Here’s Barbara Boxer on why federal judges should need 60 votes to be confirmed:
Why would we give lifetime appointments to people who earn up to $200,000 a year, with absolutely a great retirement system, and all the things all Americans wish for, with absolutely no check and balance except that one confirmation vote. So we're saying we think you ought to get nine votes over the 51 required. That isn't too much to ask for such a super important position. There ought to be a super vote. Don't you think so? It's the only check and balance on these people. They're in for life. They don't stand for election like we do, which is scary.
Besides the fact that Sen. Boxer needs to go back and read her Constitution about “advice and consent” (it doesn’t say anything about supermajorities), if it is “scary” for people who “don’t stand for election like we do” to have life appointments to the federal courts, why then does she and her fellow leftists insist on giving these un-elected scary people the final say over the most important questions facing us such as what is what is human life, marriage, what is human sexuality for, what is obscene, is there a public morality and what role should religion play in public life? Just to name a few. By the way, Senator, Congress can also check the courts by impeachment, constitutional amendment, setting the jurisdiction of the courts, and in cases involving judicial interpretation of federal statute the Congress may simply reword the statute if it does not like the court's interpretation. I invite Sen. Boxer to take my American Government course, because she clearly doesn't know her Constitution.
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