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Question: Who was the Southern White Protestant SCOTUS Justice?
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| 15 October 05
| gobucks
Posted on 10/15/2005 9:02:18 AM PDT by gobucks
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:02:21 AM PDT
by
gobucks
To: gobucks
Can anyone answer for me this question: who was the last SCOTUS Justice that was a white, protestant, Southerner?
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:03:11 AM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: gobucks
Not sure where you're going with this. Are you suggesting that conservatives don't like southern white protestants?
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:05:57 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: gobucks
she is a Southern, White, Protestant. I can't and I don't care. So now you want a quota for Southern white protestants.
So when was the last Asian, hispanic, or american indian on SCOTUS. Well the answer to that is never.
Before you bite the apple of quotas, you should first consider where the apple came from.
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:07:47 AM PDT
by
staytrue
To: Dog Gone; staytrue
"Not sure where you're going with this. Are you suggesting that conservatives don't like southern white protestants?"
Bottom line, the wing of 'conservatives' expressing outrage over her are all from the Northeast for the most part. Southern outrage to Miers? Strangely missing...
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:13:39 AM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: Dog Gone
Are you suggesting that conservatives don't like southern white protestants? Inside the beltway ivy league pointed headed intellectual conservatives don't. Many of the pundits most vocal in their criticism of Harriet Miers have also been quick to dismiss or ridicule religious conservatives, wherever they are from.
They, too, like to be invited to Washington parties and, as they accuse Supreme Court justices of being seduced by that type of blandishment, they appear to have been swayed themselves. Dismissing Christianns as less intelligent, less well educated, they get their entre to the "right society," while still maintaining that they are doctrinaire conservatives.
Bigotry may be part of their brand of conservatism, but it has never been part of mine. I, for one, was thrilled when Patrick Von Buchannan chose to leave the Republican party for loony Ross Perot's clique. They deserve each other.
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:13:48 AM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: gobucks
"Can anyone answer for me this question: who was the last SCOTUS Justice that was a white, protestant, Southerner?"
still waiting....
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:15:04 AM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: gobucks
Hopefully this is a trivia question but it may not play well in this overcharged environment.
You better duck for the incoming.
GO COLTS!!!
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:18:48 AM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Republicans should give Miers a fair vote.)
To: gobucks
I saw on another thread, its the father of Ramsey Clark.
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:20:35 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
To: Earthdweller
"Hopefully this is a trivia question but it may not play well in this overcharged environment."
It is a trivia question; but the obviousness of what the fight is becoming about is more and more and more clear: the 'conservatives' and the liberals share one thing in common: they despise conservative social protestants, ESPECIALLY the southern variety. Bottom line, their attitude seems to be the SCOTUS will be off-limits to White Southern Protestants .... so, all I wanted to know was this: who was the last one?
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:21:38 AM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: gobucks
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:22:00 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
To: aft_lizard
I'm pretty sure Tom Clark wasn't a traditional southern protestant. I have looked everywhere for his religious affilitian. Bottom line, he was a total liberal.
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:22:41 AM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: gobucks
Well you didnt say anything about political leanings, but he was a white southern protestant.
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:23:53 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
To: gobucks
Off the top of my head I can think of Virginian Lewis Powell and Alabaman Hugo Black, both socially liberal activists. I'm not sure if either was or both were Protestant, but I believe both were.
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:26:15 AM PDT
by
JCEccles
To: gobucks
I'm all for Southern, White, Protestant SCOTUS justices but why settle for a
liberal Southern white protestant?
Hugo Black was a good one, don't know if he was the last one though.
To: gobucks
That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the objections to Miers.
The fact that she is WHOLLY UNQUALIFIED, knows NOTHING about Constitutional Law, has ZERO track record to know her true "judicial philosophy" (assuming she even has one, and isn't the political opportunist that she appears to be) and is a CRONY of W has much, MUCH more to do with the opposition.
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:46:35 AM PDT
by
jstolzen
(All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke)
To: jstolzen
"That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the objections to Miers. "
Funny, you couldn't, or wouldn't, answer the question. Noted.
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posted on
10/15/2005 10:06:38 AM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: gobucks
After thinking it over for a bit, the Miers outrage among 'conservatives' seems to have one major feature: she is a Southern, White, Protestant. Sort of like Jimmy Carter? And, that's far from the only similarities between Miers and Carter.
To: gobucks
To: gobucks
"Bottom line, the wing of 'conservatives' expressing outrage over her are all from the Northeast for the most part."
I'm not, never have been. I'm also an evangelical Christian and I don't like this nomination an am insulted when I'm told I'm supposed to love it because she's an evangelical Christian, by the way so is Jimmy Carter. Then I'm told by GB "trust me" when did we start electing leaders who we were supposed to follow blindly, that's what the RATS do!
The criticism of Miers is we fought for 30 years to bring the tyranny of the courts to heel and this was the moment. Is there anything in Miers history that would inspire you to believe she will fight that fight inside the court? We KNEW Thomas and Scalia would because they had been outspoken all their lives for what they believed in despite whithering attacks.
GB could have put up a strong conservative and fought and if he lost then put up Miers. She was on Ried's list as a compromise. Instead, GB choose not to fight and settled for a crony.
I can't vote Rats but it sure does get hard to get excited to got to the polls for a party like this.
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posted on
10/15/2005 10:30:06 AM PDT
by
wmfights
(lead, follow, or get out of the way)
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