September 5, 2024
The temperature in Phoenix hit 102 F on May 27th. It has made it to triple digits every day since. That’s a streak of 101 days (and counting… meteorologists don’t foresee any end in sight to the streak in the near future). The previous record? 76 days, set in 1993.
I have said repeatedly that the single most important issue in every Presidential election is judicial appointments. After all, Presidents can be booted out of office after four years (and can’t remain in office for more than eight years in any event), where as federal judges can stay in their position for life. Judge Walter King Stapleton, for instance, was nominated to a circuit court judgeship by President Nixon in 1970, and then elevated to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1985. He’s still there.
But climate change is forever.
Maybe it’s time that judicial appointments be relegated to the second-place spot on the list of “most important issues in Presidential elections.”