Christians See Court Appointments as Top Bush Aim
Fri Nov 5, 2004 12:13 PM ET
By Alan Elsner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Christian conservative leaders say their top priority in President Bush's second term is the appointment of conservative judges to the Supreme Court and throughout the judicial system.
"We have high hopes of changing the judiciary. Every judicial appointment that President Bush makes will make the courts less radical and more in tune with the voters who turned out in Tuesday's election," said Gary Bauer, a prominent Christian conservative leader and president of American Values, a conservative pressure group.
Here's the problem. The courts will be less in tune with 48% of the people that turned out in Tuesday's election…frankly, the ideological split on the Supreme Court mirrors that of the nation quite nicely.
