[Lnc-business] A couple things I just noticed

[Joshua Katz]

1.  LNC members are prohibited, for good reason, from running as the
candidates of other parties.  JC members clearly are not, as the bylaws
don't say they are, and in fact, the Presidential candidate of a rival
party was on the JC.  It does seem somewhat odd that as regards fealty to
the party, we require more of the LNC than of those who rule on whether our
decisions are appropriate or not.

2.  Other than going to war, the most permanent change a President makes is
probably Supreme Court appointments.  The first LP President will likely
have fewer such nominations to make than average, since justices attempt to
retire while their party is in office, and no current justices are
Libertarians (or libertarians, for that matter.)  If she were still on the
bench, it is possible O'Connor would have been willing to give her seat to
a Libertarian, as her general trend, philosophically, was economically
conservative and socially liberal..  This was superseded at times by her
desire for narrow rulings and to write opinions that command as large a
majority as possible.  However, I don't think any current justice would
voluntarily retire with a Libertarian in office.

Joshua A. Katz

Region 8 (Region of Badassdom) Alternate
Libertarian National Committee

Chair, Libertarian Party of Connecticut
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