{"id":1340,"date":"2008-10-29T11:55:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2008-10-28T23:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T04:05:59","slug":"those-republican-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Those Republican Leftists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 10 things to argue with in <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122515067227674187.html?mod=rss_opinion_main\">Steven Calabresi&#8217;s op-ed in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>. Let me pick one for the moment. Calabresi appeals to those who are considering voting for Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The net result is that the legal left will once again have a majority on the nation&#8217;s most important regulatory court of appeals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds frightening. Of course, that does suggest that the legal right controls the Courts now.<\/p>\n<p>A point of fact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/29\/us\/29judges.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=print\">61% of judges in the various Courts of Appeal were appointed by Republican presidents<\/a>. And 7 of the 9 Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republicans. The fact that these Courts are now regularly called &#8220;leftist&#8221; seems to tell us more about how far the Republican party has moved than it does about the political leanings of the justices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 10 things to argue with in Steven Calabresi&#8217;s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Let me pick one for the moment. Calabresi appeals to those who are considering voting for Obama: The net result is that the legal left will once again have a majority on the nation&#8217;s most important regulatory court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,22,45],"tags":[926,925,298],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-election-2008","category-mccain","tag-courts","tag-steven-calabresi","tag-wall-street-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-lC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}