Supreme Court

What Kerry is referring to as "right wing idealogues" are judges who believe the constitutional role of the judiciary is to evaluate laws in comparison to established criteria such as the US Constitution, case law/legal prededent, etc. They don't believe it is the role of the judiciary to create laws. Federal courts have been pirated by the left by politically oriented appointees who have appropriated the position of the courts to further political agendas. This is something Robert Bork opposed, and the coming battle with Scalia will also reveal as being his position. Ofcourse, the media is either too dumb or to partisan to report the actual facts here, rather they will simply repeat democrat mantras over and over again until the public is indoctrinated. Legislators such as Kerry like judiciary appointees who further their agendas because it makes it easier for them to face constituents who might oppose these policies. A lifetime appointed judge can't be run out of office by disgruntled voters.

It was absolutely true that the Bork confirmation hearings were hysterically oriented about Bork being against myriad socially desirable (liberal) conditions and would reverse them if given authority. The fact that went unreported was that Bork was apolitical, his position was not related to the substance of these conditions, but the process by which they were created. In the superficial arena of news reporting, this was simplified into hysterical accusations that Bork wanted to turn back the clock on "progress" or other extreme and specious rants.

Kerry is gearing up to do the same dis-service to this nation once again.