Put Palin on the Supreme Court

Of all the idiotic things I've heard during this campaign -- and the choice of an inexperienced nobody like Sarah Palin has to rank among the most rank -- the notion of putting this moose-belcking right-wing gun'-totin' mama who likely couldn't spell "Supreme Court" to save her life has to be one of the dumbest g*ddamned things I've ever read. I know nothing in Sarah Palin's life qualifies her for the post she depserately desires, but what qualifications does the dumbass who wrote this article have? Is she a childhood friend of Palin's too?

PLEASE -- can we have reasoned, elucidating commentary from people who actually know what the hell they're talking about? Supreme Court. HOMECOMING Court, maybe, but Supreme Court? Please -- give yourself a laxative.

Well so much for rights thet were worked on for years and years, just to be dropped like a bad cold!! womens rights,mmm, nothing to see in the furture!!!

After enjoying the author's commentaries on day-to-day, I didn't expect such drivel. Perhaps I've missed some sort of sarcasm buried deep within this editorial, but the complete disregard for the immense intellectual task of providing the final voice of interpretation of the nation's most pressing constitutions questions is frightening to say the least. The last thing the supreme court needs is another careless headliner arbitrarily suppressing the constitution. Palin's candidacy speaks to the basest of american populist instincts--the anti-intellectual, discourse-closing, photo-op driven desire to ignore the great questions of society. Palin is nothing more than wonder bread, and I hope to god we never see her on any court, yet alone the supreme court.

Excellent satire. It's so good that many leaving comments think you're serious.

People, the point is that Sarah Palin doesn't belong anywhere near ANY arena of government when her record and ideology show that she is willing to trample the Constitution, circumvent legislative and judicial processes, and abuse her executive power in order to get the outcomes she wants. She isn't serious political material. She is a pandering to those basest elements of our electorate - those who would get excited about and vote for her, despite her poor showing in executive trustworthiness and knowledge of the world, simply because she stands for some nebulous 'issue' (whether women's equality or anti-abortionism) they profess to care about.

nice

None of the items mentioned, moral certainty, relatability, and gender, should be considered as important choices for a Supreme Court candidate.

Dahlia Lithwick, you are horrible, please stop writing.

The only people on the supreme court should be those with the highest levels of education of the law, not a journalism degree from a small engineering and agriculture university.

Wow. the fact that your view is supported by someone (below) who would love to take AWAY the rights of many of our citizens, speaks volumes. Call me old fashioned, but I do believe that education and intelligence matter when we're speaking of the highest and most potentially dangerous leadership positions in the free-world. (Emphasis on "free"...sorry WPaulie) This isn't a movie, this is real life, and I don't want my rights, or the rights of my children decided by someone with no experience, no education, no ethics...but, boy, she can talk tough and shoot a gun, so let's put her on the supreme court. There isn't enough room here to describe the many, many flaws in your argument...it would be funny if it weren't so sad.

Brilliant insight. Funny and true. Women, gays, atheists and minorities have far too many rights in this great country of ours. Installing Palin on the Supreme Court would be a good move to rectify this problem.

Palin needs to take care of her own family problems before she takes on the nations problems.





Palin needs to worry about her own family problems before she needs to think about the nations problems.She was so busy being the big wolfe killer she forgot to teach her daughter how to keep her legs together.

In the two weeks since Sarah Palin was announced as Senator McCain's pick for VP, her handlers have allowed her to speak to the press 1 time and after serious coaching sessions. In that same time frame Senator Biden spoke with reporters 54 times. Thankfully the Palin bubble is finally bursting as the public get to see who this person for who she really is despite the McCain camp's best efforts to stifle the truth. Buyer's remorse is setting in. John McCain's judgement is in question as he blew the single most important decision he had to make as a candidate.

Oh, and leave Dahlia Lithwick alone.

On second thought, I take it all back.
PALIN FOR SCOTUS!!!!

What?!!! Sarah Palin is probably one of the most retarded choices for Supreme Court justice ever suggested! Supreme court justice must be able to interpret the Constitution, not the Bible. Loosely espousing Republican bromides couched in the guise of a Jesus freak is not equivalent to Moral certitude.

If anyone at Newsweek is reading this, please fire Dahlia Lithwick for gross negligence.

Don't you need to have some experience as a judge to be on the Supreme Court? Shouldn't you at least have to have a law degree? Wouldn't some knowledge of constitutional law be a little helpful? I have an idea, let's eliminate the need for qualifications and have no standards whatsoever. Better yet, why go to college at all? This would save hard-working parents a lot of money. I truly fear the dumbing down of America.

Don't you need to have some experience as a judge to be on the Supreme Court? Shouldn't you at least have to have a law degree or at least be well versed in constitutional law? If not, why should anybody need a degree to do anything? Let's eliminate colleges and universities - it would save hard-working parents a lot of money. Why should anyone need to be qualified for anything? Just want it enough and the job is yours! I really fear the dumbing down of America.

Lithwicks problem is that it is not her people sitting on the bench. Were they,it would be a creature more in line with the nearly all-liberal 9th US based in Frisco. The most overturned federal court in American history. ''Scofflaws of the law''if you will. Lithwick,in order to rein in all of the Bush administration ''crooks''does not forsee even a WATERGATE-style series of hearings. What this strange specimen desires is a Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal,forgetting that this device has been roundly criticized for its absence of due process[''victors justice''],for decades. Indeed, Nuremberg adopted a rather odd picking and choosing of who would face the hangmans noose,and who would get off scot-free. [A Goering would be an obvious candidate,but a Werner von Braun,who used slave labour and crafted the mass-killing V-I rockets,would go on to become the father of Americas NASA program]. Lithwick thus demands Soviet-like showtrials,slipshod and imprecise in their application,ergo, she is no respector of ''laws'',and can thus be dismissed as a partisan crank.

www.volokh.com The VOLOKH Conspiracy [Law and legal reviews.Archives. ''Lithwick,Dahlia''].

Would you please respect our countries division of the separation of church and state. Women
deserve to have a choice. When will you people join the civilized world?