US Federal Judges Could Hinder Obama's Agenda

[Netto Azure]

Well this has certainly caught my attention. I was reading Newsweek recently, and it made me remember about the Judicial Branch of government which will be the final test of any law that Congress Passes and the President Executes.

We have to remember that over half of the Justices in the US Supreme Court and some in the Federal District courts have been appointed by Conservative US Presidents over the years.

So I guess we'll be back in the 1930's again with the Judicial bruhaha and "Court-Packing" schemes. =/

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189234

Obama's ambitious agenda will be scrutinized and second-guessed by conservative federal judges.

As they charge through the eventful first 100 days, President Obama and his allies are racking up legislative victories. Soon they will have to win the votes of a new audience: men and women in black robes. As the former constitutional-law professor surely knows, that can be a tough crowd. Here's the core constitutional fact: a progressive president and Congress now face a conservative judiciary, for the first time since 1937. Obama's ambitious agenda, if enacted, must go before federal courts—where judges can rewrite or strike down key provisions. From the TARP bank bailout, to climate change "cap and trade," to health-care reform, new laws could face an array of judicial doctrines recently honed by conservative lawyers. We can't know for sure, and carefully crafted laws usually withstand judicial scrutiny. Still, imagine if Hillarycare had passed in 1994. Does anyone think the Rehnquist Court would not have vivisected those parts it found unpalatable?