CNN’s Jeffery Toobin Says Past Liberals on Supreme Court are ‘Surprisingly Moderate’

-By Warner Todd Huston

If we needed more proof that CNN’s legal analyst, Jeffery Toobin, is one of the most disingenuous legal minds of our day, the Saginaw News helped us out with that quest. Toobin made an appearance at a Midland, MI event this week where, among other comments, he ridiculously claimed that the left leaning Justices that sit on the Supreme Court are “surprisingly moderate.”

We will remember one of Toobin’s other recent absurdities when he claimed that the GOP likes voter I.D. laws because they “stop Democrats from voting,” despite the fact that all evidence shows that requiring an I.D. has not stopped anyone from voting.

In his remarks in Michigan, Toobin predicted that Barack Obama will eventually become a Supreme Court Justice because the Court “needs that kind of person, that kind of mind.”

One might wonder if the “kind of mind” Toobin means is the kind that would say that Americans who support the Second Amendment and are religious are “bitter”? If THAT kind of mind is something the SCOTUS needs, obviously the Constitution isn’t important to Toobin!

Toobin also tried to raise fears in the audience that if John McCain became president he’d try to fill the court with right-wing fanatics.

He pointed to a little-covered May 6 speech by GOP presidential candidate John McCain, one spoken in code, that indicates McCain will accelerate the court’s conservative bent that the current President Bush began.

What Toobin disingenuously didn’t mention to his audience was the fact that if McCain becomes president, he will have a solidly Democrat controlled Congress (both Houses) and he will not have the power to seat Constructionist or conservative judges.

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