Would you vote to confirm a Communist to the Supreme Court?

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Why would a communist want to be a judge, when he knows he has to apply a document that stands so diametrically opposed to his views?

I would be suspicious of his motives.

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Communist: I don't care about the Constitution.

Kennedy: He seems very qualified.

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Which is why I wouldn't have voted for FDR.

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Why would a communist want to be a judge, when he knows he has to apply a document that stands so diametrically opposed to his views?

"[A] Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory" --Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Yeah, nice job taking a quote dealing with the economic regulatory powers of the states, and applying it to a completely foreign situation.

The powers of the federal government are few and defined. If a communist supports coining money, there might be something for him in the Constitution. There's not much else.

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People's views don't 'get in the way' of interpretation - they create their interpretations.  All these so called judicial theories such as strict constructionism are just methods of making the constitution promote ones ideology. 

Yeah, that's why the three dissenters in Gonzales v. Raich were so liberal.