{"id":3605,"date":"2010-02-04T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2010-02-04T22:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T03:18:48","slug":"two-supreme-court-vacancies-give-obama-chance-to-be-bipartisan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3605\/two-supreme-court-vacancies-give-obama-chance-to-be-bipartisan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Supreme Court Vacancies Give Obama Chance to be Bipartisan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Supreme_Court\/white-house-prepares-possibility-supreme-court-vacancies\/story?id=9740077&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">If the rumors are true<\/a> and Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsberg wind up stepping down from the bench in tandem, President Obama could throw a bone to Republicans and nominate one of their choices.\u00a0 That would almost assure both nominees of confirmation.\u00a0 But since that isn\u2019t likely to happen, it will be interesting to see which Democratic identity group is first in line to claim the seat(s).<\/p>\n<p>But wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if interpretive method were the controlling factor?\u00a0 No matter who is on the current shortlist, it isn\u2019t complete unless it includes Yale law professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.yale.edu\/faculty\/AAmar.htm \" target=\"_blank\">Akhil Amar<\/a>, the prolific author of Originalist constitutional works from a progressive viewpoint.\u00a0 Though I don\u2019t share all of Amar\u2019s interpretations, I welcome the chance to have a brilliant jurist of the Left that agrees with Justices Scalia and Thomas that constitutional interpretation should begin with the text and its meaning at the time it was ratified.\u00a0 Already, Amar is the most cited constitutional law scholar of his generation.\u00a0 It would be nice to see such achievement rewarded with a position where he could put his theories into practice &#8211; and do battle with Scalia and Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the rumors are true and Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsberg wind up stepping down from the bench in tandem, President Obama could throw a bone to Republicans and nominate one of their choices.\u00a0 That would almost assure both nominees of confirmation.\u00a0 But since that isn\u2019t likely to happen, it will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[805,143,717,806],"class_list":["post-3605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-akhil-amar","tag-barack-obama","tag-john-paul-stevens","tag-ruth-bader-ginsberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}