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When It Comes to Judges, ?Pragmatic? Means Unprincipled

By ADF Alliance Alert

David Lewis Schaefer writes at the Wall Street Journal: "In a front-page story this past Sunday the New York Times offered a laudatory account of President Barack Obama's likely approach to replacing Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. It was, the paper said, rooted in 'pragmatism.' The Times used the term to signify the absence of an ideological orientation -- as if the president intends to nominate a judge who will approach each case on the basis of the facts peculiar to it. Who could object to that? Yet the term 'pragmatism' means something quite different when applied to jurisprudence from what it connotes as a description of how statesmen should approach particular issues."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).