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As President George W. Bush begins his second term in office, many important issues lie before him. Of course, the issue that immediately jumps to everyone's mind is national security—how to keep the country safe from terrorist attacks and what actions to take if any attacks succeed.
But another matter in which the president will likely have to make choices is actually of more preeminent concern. Indeed, it is an issue that may well help determine how safe the country will be in the long run. That pivotal matter is the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Choices that can transform society
Notice what noted economist and author Thomas Sowell stated in a Nov. 4, 2004, column about what was at stake in this past presidential election: "Can you imagine what it would be like to have a . . . liberal [president] filling federal courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, with liberal judges who would be turning more criminals loose for decades to come, as well as repeatedly over-ruling the voting public's right to govern themselves on such things as gay marriage?
"With so many elderly members on today's Supreme Court, the choices of their successors will be historic in their consequences. Those consequences could be tragic if they are replaced with more Justices who think their job is to impose their own pet notions or—worse yet—to be guided by what is in fashion in other countries, instead of what is set forth in the Constitution of the United States that they are sworn to uphold."
Indeed, this is not a mere political issue. It is a decidedly moral issue. The Supreme Court, as the ultimate arbiter of what acts are legal, plays a key role in setting the moral tone of the nation.
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