The legacy of President Bush has gotten a real shot in the arm in the last couple of weeks. As the Iraq war becomes increasingly unpopular in this country and the president’s fight for immigration reform, the thought of a positive legacy for the president was looking pretty bleak. At least as he leaves office. Only history itself will determine the presidents legacy, in the future.
In the past couple of weeks, however, a bright and shining light has appeared in the presidents policies. What is this? The United States Supreme Court. The appointments of Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito have changed the total makeup of the court. The court is now a Court of the Constitution. They no longer look at foreign laws to influence their rulings (at least 5 of them don’t). They have started to apply the Constitution to their rulings instead of trying to find some unknown rational to determine what the Constitution says and, by that, legislating from the bench.
The Court has made great strides in protecting the 1st Amendment Rights of the citizens of this great land. In it’s ruling on “Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.” (docket no. 06-969) the Court ruled that parts of the McCain-Feingold Act were indeed unconstitutional and violated the 1st Amendment. In “Davenport v. Washington Education Association” (docket no. 05-1589) the Court ruled that the Free Speech rights of the individual outweighed the Free Speech rights of the Unions, by saying the the Union had to get the member’s permission prior to using union dues for political reasons.
Then, today the Court made another great ruling in “Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1” (docket no. 05-908). This case involved a girl in Seattle being denied enrollment in her neighborhood High School and being bussed across town to another High School. The reason for this? Why racial diversity, of course. This case was also combined with another case in Louisville, Ky. The case was identical. The only difference between the two cases was, that in Seattle, the student was white and, in Louisville, the student was black. Both were denied enrollment in their neighborhood High Schools and bussed to the other side of town. The Supreme Court ruled that race cannot be used as the sole reason to provide “racial diversity” in the school systems.
There are many more cases that the court have ruled on that defies mainstream liberal ideology and also some conservative ideologies, but are very consistent with the Constitution. President Bush’s nomination of Supreme Court Justices, with the exception of the Harriet Miers fiasco, have been beyond reproach and have started to change the Supreme Court from an “activist court” to one that actually upholds the Constitution of the United States. This will definitely be a great big bright spot in the legacy of President Bush.
~Darter~
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