{"id":4932,"date":"2010-04-22T18:11:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2010-04-22T18:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:11:23","slug":"judging-philosophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4932\/judging-philosophies\/","title":{"rendered":"Judging Philosophies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reason Magazine\u2019s<\/em> Damon Root pens a <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/22\/fit-to-judge\" target=\"_blank\">spirited argument<\/a> for ridding judicial nomination hearings of their pretended denials of litmus tests.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s time for both sides to come clean about the importance of judicial philosophy. That means no more grandstanding about \u201copen minds\u201d and double standards. If Constitutional interpretation matters\u2014and it most certainly does\u2014then senators have an obligation to query each and every nominee about it and vote accordingly. That\u2019s the only way we\u2019ll ever have a real debate about the Constitution and the courts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.\u00a0 Now, if we could only get a few Senate Judiciary Committee members able to articulate a substantive, coherent judicial philosophy themselves we\u2019ll be on to something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason Magazine\u2019s Damon Root pens a spirited argument for ridding judicial nomination hearings of their pretended denials of litmus tests. It\u2019s time for both sides to come clean about the importance of judicial philosophy. That means no more grandstanding about \u201copen minds\u201d and double standards. If Constitutional interpretation matters\u2014and it most certainly does\u2014then senators have [&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":[144,764,850,1161,1162],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-constitution","tag-judicial-activism","tag-judicial-nominee","tag-judicial-restraint","tag-litmus-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","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=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}