Posted on 07/06/2005 3:17:36 PM PDT by FReethesheeples
The link for finding Gonzales outspoken criticisms of fellow Judges Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen is:
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1726
Gonzales is WEAK on PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS. two examples: 1) While he was WH Counsel, the WH sided with the City of New London on the Kelo case, or refused to join on Kelo's side in an amicus brief.
Secondly, a quick search found this case where Gonzalies joned the majority in SHARPLY opposing Janet Rogers Brown's dissent (they were both on the Texas Supreme Court at the time) (Source: People for te American Way, via Google search):
FM Properties Operating Co. v. City of Austin, 22 S.W.3d 868 (Tex. 2000)
Gonzales joined a 6-3 ruling by Justice Baker that struck down a state law that allowed certain private landowners to exempt themselves from municipal water-quality and other environmental ordinances by creating their own "water quality protection zones." The majority ruled that the law constituted an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to private individuals. Owen wrote a vigorous dissent claiming that the majority’s opinion "strikes a severe blow to private property rights." Id. at 889. The majority specifically criticized Owen’s dissent, explaining that most of it "is nothing more than inflammatory rhetoric," and that "the two legal arguments Justice Owen does make are both based on a flawed premise." Id. at 877 (emphasis added).
(Excerpt) Read more at pfaw.org ...
"....and he's damn sure NO friend to gun owners either!!!"
Yes, as documented above and on other threads. Thanks.
"....and he's damn sure NO friend to gun owners either!!!"
Yes, as documented above and on other threads. Thanks.
Quoting you:
La Raza supports Gonzales:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1289864/posts
Here are a couple threads about his position towards the 2nd Amendment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1329455/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325501/posts
Thanks again for this information and these links, particularly on the 2nd Amendment.
Quoting you:
La Raza supports Gonzales:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1289864/posts
Here are a couple threads about his position towards the 2nd Amendment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1329455/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325501/posts
Thanks again for this information and these links, particularly on the 2nd Amendment.
It could be a big surprise!
You need to calm down and quit double posting -- nothing is worth getting this upset about. Go take some deep breaths!
SOS different day, different Hispanic....
Okay Mom.
I'm not hyperventilating, jsut double-posting, but your point on double-posts is well taken.
(I thought a PBK would get my attempt at humor last time as an indcation that I was basically a happy camper.)
<;^)
Re your comment:
"SOS different day, different Hispanic...."
WHAT are you talking about???
(I have NO idea, since I haven't been on FR for about 6-9 months.)
(Too busy.)
I liked the parenthesis by your name about the broom closet in lieu of the hearing room. Obscure, but quite funny.
Yes, I agree, it COULD be a BIG surprise.... One way or the other...
;^)
P.S. I like Sen./& fmr. Gov. Geo. Allen and JC Watts very much as well, just as you evidnetly do. Don't know if their my #1 & #2, respectively, for 2008. But it wouldn't be a bad ticket. It could be a very strong one! JC would certainly be a great improvement over the current OKLA Gov.(!!), wouldn't he?
<;^)
Thanks again, Chode.
Yes, you are correct, but I was wrong & apparently (unfortunately) read him correctly the first time, so its perhaps just as well I didn't correctly address it.
Thanks again.
You have a very good point in my opinion re: need for increased vigilance on border security. I emphatically agree with you on that.
You are a very funny guy!
You are quite profound in quoting JS Mill and Thos. Jefferson on the particular matters featured on your perosnal page.
Re; Your quote on the modern history of Germany is well taken as is the John Adams quote (his #1 best selling biographer, David McCullough, is a personal friend of mine): A friend of mine (who is now in her 70s or 80s)lived under Hitler and she knew she was not free, she lived under a dark cloud of depression (& fear) from early childhood.
Literally, in describing the Nazis she recounts that everything went lamost literally from technicolor to chairo-scuro (sp?) black & white the day she & her grandfather encountered theri first Nazi thugs. She regarded them as evil, which they were.
My dad fished bodies from graves to study medicine and had his land stripped from his family by communist Nazi sympathizers.
Horrible story! I understand you better now. Thanks.
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