Seeking Justice, Not Political Bias

FRIGHTENING, the number of people who said they voted for Trump because of the Supreme Court. The idea being, of course, that with Trump there will be a conservative court, and with Hillary there would have been liberal one. What horrible thinking, what a horrible attitude, and we must get rid of it. We must stop thinking about good judges in terms of whether they are liberal or conservative, and start thinking about their quality. If anything, we should be seeking out the most verifiably moderate and flexible judges, not the most ideologically biased. Like just about everything else in America, we have it backwards. There even exists, incredibly, an organization entirely devoted to the encouragement of, the advocacy of, the placement of conservative justices on the bench at every level. "Judicial Watch" should be called Judicial Conservative Advocates", and it should be mercilessly ridiculed out of existence. The idea that its better to have conservative judges is nearly as stupid as the idea that all decisions should be rendered based on what we think the framer's of the constitution intended, as written literally in the constitution. What really matters is how we interpret the constitution, not people who have been dead for two hundred years. The criteria for appointment to a judgeship, including and particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, should be the difficulty with which a nominee can be ideologically classified. the more ideologically enigmatic, the better.