High drama on the high court

President George W. Bush's Supreme Court nominee should not be a liberal, a conservative, or a moderate. Instead, he should nominate a strict constructionist. This would be a justice who reads "Congress shall make NO law. . . abridging the freedom of speech" and finds campaign advertisement restrictions unconstitutional. This would be a justice who reads "nor shall private property be taken for PUBLIC use, without just compensation" and rules it unlawful for a city to take your house and give it to a strip mall developer. Finally, this would be a justice who cannot find the words "privacy" or "abortion" in the Constitution and who, upon reading "[t]he powers not delegated to the United States..., nor prohibited by it..., are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people", rules that abortion is not a federal issue but rather one for each of the 50 states and their citizens to decide

[Letter to the Editor - Detroit Free Press - Submitted 07/07/2005]