Barbara Boxer: “sometimes I think my colleagues have a very strange definition of activist judge. Listening to them, I think if you have…”

“sometimes I think my colleagues have a very strange definition of activist judge. Listening to them, I think if you have a heartbeat and a pulse, they call you an activist. I mean, I--really, listen to them. Are you supposed to nominate a person who has not had a thought in her head, who cannot say, 2 years after an initiative passed, that she thought it was good, bad, or indifferent, who cannot comment on a way to make the initiative process better? They also have a way of selective arguing--selective arguing. In 1988, Margaret Morrow wrote the following. This is directly from an article in 1988, way before she even dreamt of coming before this Senate. Here is what she wrote: Having passed an initiative, voters want to see it enacted. They view a court challenge to its validity as interference with the public will. So here is Margaret Morrow arguing that when the voters pass an initiative, they want it enacted. I see Senator Hatch is here, so when I finish my 2 minutes I am going to yield him his 5 minutes. I want to say that this is a woman whose practice, if you look at it, is far from anyone's definition of being an activist.”