{"id":127,"date":"2005-09-06T16:48:38","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T20:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-08-17T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T16:32:57","slug":"more-on-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"More on Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day George Will<\/a> raised his lance and charged at full gallop at the straw effigy of Charles Schumer, ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee. Mind you, this committee, the one that gets to hold hearings on John Roberts, the President\u2019s nominee for the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, like every other committee in the House of Representatives or the Senate, is dominated by *Republicans*. Will\u2019s rhetorical questioning of the minority representative Schumer about *his* legal philosophy, with its consequent lampooning of the actions of Congress, ridiculous snippets from some of the \u201cliberal\u201d Justice\u2019s opinions, and series of \u201cquestions\u201d about non-literalist legal hermeneutics is prima facie moronic: Schumer is not on trial here; Schumer doesn\u2019t sit on the Supreme Court; Schumer didn\u2019t write the opinions of the Justices Will lampoons; Schumer isn\u2019t even in the majority party. If Will means to question Schumer\u2019s competence as a Supreme Court candidate, then perhaps he should wait until such time as he is nominated; if Will means to question the competence of a public official, then perhaps he can do so in a less undergraduate way\u2013Schumer might very well have good answers to Will\u2019s inane questions\u2013motivated as they are by the selective and therefore untenable constitutional literalism favored (when it suits them) the Justices Will admires\u2013but never are Schumer\u2019s actual pronouncements presented. That said, Schumer might actually be incompetent (though that would still not disqualify him to sit next to Orrin Hatch), it\u2019s just that on Will\u2019s argument, we\u2019ll never know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day George Will raised his lance and charged at full gallop at the straw effigy of Charles Schumer, ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee. Mind you, this committee, the one that gets to hold hearings on John Roberts, the President\u2019s nominee for the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme … Continue reading More on Law<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}