Barack and the Supremes.

With the 2012 election the issue that becomes more and more important in any potential election is that the next President might well get to place two to three people on the Supreme Court.

It is an ironic twist that judges elected to be constructionist such as Roberts and Alito have led the way to some of the most precedent reversing decisions of the last century.

Recently we found that now corporations can give as much money as they wish to candidates, a huge boon for Republicans. Today they decided that an Arizona law that gives government funds to balance out contributions in races where one side outspends the other is unconstitutional. I do not know what is right. I do not think the government should be putting money in at all but nor do I think that it should be a case of who has the most money always wins. In no way can this ever help the average citizen.

Last week a class action suit against Walmart was thrown out.

The point is this. Should Obama lose you will see a flood of justices retire when his Republican successor takes office. These will be replaced by young ( so that they can serve more years ) conservatives which will mean that in the next twenty years we will face the spectre of a widening gap between the Court and the country it serves. This is because it is clear that the demographics of this country show where we are headed.

Still an Obama victory is not all good news. He seems to have been an uneffective President appearing to try to fix things in small bites rather than anything brave and big picture.

It becomes more apparent that with the exception of Bush the second there has been no President since Reagan who had a very broad affect on the lives of Americans. And his was clearly a bad affect. Supreme Court justices may well have more long term effect on the lives of Americans. This is a fact we need to remember and consider in 2012 no matter which side of the political aisle we fall on.