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From Reid Cox:

Senator Biden is now asking Judge Roberts what he personally feels about end of life issues. Here Senator Biden has tacitly admitted that he and the other Democrats and their liberal puppetmasters believe that judges should make decisions based on their personal beliefs and not what the law says. After all, why would Judge Roberts’ personal views be relevant if judges should not let their personal views affect their decisions. To his credit, Judge Roberts is telling Senator Biden that his personal views don’t matter.

Lots More from Reid below the fold.

Senator Biden now makes the analogy that Senators, Presidents and Congressmen have to answer to the public what their views are. Yes they do, they are elected representatives that make the law. But Judge Roberts is a judge. He is not elected. He is not supposed to be accountable to the people. He is supposed to be accountable to upholding the Constitution and laws that “We the People� establish through our elected representatives like Senator Biden. Yes, Senator Biden, you have to tell your constituents what you believe because they are entrusting you with making the laws that will govern all of us. Judge Roberts cannot do the same because he must remain impartial and unbiased in determining whether everyone gets a fair shake under those laws.

One more from Reid on Biden:

I know I keep going on about this, but Senator Biden really brought into black-and-white relief the differences in our views between what judges should and are empowered to do. Senator Biden believes a judge’s personal beliefs are entirely relevant, and ultimately determinative, because he believes that judges are bound by absolutely nothing. In the end, Senator Biden, and the other liberals, believe that judging is itself kabuki theatre, because the liberals believe that judges only have to cite law to sound legitimate while imposing their own personal views as the law. On the other hand, the rest of us, including the founders, believe that judges serve a very different purpose — to safeguard the law and ensure that everyone is subject to the same laws that are legitimate because they were enacted by the people’s representatives. For us, the personal views of judges are irrelevant because understanding the rules that others have enacted has nothing to do with the personal beliefs of the judge.

UPDATE: An apt quote from CNN's Jeff Greenfield: "[Biden] feels compelled to ask the same question five different times and then complain he's run out of time."