tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post112836326073259497..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Force the Argument on JudgesHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1128378381201285472005-10-03T18:26:00.000-04:002005-10-03T18:26:00.000-04:00I think he's pretty much right, except for the thi...<I>I think he's pretty much right, except for the thing about the second amendment.</I><BR/><BR/>No he's not. We had Marines back when the people who wrote the Constitution were still in charge. Corporate law is almost entirely state law, not federal. UN resolutions? He's got some bizarre interpretation of the treaty clause that no one else has ever heard of, I suppose. As far as I understand it (which ain't far, I admit) originalists take a *more* restrictive view of how international agreements are to be negotiated.<BR/><BR/>Here's the one big change we were hoping for with originalism: a return to a sane federalism, and the continutation of the development of a restrictive view of the Commerce Clause. I don't want to speak for my fellow RCers, but I am not in favor of conservative judges legislating *my* policy preferences from the bench. I am in favor of giving power back to the state legislatures from which it's been stolen for the past 75 years.Kathy Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851875819094837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1128373999181575712005-10-03T17:13:00.000-04:002005-10-03T17:13:00.000-04:00I'm not drawing the same conclusions that you are ...I'm not drawing the same conclusions that you are on this one, T. Big surprise. I think you take originalism to a bizarre literalism.Hunter Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.com