I'm Mike Fitzsimmons with commentary on 920 - KXLY.....

Republican presidential candidate, John McCain gave a speech yesterday at North Carolina's Wake Forest University wherein he described the kind of judges he would nominate as president. McCain promises to appoint judges who are likely to limit the reach of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. He stated that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the models after which he would assess the justices he would choose as his own nominees.

It seldom gets much attention, but the single important issue that sets John McCain apart from either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, is the kind of choices each would make, should they be in a position to appoint one or more new members of the U.S. Supreme Court. How likely is it that the next president may make such appointments? Consider that by the end of the next president's term of office, Justice John Paul Stevens will be 92, Justice Ruth Bader Ginzberg will be 79, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will each be 76, and Justice Antonin Scalia will be 75. Chances are one or more of these members of the highest court in the land will decide to retire, and the next president of the United States will be called upon to nominate their replacements.

That's what makes the 2008 election so critical on many legal fronts. Polls consistently show that activist judges are wreaking havoc with the nation's federal jurisprudence system. Those judges seem to have something in common. They are ideologically liberal, and more often than not, they were appointed by a democrat in the White House. More of them are likely to be placed on the federal bench if Obama or Clinton is elected in November. Fewer of them if McCain becomes president.

Planned Parenthood knows what this election means. That's why they're among several organizations that are spending millions nationwide to defeat John McCain. The media has been preoccupied with the economy and the Iraq war, but make no mistake, the real battleground in campaign 2008 in the end, will be the courts.

With commentary on 920-KXLY, I'm Mike Fitzsimmons