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Senator McCain Explains His Judical Philosophy

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Hat-tip to Paul Cassell at the Volokh Conspiracy for the link to the text of Senator McCain's speech on his judicial appointment philosophy. The speech was given today at Wake Forest University and outlines McCain's conservative philosophy of appointing qualified judges to positions in the federal courts. For McCain, qualified judges are those who will apply the Constitution, and the laws of democratically elected representatives, to each case at hand. This would include "people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and the late William Rehnquist" because these were jurists "who knew their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." McCain was particularly careful to point out that his appointments would understand the "clear limits to the scope of judicial power" as well as "the clear limits of the federal power...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).