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Friday, May 20, 2005

Imagine a Left-Wing Extremist Judge

Let's take the following hypothetical situation in which an extreme left-wing judge held the following views:

1) A strong sympathy for the position that there is a constitutional right to prostitution as well as a constitutional right to polygamy.

2) Attacked the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts as organizations that perpetuate stereotyped sex roles and that he had proposed abolishing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and replacing them with a single androgynous Parent’s Day.

3) Called for an end to single-sex prisons on the theory that if male prisoners are going to return to a community in which men and women function as equal partners, prison is just the place for them to get prepared to deal with women.

4) A manifest imbalance in the racial composition of an employer’s work force justified court-ordered quotas even in the absence of any intentional discrimination on the part of the employer (even if this particular person had never hired a single black person out of 50 hires in a predominantly black city).

What do you think would happen to such a nominee whose views are so wacky to the Left that it seems like fiction? To see what would happen in this hypothetical example, click here.