Comments on: Supreme Court Meets Tea Party? http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/03/supreme-court-meets-tea-party/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Thu, 24 May 2012 16:31:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/03/supreme-court-meets-tea-party/comment-page-1/#comment-4040 Glynn Wilson Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:31:02 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6586#comment-4040 With any luck, as we say in the biz, let's hope it has legs ... the story that is. With any luck, as we say in the biz, let’s hope it has legs … the story that is.

]]> By: Yana Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/03/supreme-court-meets-tea-party/comment-page-1/#comment-4039 Yana Davis Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:27:55 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6586#comment-4039 It is at least mildly disturbing that a spouse of a Supreme Court justice has chosen to appear in a very partisan setting implicitly supporting a very partisan agenda. Not that spouses of federal judges are supposed to not have political opinions and act on them, but rather to use some common sense about the appropriate ways to do so. Anything that gives the appearance of a federal judge or immediate family supporting a particular partisan agenda tends to lessen confidence in the theoretically impartial nature of the office. But, it's not surprising. It is at least mildly disturbing that a spouse of a Supreme Court justice has chosen to appear in a very partisan setting implicitly supporting a very partisan agenda.

Not that spouses of federal judges are supposed to not have political opinions and act on them, but rather to use some common sense about the appropriate ways to do so.

Anything that gives the appearance of a federal judge or immediate family supporting a particular partisan agenda tends to lessen confidence in the theoretically impartial nature of the office.

But, it’s not surprising.

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