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The 99 Percent Solution
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10/31/2008
The 99 Percent Solution
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Barack Obama says that frequently differences in judicial philosophy aren’t going to matter because in “ninety-nine percent of cases [because] the Constitution is actually going to be clear. Ninety-nine percent of the cases, a statute or congressional intent is going to be clear. ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 10/31/2008
Obama's 99% Lie
— corner.nationalreview.com — In an MSNBC interview yesterday, Barack Obama repeated his canard that differing judicial philosophies don't matter in... "ninety-nine percent of cases [because] the Constitution is actually going to be clear. Ninety-nine percent of the cases, a statute ... (more) Obama's 99% Lie

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The Corner on National Review Online:  Re: Obama's 99% Lie

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Re: Obama's 99% Lie
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, October 31, 2008 [image] Re: Obama’s 99% Lie [Ed Whelan] Matthew Yglesias contends that I m completely misrepresenting what Obama is saying [Obama] s not, at all, denying that judicial philosophy is important. He s just making the point that the cases where it comes into play are a minority of the total docket that sits before the federal judicial system. In other words, Yglesias contends that Obama s 99% assertion is not about Supreme Court cases, but about the total federal docket. Yglesias is mistaken. Apart from the fact that Obama s comments in the ...

Judicial Philosophy Matters
TalkLeft — Matt Yglesias takes Ed Whelan to task for taking Barack Obama to task for his statements on the importance of judicial philosophy: While his language is over the top, I think Whelan makes a good point - Obama is clearly avoiding the issue (and 4 days from an election, probably a smart thing.) Obama clearly does intend to discount the importance of judicial philosophy in this interview, and he is wrong when he does so. More. The President's choice of Supreme Court justices is, in my view, the ...

More on: Obama's 99% Lie
The Corner on National Review Online — ... that differing judicial philosophies don t matter in ninety-nine percent of cases [because] the Constitution is actually going to be clear? Or does he explain why he thinks I m wrong? No. Here s the entirety of his update : Ed Whelan has a ...

Ed Whelan Is A Big Ass Baby
Oliver Willis — ... . That’s true if it’s the vice president of the United States down to a intellectually dishonest writer for National Review like ...

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