It's like Scalia took the words right out of my mouth.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
Posted on 10/08/2005 7:02:53 PM PDT by RDTF
Edited on 10/08/2005 9:16:37 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
NEW YORK -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday that he had not expected President Bush to nominate him to replace the late William Rehnquist as chief justice. "I'm not even sure I wanted it, to tell you the truth," Scalia told reporters at a media briefing before a gala dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan Bush, who had in the past mentioned Scalia as one role model for an ideal chief justice, passed on Scalia and nominated John Roberts after Rehnquist's death. Scalia said the time he would have had to devote to administering the court as chief justice would have taken away from his thinking and writing.
Excerpt. Story follows at Washington Post
Horrible thought: is everyone sure it was a Sunday subway bombing the Islamists had in mind?
Of Course he didn't.
Nino does not want to be the "Ambassador of Good Will" on the Court.
He want to continue being his big, beautiful, abrasive self and we are all the better for it!!
Imagine that. Scalia knows nothing of her, so he won't pass judgement.
Too bad so many others lack his restraint.
It's like Scalia took the words right out of my mouth.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
didn't supreme court justices use to not say anything to anybody about anything? ... i'd hate to think they were influenced by blabbermouth clinton
You said it.
I don't need to meet her. I know all I need to know (by virtue of not knowing anything) that she is the wrong person at the wrong time for SCOTUS.
You're attempting to draw an equivalence where one cannot be fairly drawn.
Nice try but it won't fly.
The question "What do you think of the nominee?" is differnet from the question "What do you think of the nomination?"
I don't know (and give the benefit of the doubt to) the nominee, due to stealth. I am SERIOUSLY put off by the nomination, due to "stealth", a credible charge of cronyism, and aversion to conservative advocacy (probably the same thing as "stealth")
Wrong. She will give a judicial philosophy. And some specific views. She will not cite how she would rule on specific cases. As she should not.
You're attempting to draw an equivalence where one cannot be fairly drawn.
Wrong again.
It's called restraint. Something sorely missing from the anti-Miers crowd.
Bork had no problem voicing his opinion of the nominee with little information.
"Bork had no problem voicing his opinion of the nominee with little information."
Something wrong with that?
Good grief, when did you become a Bushbot? The point is precisely that we cannot pass judgment on her. THAT IS THE POINT!
Exactly. Why would anyone think Miers is a better choice than Luttig? And what would motivate Bush to nominate such an intellectual lightweight in the first place?
Cut the Bushbot crap. I get sick of that word against those who disagree.
The point is precisely that we cannot pass judgment on her.
But that isn't stopping a whole lot of folks from doing just that.
If you have to ask, there isn't much point in answering why...
Repeat after me.
The nomination process is now at the whim of the Gang of 14.
Several RINOs on the Gang of 14 said they wanted a female nominee to replace O'Conner.
Last I checked, Luttig wasn't female.
Like that? I don't either. But that's the reality.
Bork doesn't sit on the Supreme Court.
Bork could still exercise some restraint until he gets more information about Miers's views.
As could lots of folks on the right.
But I'm beginning to think the folks casting judgement on Miers with incomplete information are more interested in having THEIR views heard instead of hearing those of the nominee.
Scalia has class.
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