power Line — Ed Whelan takes a look at the consequences of an Obama victory for the Supreme Court. The consequences aren't pretty. Some conservatives downplay the likely impact of an Obama victory, noting that the judges he is most likely to replace are liberal devotees of a "living Constitution." Whelan has several responses. First, the Court needs to improve and can't unless McCain wins. In Whelan's view, with the Court as it is now constituted there may very well be "five votes for, say, the imposition of a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage, five ...

Obama And The Supreme Court … What’s Really At Stake
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — By Edward Whelan - (National Review) If America’s citizens care to wake up and pay attention before they elect as president a sweet-talking, moderate-posing left-wing ideologue with a history of alliances with anti-American radicals, one of the several matters they ought to think seriously about is the future of the Supreme Court. Simply put, the survival of the historic American experiment in representative government will be in serious jeopardy if Barack Obama is our next president. Our Constitution establishes a constitutional republic, a system ...