Patterico's Pontifications

4/27/2016

Mike Lee for Supreme Court

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:53 am



On a day when all you are going to read elsewhere are handwringing think pieces about Trump’s inevitability, let me give you something different. I think any GOP nominee should consider Mike Lee for the Supreme Court.

This is not my original idea, of course. Ted Cruz has said “Mike Lee would look pretty good in a robe.” But it’s an idea I want to see pushed.

I don’t have time to expand on Lee’s virtues this morning, but I recently finished reading Mike Lee’s excellent book The Lost Constitution, and after reading it (and his short e-book attacking the ObamaCare decision) I am confident that he would make an excellent Supreme Court justice. He is every bit as solid as Ted Cruz on constitutional principles, but has a more congenial personality. He would never go wobbly, and would be a perfect replacement for Antonin Scalia. I think Lee has the capability of being one of the greatest Justices in history, on par with Clarence Thomas (whom I consider to be one of the two greatest of my lifetime). And as a U.S. Senator, he has an advantage in the confirmation process.

What’s more, Lee would bring a non-elitist ethic to the Court. He is not a Harvard or Yale guy (he went to Brigham Young University). He has the High Court experience, having clerked for Justice Alito, but he also knows what it’s like to be a business lawyer (albeit one with an appellate specialty). He knows what the political process is like, from his time in the U.S. Senate.

The only “problem” is that his views are well-known and on the record, and therefore subject to attack. But after John Roberts, I think it’s time a president put up someone whose views are not a relative mystery. Whether the President is Ted Cruz or (God help us) Donald Trump, they should consider Lee for the High Court.

More on this when I review the book.

7 Responses to “Mike Lee for Supreme Court”

  1. Ding.

    Patterico (86c8ed)

  2. Of course the Sniveling Coward would never pick him because he endorsed Cruz.

    Patterico (893091)

  3. Cornyn thinks (or wants) Cruz will lose. Maybe Cotnyn wants Trump to nominate him. It’s clear Cornyn wants to stay in DC, and he5 should.

    DRJ (15874d)

  4. It’s about time we put a Mormon on the Supreme Court.

    Go Mormons!

    arik (02de93)

  5. Washington liberals often like to point out that it would be nice of a USSC Justice had come from the legislative world, since they of course see the Court as the uber legislature when they can’t get their agenda through Congress. But somehow I don’t think it would placate any of them if Mike Lee were nominated.

    JVW (eabb2a)

  6. I think this is increasingly an alternate future, where the GOP still exists. If they nominate Trump, it’s dead to me and probably to everyone else, and we’ll have the Near Left versus the Far Left like they do in Europe.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  7. #6

    I think this is increasingly an alternate future, where the GOP still exists. If they nominate Trump, it’s dead to me and probably to everyone else, and we’ll have the Near Left versus the Far Left like they do in Europe.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/27/2016 @ 11:06 pm

    My one hope with obama being elected was that the nation would recognize how bad Democrat/ socialist policies are and it would destroy the democrat party. With the election of trump (another democrat in sheeps clothing), my fear is that an electorate with a rational economic policy would be destroyed

    Joe - From Texas (debac0)


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