{"id":11279,"date":"2018-07-17T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11279"},"modified":"2018-07-17T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:18:34","slug":"ten-commandments-of-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-commandments-of-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Commandments of the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n

What is sacrosanct? Whatever advances progressive causes.<\/span><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0<\/span>Right to Left.<\/strong>\u00a0The majority of post-war Republican Supreme Court nominees, who were initially perceived as conservative, turned liberal on the bench (Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Earl Warren), or went from right-wing to center-right or centrist (Warren Burger, Sandra Day O\u2019Connor, Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts). Perhaps the pressures of approval from the liberal social and political culture of Washington, D.C., becomes finally overwhelming. Or justices sense that the liberal media and historians will praise and memorialize a \u201cmaverick\u201d who \u201cgrows,\u201d \u201cmatures,\u201d or \u201cevolves,\u201d while dismissing a \u201crecalcitrant,\u201d \u201chard-core,\u201d or \u201creactionary\u201d justice who remains a strict constructionist. A conservative president perhaps realizes that he will get more praise from the Left than blame from the Right when his malleable nominee bolts and become progressive. The ongoing liberal political reassessments of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush in part came from their nominations of Justices Kennedy, O\u2019Connor, and Souter. Or perhaps as we age we all tire a bit and cave to popular pressures and prefer \u201cto just get along\u201d in our sunset years. Controlling the culture \u2014 and the threat of ostracism from it \u2014 is a powerful tool in massaging political ideology.<\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review What is sacrosanct? Whatever advances progressive causes. 1)\u00a0Right to Left.\u00a0The majority of post-war Republican Supreme Court nominees, who were initially perceived as conservative, turned liberal on the bench (Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Earl Warren), or went from right-wing to center-right or centrist (Warren Burger, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1193,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2VV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":655,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/supreme-court-hypocrisies\/","url_meta":{"origin":11279,"position":0},"title":"Supreme Court Hypocrisies","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Until last week, Chief Justice John Roberts was vilified as the leader of a conservative judicial cabal poised to destroy the Obama presidency by overturning the federal takeover of healthcare. 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