Wednesday, July 03, 2002
"They Can't Catch 'Em All"
The Weekly Standard reposted its 1997 article on the anti-English, anti-Pledge of Allegiance Judge Stephen Reinhardt, "The Judge the Supreme Court Loves to Overturn".
The author of piece, Matt Rees, points out just how aggressively Reinhardt pushed his anti-English views in 1995:
When [his Ninth Circuit colleague Alex] Kozinski dissented from a 1995 decision striking down an English-only initiative, Reinhardt did something few other judges would even think of doing: He wrote a separate concurrence to the majority opinion for the sole purpose of assailing Kozinski, the dissenter. "Judge Kozinski's view of the rights of non-English speaking persons would make the Statue of Liberty weep," Reinhardt wrote, evoking the specter of an "Orwellian world" and "Big Brother." Were Kozinski's views ever
implemented, he added, the victims would be "people who are not as fortunate or as well educated as he--people who are neither able to write for nor read the Wall Street Journal" (to which Kozinski occasionally contributes).
Reinhardt's view of jurisprudence concludes the article: "In an average year, he will participate in some 500 cases; of these, the high court will adjudicate only a small fraction. And as Reinhardt--the country's most audacious liberal judge--has been heard to say, 'They [The Supreme Court] can't catch 'em all.'"
If you wonder why a few extreme liberals in the U.S. Senate are blocking virtually all Republican judges, keep in mind that these people think our courts need more judges like Reinhardt.
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