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Remarks of U.S. Senator Barack Obama on the nomination of Justice Janice Rogers Brown June 08, 2005 Remarks as Delivered The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois. Mr. OBAMA. I thank the Chair. I rise today to speak on the nomination of California Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, let me begin by saying that the last thing I would like to be spending my time on right now is talking about judges. I am sure that is true for many in this Chamber. I know that I certainly do not hear about filibusters...

Janice Rogers Brown! John McCain picked CONSERVATIVE Governor Sarah Palin, which makes me think that he might tend to pick a woman (plus she's a minority) for SCOTUS judicial pick, and more importantly an ORIGINALIST justice. The main thing we have to worry about, though, is that the Dems don't get a Supermajority in the U.S. Senate. A good reason to vote for Republicans running in the U.S. Senate race!

By Charles Babb For The Christian Chronicle SEARCY, ARK. — Attacks leveled at those of faith represent a great threat against America, a federal appeals court judge said at Harding University. Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a member of the Silver Spring, Md., church, spoke on “Faith and Freedom” as part of Harding’s American Studies Institute lecture series. “In my view, Christianity at its best is the foundation of reason and liberty,” said Brown, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “The true American religious tradition, the one that disciplines power, subjugating it to...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named Carol A. Corrigan to the California Supreme Court this morning, replacing an ideological conservative with a judicial moderate. Corrigan is a former prosecutor, former Democrat and self-described centrist who will replace the notable conservative Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who left last summer to take up a presidential appointment to a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. "She's a brilliant jurist," Schwarzenegger said today, referring to Corrigan as "classy," "experienced" and "knowledgeable." Corrigan, 57, becomes the sixth Republican on the court. One justice is a Democrat. Corrigan's appointment leaves no African Americans on the state's...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named San Francisco appellate judge Carol Corrigan to the California Supreme Court on Friday, deciding on a moderate Republican and former prosecutor to fill the post of conservative jurist Janice Rogers Brown. "This is the best of the best that we have in the state," Schwarzenegger said during a Capitol news conference called to introduce her. Corrigan, 57, a Republican sitting on the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, succeeds Brown, who resigned in June after the U.S. Senate confirmed her to the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. Brown was the only...

Six-year-old Janice swept the porch of her grandmother's home in Luverne, Ala. "Whatever you're going to be in life, you be the best," her grandmother, Beulah Allen, admonished. "If you sweep floors, do it so well that when you finish they'll say that you swept floors the best and cleanest they've ever seen! Ten years later, they'll still be talking about what a good job you did." Resting on a bench, Janice contemplated the lively conversations and debates she heard on that porch. In the 1950s, African-American families in Alabama had a great deal to talk about. Jim Crow was...

At least that's the word I got from the friend of someone who knows someone in the WH who knows. Okay, I realize this is not a great source -- so please go easy -- but it does sound plausible and a great way for the White House to honor Rosa Parks, an authentic african-american heroine, by nominating Janice Rogers Brown as the first african-american woman to the Supreme Court.

President Bush neared a decision on a new nominee for the Supreme Court as Republican lawmakers suggested Sunday he should pick a solid conservative with a track record as a judge. But the Senate's top Democrat raised the possibility of "a lot of problems" if Bush settles on federal appeals judge Samuel Alito to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a swing voter on abortion and other social issues.

Survey: Brown Favorite Among Conservatives; Miers Did the Right Thing Posted By Bobby Eberle On October 28, 2005 at 7:22 am A survey motivated by the withdrawal of Harriet Miers’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, shows that an overwhelming majority of respondents feel that Miss Miers “did the right thing” by removing her name from consideration. In addition, survey respondents greatly favored Judge Janice Rogers Brown when asked who the next nominee should be. The overnight survey conducted by GOPUSA of over 1,000 primarily conservative Republicans shows that 72% believe Miss Miers did the right thing by withdrawing her...

Senator George Allen (R-VA) named names Thursday when asked by Fox News to suggest viable replacements for the now withdrawn Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Allen mentioned Judges Michael Luttig, Karen Williams, J. Harvey Wilkinson, and Janice Rogers Brown as potential nominees. Luttig, Williams, and Wilkinson serve on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals covering Allen’s home state of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Luttig has served on the Fourth Circuit since 1991. He had previously served as a law clerk for Antonin Scalia, when Scalia was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for...

When Harriet Miers, essentially an unknown in the legal world, was nominated for the US Supreme Court, this writer’s first reaction was that either President Bush has had the proverbial ace up his sleeve, or he is being extremely foolish. It now looks as if the latter possibility was correct. First it was the fact that she was unknown, and had no reputation as a judge or scholar to evaluate her by. That might have been a plus, except that things began to appear, rather like the Clinton era bimbo eruptions. Miers’ background began to look rather shady. Her implication...

Just heard Tony Snow on a local radio show on 55KRC in Cincinnati (he's from this area) prior to his own show. He listed candidates for SCOTUS, but he put Janice Rogers Brown at the bottom of the list. He felt that it would be great entertainment like the Jerry Springer Show, but not very edifying as a Constitutional exercise.

My thoughts on Miers and Janice Rogers-Brown: Janice Rogers-Brown!!! it's first and goal from the one inch line (AGAIN) "Harriet Miers nomination called back for unsportsman like conduct towards the conservatives who elected you President Bush." "Replay first down..." "Janice Rogers-Brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sweep right on two...." Not only is she well-qualified, but she will win her own public relations battle through her own words... without any assistance necessary from ANYONE! This also brings the radical hate groups like michael moore & moveon.org, etc., and blame American first senators like john kerry, joe biden, barabara boxer, hillary clinton and company into play....

In light of the decision today by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to withdraw her nomination, Vermont Renewal, Vermont's premiere pro-family, traditional values organization in Vermont, would like to express our firm support for the President should he decide to nominate D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Janice Rogers Brown. Kevin Blier, Executive Director of Vermont Renewal, said, "Our support for Brown hinges on her judicial philosophy based on sound, fundamental core legal principles, such as a firm respect for a judge's proper role in our constitutional framework, the rule of law, and a commitment to restoring the courts...

Thank you. I want to thank Mr. Schlangen (fondly known as Charlie to my secretary) for extending the invitation and the Federalist Society both for giving me my first opportunity to visit the City of Chicago and for being, as Mr. Schlangen assured me in his letter of invitation, "a rare bastion (nay beacon) of conservative and libertarian thought." That latter notion made your invitation well-nigh irresistible. There are so few true conservatives left in America that we probably should be included on the endangered species list. That would serve two purposes: Demonstrating the great compassion of our government and...

Thank you. This has been a wonderful evening and I congratulate all of the participants. I would like to thank William (“Chip”) Mellor and Clint Bolick for inviting me to join you — even though it is August. Just knowing that such a conference exists is a refreshment to my spirit. It is not often that I am in the company of so many people who speak my language. I appreciate Mr. Bolick’s kind introduction and I applaud the Institute for laboring to keep alive an authentic conversation about the core principles of our regime. It is not an easy...

Normally, a judicial confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee — even one that promises to be contentious — starts out with a few niceties. A senator from the nominee's home state says good things about him or her, the chairman asks the nominee's family to stand and be recognized, a few compliments are spread around — that sort of thing. Then the bloodletting gets under way.

Ok, Harriet Miers has withdrawn. Who will be next? Whom should Bush nominate? Make your choice!

just breaking!!!!!!!!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3105/808/1600/janice%20rogers%20brown.jpg MIDI - MRS. BROWN YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER Janice Rogers Brown, your back is covered Judges wise as you are something rare We've been waiting...we won't wait anymore We'll stand behind George Bush and smack RATS to the floor Janice Rogers Brown, your back is covered We are more than ready for the fight We've been waiting...we won't wait anymore We'll stand behind George Bush and smack RATS to the floor Our culture war, we are set to win We'll all lock and load and let the games begin Janice Rogers Brown, your back is covered Chuckie Schmuckie...

Now is not the time to try to avoid a fight, now is the time to make the Democrats put all their cards on the table. As the Democrats threaten to filibuster the President if he chooses to nominate a Judge who is too conservative, I say make them. The worst thing Bush can do now is to back down and nominate a moderate. If the Democrats put up a big fight, maybe just maybe it will give the GOP the balls next time to fight a liberal judge nominee. The spineless GOP let ACLU lawyer liberal extremist Ruth Bater...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has a new chief justice in John Roberts, it is time to get down to the money pick – who replaces Sandra Day O'Connor. I predicted on my show this last week that in all probability that announcement could come by today. I hope it does. I am weary of the court-nominations issue. I want them resolved. And I want us as a nation to clean up from the hurricanes, renew our vigor in stopping illegal aliens from crossing the borders and, much to the environmentalists chagrin, build a few dozen more oil refineries....

She's the Right Radical by Roger Pilon Roger Pilon is vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies. How much longer can we go on playing constitutional pretend — pretending that there's a serious connection between the Constitution and so much of what passes today for "constitutional law"? Rarely faced head-on, the question arises on the few fortunate times when we're presented with a judicial nominee who's been so bold as to publicly doubt the connection. At the moment that's Janice Rogers Brown. The pretend game is especially well-played by "moderates"...

WASHINGTON — As John Roberts heads toward expected confirmation as chief justice, President Bush is under mounting pressure to nominate a woman or minority with conservative credentials to fill a second vacancy on the Supreme Court. Bush will meet with Senate leaders today to discuss the Roberts confirmation vote, which is expected next week, and the process to select a judge to replace Sandra Day O'Connor. Bush has pledged a "wide-open" search for a nominee, including consideration of minority candidates. Many Republicans and interest groups want Bush to choose a woman, preferably one aligned ideologically with religious conservatives. "I have...

The White House is reshuffling its short list of potential Supreme Court nominees with a new emphasis on finding someone who will hold up under the pressure of what is expected to be fierce confirmation battle, several Republican allies close to the process said on Monday. ...The shift also indicates that the administration expects some Democrats' pent-up frustration with what they labeled as Judge Roberts's evasiveness to spill over into the hearings for a new nominee. Republican aides briefed on the search said the White House ...is examining the contenders anew in the expectation of a trial by fire. Conservative...

Janice Rogers Brown's Record California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown was first nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in July 2003. (Confirmed in June 2005) The D.C. Circuit is thought of as "second only to the Supreme Court in influence over law and policy in this country," according to the Alliance for Justice. "Unlike other regional courts of appeals, Congress has conferred on the court concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction over the interpretation of many federal statutes and over the validity of regulations issued by executive agencies. As a result, D.C. Circuit not...

San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court begins its 2005-06 term Tuesday one member short following the June departure of Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who left to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Brown's departure paves the way for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill perhaps his most important post. At the request of Schwarzenegger, a State Bar evaluation committee is reviewing Justice Vance Raye of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, and Justice Carol Corrigan, of the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco.

...Elevating Judge Roberts to Chief was a logical decision, both politically and on the merits. The Senate and media have been investigating the nominee since July, and have found superlatives with nary a negative. The Judge is in a position to be rapidly confirmed.... More importantly, what we have learned about Judge Roberts suggests that he shares Chief Justice Rehnquist's judicial philosophy. If Mr. Bush now follows with the nomination of an equally distinguished conservative for the Court's second opening, the Roberts Court will be able to continue the legal restoration that the late Chief Rehnquist began.... That historic mission...

Time to elevate Janice Rogers Brown to the chief Justice position on the Supreme Court! Your comments please!!

Per CNN...

...Mr. Lord is at pains to note that, although Judge Smith is less known than other judicial nominees who have come under "borking" assault -- think of William Pryor, Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown and Charles Pickering -- his experience offers a kind of template of abuse: Activist groups unearth whatever harmful details they can find, no matter how dubious; they gin them up into screaming charges; the charges in turn get picked up by reporters, eager to keep pace with a potential "controversy," and by politicians, eager to find any stick with which to beat a "dangerous" nominee from...

For Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's a time for choosing: Who will get his nod to replace Justice Janice Rogers Brown, the champion of limited government who has left the California Supreme Court for the federal appellate bench in Washington D.C.?[snip]Schwarzenegger will best serve the law and the public by finding someone equally driven to rein in the regulators, someone who shares Brown's belief that "courts must be especially vigilant, must vigorously resist encroachments that heighten the potential for arbitrary government action." [...[snip] Janice Brown takes property rights seriously. Unfortunately, she was often a dissenter in property rights cases. Indeed, California...

THE WESTERN FRONT The ReplacementsWhy not Justice Janice Rogers Brown?BY BRENDAN MINITERTuesday, July 5, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT Forget about Social Security, tax reform and federal spending. With Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation, Washington now has its summer project, and it's going to be a long, hot slog to its completion. President Bush isn't expected to reveal his candidate until next week. Until then, step one for Washington insiders, lobbyists, special interests and elected officials is to speculate and try to influence the president's decision. To that, there's only one thing to say: Good luck. The president already has a...

It was inevitable. George W. Bush was eventually going to nominate a Supreme Court justice. The resignation of Sandra Day O’Connor is the moment the right wing have been waiting for. Actually they didn’t sit around waiting. They made it all happen when they stole the 2000 presidential election. Bush may be inarticulate and suffering from some sort of learning disability but he is a very shrewd politician. Just as Thomas was a replacement for a black justice, O’Connor’s replacement will probably be female and to add icing to the cake may also be black. ... Many years have passed...

In the coming months, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will have his first shot at filling a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, a choice that could give moderates a solid majority or continue the court's longtime conservative tilt. The influential seven-member panel has the final word on the vast majority of cases brought in California, including the emotional decision, expected soon, on whether same-sex marriage should be legal. His selection will replace Janice Rogers Brown, a conservative who left to join the federal bench. But Schwarzenegger's pick is not expected to generate the kind of controversy boiling over a replacement for...

The nation's biggest legal challenge today, however, is shaping our criminal justice system into a tool that can be used to dismantle terrorist networks while leaving our civil liberties intact. It's no secret that our legal system is a problem. It's one reason why terrorism cases are steered away from federal courts in New York City. Terrorists have a reasonable shot at making a mockery of the justice system. Zacarias Moussaoui has proven just how weak our court system is. during the penalty phase. Mr. Gonzales, of course, is thought to be on the short list of candidates for the...

The Supreme Court circuis is coming to town Thomas Lifson July 5, 2005 The Supreme Court bans television cameras from its public sessions on the ground that it does not want its proceedings to become a “circus.” Whether the august Court likes it or not, the struggle over the replacement to be nominated for retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be a circus beyond the wildest dreams of American showman P.T. Barnum. Barnum is best remembered for supposedly saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” The biggest immediate political question raised by the forthcoming hearings is which political party will...

EVALUATING STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISTS. How to Judge by Jeffrey Rosen Post date 11.22.04 | Issue date 11.29.04 [Sandra Day O'Connor said today that she is resigning from the Supreme Court. Last November, TNR published this guide to the possible replacements.] During his postelection press conference, President Bush made it clear that he intends to appoint a reliable "strict constructionist" to replace the ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist if and when he retires. According to administration officials, there are eight candidates on Bush's short list, all of whom fit the bill. Senate Democrats will try to distinguish between conservatives and moderates...

Sen. Joe Biden said Sunday that if President Bush nominates recently confirmed Circuit Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats will launch a filibuster. "If [Bush] sent up Edith Jones, I could assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight - and she would probably be filibustered," Biden told CBS's "Face the Nation." In the next breath Biden corrected himself, saying, "I misspoke, I misspoke. Janice Rogers Brown is what I meant to say." Asked whether that would break the Senate's much heralded compromise last month not to...

Sen. Joe Biden said Sunday that if President Bush nominates recently confirmed Circuit Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats will launch a filibuster. "If [Bush] sent up Edith Jones, I could assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight - and she would probably be filibustered," Biden told CBS's "Face the Nation." In the next breath Biden corrected himself, saying, "I misspoke, I misspoke. Janice Rogers Brown is what I meant to say." Asked whether that would break the Senate's much heralded compromise last month not to...

She is female...She is Black...She is a Conservative...She is a Constructionist...She is a Christian...She was confirmed to the appealate court by this Senate by a vote of 56-43 only a few weeks age...She is hated by every left wing group and Rat in America. So you gotta love her See her impressibe bio at: http://www.nationalmorality.com/index_files/Page1404.htm

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: To Indianapolis. Mary Jean, welcome to the program. Nice to have us with us. CALLER: Rush, it's such an honor. Thank you for taking my call. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: First person I thought of when I heard Justice O'Connor was retiring was John McCain and his comments on Meet the Press a couple weeks ago. He basically said, "Tim, with all due with respect it isn't going to be 55 Republicans and 45 Democrats. It's going to be 14 senators that decide this." RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: And it made me sick. And I want to just...

SAN FRANCISCO Janice Rogers Brown ended a nine-year career today on the California Supreme Court. She leaves behind a legacy of pithy dissents and abrasive comments targeting her court colleagues while at the same time writing the most majority opinions. The most conservative member of the state's highest court is heading east to sit on the U-S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The daughter of an Alabama sharecropper, the 56-year-old Brown is an outspoken Christian conservative from the segregated South who supports limits on abortion rights and corporate liability. She also routinely upholds the death penalty and...

Please Join California Black Republican Council, Sacramento Research & Policy Institute of California California Black Chamber of Commerce Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce Coalition for California’s Future 100 Black Men of Sacramento Republican Women’s Caucus Community Renewal Project In Honoring Justice Janice Rogers BrownPresidential Appointee to the US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Monday, June 27, 20055:30 pm to 7:00 pm The Sutter Club 1220 9th Street, Sacramento RSVP to 419-8120 by Friday, June 24th Space is Limited!!!!

SAN DIEGO — In the minds of many liberal Democrats, Hispanics and African Americans must seem to come in only two varieties: deferential or defective. And according to one angry caller — who was, from the sound of it, perfectly at home in a blue state — I fall into the second category. "I think you're deluded," he said, "and maybe insane." I'm just guessing, but something tells me the caller would probably say the same thing about Janice Rogers Brown, who two years ago was nominated by President Bush to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of...

Goodness gracious, she dared say it and the New York Times – the voice of collectivism in the U.S. – and all its Marxist allies are aghast. An appointee to the federal judiciary, no less, dared to describe the New Deal for what it was: a socialist revolution. For this egregious offense she must be pilloried and cast into the outer darkness inhabited by those who offend the mighty Times, whose omniscience must never be questioned and before whom all right-thinking Americans must cower in humble obeisance. In retribution for her lese majeste, Justice Janice Rogers Brown – now, by...

To get a starkly disturbing idea of how deeply American liberals have failed in understanding, honoring and executing the Founders' republican mission, all one has to do is, amazingly, look at the front page of last Thursday's New York Times. David D. Kirkpatrick offers a stellar profile of Janice Rogers Brown, a black "daughter of Alabama sharecroppers" finally confirmed the day before by the Senate to sit on the D.C. federal appeals bench. Given the liberal bent of The Times, it would be easy to read the headline -- "Seeing slavery in liberalism" -- in the mocking tone that one...

Confirmation of Janice Rogers Brown to a federal judgeship Wednesday set in motion the official search for the person who will become one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's most important appointees - Brown's successor on the California Supreme Court. Some court and Capitol observers are pointing to two African American state Court of Appeal justices as possible choices - moderates Vance Raye, a Republican from Sacramento, and Candace Cooper, a Democrat from Los Angeles. Brown currently is the only African American on the seven-member state Supreme Court - in fact, she's the only African American holding any statewide office. Schwarzenegger's pattern...

WASHINGTON, June 8 - Janice Rogers Brown, the African-American daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who was confirmed Wednesday to the federal appeals court here, often invokes slavery in describing what she sees as the perils of liberalism. "In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery," she has warned in speeches. Society and the courts have turned away from the founders' emphasis on personal responsibility, she has argued, toward a culture of government regulation and dependency that threatens fundamental freedoms. "We no longer find slavery abhorrent," she told the conservative Federalist Society a few years ago. "We embrace it."...