mMerrick Garland, Obama's Court Pick, is the EPA's Favorite Judge
March 16, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
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That's a great thing if you believe the judiciary should be a tool of an imperial presidency wielding unlimited and illegal power over all aspects of human life in the name of "saving the planet". Not so much if you have a manufacturing job or work for a living in general. Or like products to be affordable.
Obama's pick of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court is getting mixed reviews. On the plus side, he isn't the devil. We're not talking incompetent left-wing radicals like Sotomayor or Kagan who can barely be trusted to read the Constitution without using it as tissue paper. Garland has a legitimate legal background. He's not just there because Valerie Jarrett liked having tea with him.
Garland is a moderate and Jarrett and the angrier voices in Obama Inc. were probably opposed to this pick and only went along with it because Senate Republicans rejected any nomination. So the left's gamble here is that if Garland gets humiliated, they won't lose one of their own. If he gets in, Obama wins another one. And with a Hillary win looking increasingly likely, GOP senators may fold.
So what about Merrick Garland?
In some ways this resembles what happened when Schumer forced Bush to pick Michael Mukasey for Attorney General. Mukasey is a Republican, but Garland isn't far away from him. And both men have a number of things in common and fairly few enemies on both sides of the aisle. So you can see this as a concession. But more likely it's bait for splintering an already splintered GOP.
On the plus side, Garland hasn't been bad on War on Terror decisions. But that appears mainly to be down to a pro-government power bias in general. And that's where we come to his EPA record.
Garland is arguably one of the EPA's favorite judges. And Obama has doubled down on a Big Green Government agenda. Nominating a judge who is a moderate in some areas and who doesn't have a record as a radical activist may be his way of scoring a narrow win for his agenda while ignoring last year's battles. That sort of strategy has been fairly typical for Obama who focuses on momentary battles, setting aside one issue to win another one. Having scored his wins, he would like to lock them in. Garland would be a useful pick in that regard because of his lack of skepticism of government power. His image as a moderate could help create a consensus in favor of Obama's radical changes far better than a genuinely radical judge would.
And so the compromise might very well be a poison pill.
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March 16, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
5
3312
That's a great thing if you believe the judiciary should be a tool of an imperial presidency wielding unlimited and illegal power over all aspects of human life in the name of "saving the planet". Not so much if you have a manufacturing job or work for a living in general. Or like products to be affordable.
Obama's pick of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court is getting mixed reviews. On the plus side, he isn't the devil. We're not talking incompetent left-wing radicals like Sotomayor or Kagan who can barely be trusted to read the Constitution without using it as tissue paper. Garland has a legitimate legal background. He's not just there because Valerie Jarrett liked having tea with him.
Garland is a moderate and Jarrett and the angrier voices in Obama Inc. were probably opposed to this pick and only went along with it because Senate Republicans rejected any nomination. So the left's gamble here is that if Garland gets humiliated, they won't lose one of their own. If he gets in, Obama wins another one. And with a Hillary win looking increasingly likely, GOP senators may fold.
So what about Merrick Garland?
In some ways this resembles what happened when Schumer forced Bush to pick Michael Mukasey for Attorney General. Mukasey is a Republican, but Garland isn't far away from him. And both men have a number of things in common and fairly few enemies on both sides of the aisle. So you can see this as a concession. But more likely it's bait for splintering an already splintered GOP.
On the plus side, Garland hasn't been bad on War on Terror decisions. But that appears mainly to be down to a pro-government power bias in general. And that's where we come to his EPA record.
Garland is arguably one of the EPA's favorite judges. And Obama has doubled down on a Big Green Government agenda. Nominating a judge who is a moderate in some areas and who doesn't have a record as a radical activist may be his way of scoring a narrow win for his agenda while ignoring last year's battles. That sort of strategy has been fairly typical for Obama who focuses on momentary battles, setting aside one issue to win another one. Having scored his wins, he would like to lock them in. Garland would be a useful pick in that regard because of his lack of skepticism of government power. His image as a moderate could help create a consensus in favor of Obama's radical changes far better than a genuinely radical judge would.
And so the compromise might very well be a poison pill.
Share
About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
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