Speaker Addresses Perceived "Judicial Activism"
The Wabash website has a new post up about the event WCU held last night with Mr. Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice. During his presentation, Levey described the nature of his work and speculated on the future of the Supreme Court, especially considering the strong likelihood that President Obama will have the opportunity to nominate at least one member to the Court.
While discussing the future of the Court in the Obama era, Levey offered the following predictions:
While Levey admitted that it was still too early to see how left Obama would be in his nominations, he felt as though the president’s actions and speech would likely diverge. “I think it’s looking like the way he will compromise is to be very moderate in his rhetoric and liberal in his policy and appointment,” Levey said. Levey thought Obama would likely choose a Mexican or a woman to fill the next open Supreme Court justice position.
As the article notes, WCU Events Coordinator Nick Maraman ‘10 interned for the Committee for Justice in D.C. during the fall 2008 semester and was excited to help bring Levey to campus. As he said in the article:
“I really took up the cause [of judicial activism] last fall, because I think that judicial activism is a problem and it needs to be righted,” Maraman said. “I don’t think that the public understands exactly what it is and what the dangers of it are.”
No doubt after last night’s event, many more people do.
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