The Obama Supreme Court Pick Shows the Incredible Double Standard- Catholic and Otherwise

Creative Minority Report has a good post up. See Dude, Where's My Judge?

Pro-Ecclesia adds some thoughts that are similar to my own in his comments on this post at Conservatives, Liberals, and Supreme Court Picks

However there is a flip side to some trusting not trusting Republicans to put up Conservative judges. Why should they trust us conservative to back them up?

I suspect many in Republican White Houses don't trust the conservative electorate to use their full power power to get very conservative picks through.

A Supreme Court pick uses up political capital and well they do the calculus.

Lets face it without the gang of 13(which many conservative were complaining about but now looks likes a political blessing) Alito might not have got on the Court.

When Republicans have that much trouble getting those quality minds on the bench I feel for them.

So I don't expect them to be able to get a Scalia up there all the time.

Everyone recall the Bork nomination ? While people might complain about O"Conner (which I actually thought was a reasonable pick by Reagan) where were they at with Bork? When the conservative electorate can't convince Conservative Democrats Senators (Like Breaux and Bennett Johnston) to vote for picks like that it spells trouble. Especially since there are a lot fewer Breauxs and Johnston nowadays.

That being said it is frustrating. More Liberal nominees can voice their views all over the place. Look at Souter. But as to Conservatives they can't. Look at the abortion controversy as an example of that.

As to Clarence Thomas(And Bush I needs credit for that one) before there was the Anita Hill controversy there was the Natural Law controversy. Thomas said a few words about Natural Law and Biden and the media made him look like he was going be legislating via Thomas Aquinas.

It is again a frustrating double standard.

From a Catholic viewpoint there are other frustrations. The Catholic left that is often going (BUT BUT WE STILL HAVE ABORTION) do very little to help get these pro-life looking nominees through when it is a Republican(Can anyone recall a Op-ed at the National Catholic Reporter saying ROBERTS GOOD PICK) and when a Democrat is in they flex no muscle to get someone anyone that appears to think moderate restrictions on abortion are ok. They don't even go through the efforts. But it is we Catholic Conservatives that are to blame for some reason 100 percent in the Catholic blog sphere and other places because Roe has not been overturned yet.

Update See The Catholic Left and Catholic Right Need To Come Together On Judges