What kind of U.S. Supreme Court would a President Christie strive to create? The most conservative one possible, based on an interview Gov. Chris Christie gave to conservative radio talk show host Michael Medved on Tuesday afternoon.
Christie, a Republican candidate for the White House, ducked a caller’s question about whether gay marriage was really a states rights issue, but answered immediately when asked who he’d appoint to the bench of the highest court in the land; Christie identified an associate justice widely thought to be the court’s most conservative by legal scholars.
“If you want to know the kind of justices to the Supreme Court that a President Christie would pick, you need to look at one seat on the Supreme Court, and that’s the seat of judge Sam Alito,” Christie said.
Christie noted that both he and Alito shared a similar background, having both previously served as United States Attorney for New Jersey, and that picking someone like Alito would ensure that “the judiciary does their job the way their supposed to, which is to interpret the laws, not to make new ones.”
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