Congratulations on the three segments where Phil Ponce interviewed Justice Stephen Breyer. This is television at its finest and Ed Murrow would have been proud. Bill Clinton sure knew what he was doing when appointing Breyer to the High Court and I truly believe that he should have been Chief Justice.

Justice Breyer is obviously a very charitable man who is unwilling to suggest or even hint that the High Court has become politicized. Naturally, when asked he side-stepped the question. It is highly unlikely that he would utter a disparaging word about any of his colleagues.

However, I truly think that the Court has become politicized thanks to a succession of Republican presidents. They've finally succeeded in producing a Supreme Court that has taken a sharp turn to the right; I shudder to think what the Court would look like if Hainsworth, Carswell and Bork had been successful in getting to sit on the bench of the High Court.

The Citizens v. Federal Election Commission is just one of several where the Court sided with Corporations over the public good. The Court made a landmark decision holding that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited. This 5-4 decision essentially nullified the intent of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly know as the McCain-Feingold Act.

Justice Breyer was one of the four descending justices from this decision, which says volumes about his beliefs and intentions as a jurist.

Thank you for that.

Your regular viewer,

Art Howells

Art, the correct word is "dissenting"!
I shudder to think what would happen to this country if all
the Supreme Court judges were flaming liberals. There needs
to be balance on the High Court. Personally, I'm a big fan of
John Roberts and Clarence Thomas.