Posted on 10/24/2003 11:23:06 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
A random walk through a snarl of items currently in the news...
Add now the name Janice Brown to the lengthening list: Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, William Pryor, Charles Pickering, Claude Allen, Carolyn Kuhl, Henry Saad. All are Bush nominees disapproved by Senate Democrats for the federal bench because all share a moderate view of the law and a strict constructionist interpretation of it. The Democratic left terms them right-wing extremists (part of the "vast right-wing conspiracy"?).
Justice Brown is a member of the California Supreme Court nominated by President Bush for the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia. She also is black. The 39-member Congressional Black Caucus, consisting entirely of Democrats, disses Justice Brown's 2000 majority opinion upholding a California referendum opposing racial preferences. Sounds as though, as in the case of Clarence Thomas, what the Caucus et al really resent - really fear - is a conservative black woman on an appellate court. It's not minorities leftists want on the courts, but minorities sharing their leftist biases.
And speaking of women on the bench, Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has thrown out a 1999 decision by the board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel six trademarks of the Washington Redskins. The judge said a group of activists provided insufficient evidence that the Skins' moniker implicitly or explicitly disparages American Indians. Though the judge stressed her 83-page opinion "should not be read as making any statement on the appropriateness of Native-American imagery for team names, at least one activist said the judge "brings a new low to the word 'ignorance.' " He and others are out for her scalp.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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