Posted on 05/03/2009 11:02:24 AM PDT by Gil4
The fundamental constitutional principles articulated in Judge David H. Souter has put the country in an untenable position. He is asking the American people to support his nomination to the Supreme Court without assurances that he will protect our rights once on that court. ...
Roe v. Wade are as critical as those spelled out in Brown. A woman's ability to enjoy all other personal liberties guaranteed by the Constitution - her privacy and her equality before the law - hinges upon her freedom to choose when and whether to have a child. Yet time after time Judge Souter refused to acknowledge every woman's constitutional right to reproductive freedom.
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I'm still waiting for my right to privacy to apply to providing data about my income to the government.
NYT as accurate as always.
Eventually he found some baby killing cases he could go along with, but if it'd included sending Ms.Lichtman to a people's gulag he'd gone along with that too.
Knee-jerk leftists looking a gift horse in the mouth.
See? No one pays attention to what's written in the New York Times.
LOL. We can always count on freepers to provide an appropriately-timed word of wisdom.
Souter was a big mistake especially the Kelo decision. It is too bad that Robert Bork didn’t get on. I saw him speak at one time and he was very funny and interesting unlike what the media made him out to be.
Isn’t it strange that only Republican Presidents make mistakes in judicial nominations? Republicans have put some amazingly liberal justices on the bench, usually while offering quiet “assurances” to grassroots Republicans. I cannot recall a single instance of a Democrat President nominating a judge that turned out to be more conservative than he thought.
Tells us something about our party, does it not?
Actually, to me it tells us something about our creditors.
When compared to Souter, yes. But isn't Bork way off the reservation when it comes to the 2nd Amendment? Or maybe it's search and seizure, I forget which.
Even the judges who register as Republicans have been required to spend years at the institutions of advanced liberal indoctrination (formerly known as higher learning). I think it’s tough to get that far and maintain positions like Bork without reaching a point where you say “To heck with it. We’re doomed. I’m just going to go make enough money to buy me an island.”
I think most either assimilate or quit.
One quote, " One purpose of this book is to persuade Americans that no person should be nominated or confirmed who does not display both a grasp of and devotion to the philosophy of original (constitutional) understanding."
We get fooled again!
Souter is just another of the seemingly endless list of failures of Bush I and Bush II. A couple of guys who thought being nice to dems was the key to a favorable endorsement of history.
Byron White. Look him up.
And also Felix Frankfurter and Robert Jackson.
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