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'The case was fixed' (Michigan affirmative action case)
Washington Times ^ | 11/18/03 | Charles Hurt

Posted on 11/17/2003 9:44:30 PM PST by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:10:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Senate Democratic staffers and a judge appointed by President Carter made extraordinary efforts last year to ensure that a liberal majority sat on the federal appeals court that heard the Michigan affirmative action cases, according to internal Democratic staff memos.


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KEYWORDS: aa; courts; dememosgate; scotus
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To: CyberAnt
Have they become so arrogant they are willing to take such BIG risks ..??

IMHO, "desparate" would make for a more accurate word.

21 posted on 11/17/2003 11:05:01 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS
If the GOP increases its majority next November, then it's all good. If it merely maintains it, that's almost as good. If it loses it, then we can look back on a lot of wasted opportunities. Call me skittish. I can see the Democrats becoming more marginalized, but I guess I'm too used to being in the minority to count those chickens just yet.
22 posted on 11/17/2003 11:09:27 PM PST by squidly
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To: kattracks
"It ought to be examined by the Ethics Committee."

Typo. It should read "Republican Ethics Committee". Rats get a pass.

23 posted on 11/17/2003 11:11:09 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (I'm a racist, you're a racist, we're all racists, hey!)
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To: July 4th
Break this thing wide open.

If only there weren't a news blackout on all this stuff.

24 posted on 11/17/2003 11:13:15 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (I'm a racist, you're a racist, we're all racists, hey!)
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To: squidly
If it loses it, then we can look back on a lot of wasted opportunities.

If THAT happens then we will lose the Presidency also. Keep in mind, up until now, the GOP's greatest political benefit is a statesman BUT once he goes into full campaign swing, along with the record financial support he has received, fear not!

25 posted on 11/17/2003 11:19:11 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: kattracks
News of the leaked documents enraged Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, who called for an investigation into how the documents were released.

With December just around the corner, do you suppose that Time Magazine will herald the "whistle-blowers" as People Of The Year again?

-PJ

26 posted on 11/17/2003 11:20:25 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: kattracks
Here is a rant I published a couple of months ago lamenting both the corruption of the confirmation process and the corruption of the judicial process by liberal judges, some of whom were here shown to be venal as well as misguided:


We are getting periliously close to something other than a democratic representative government, circumscribed by a written constitution, as intrepreted by by honest jurists.

Here are a collection oy my comments made over time which are quite lengthy and their reproduction has a tinge of self absorption. Skip them if you like:

Our system works on the notion of stare decisis which has come to mean the encrustation of baby steps away from the plain meaning of the constitution. My fear is that the process has gone irretrievably far. The encrustation is so complete that plainly unconstitutional opinions like Roe v Wade not only become a bullwark against original constitutional meaning, they become themselves an independent justification for further mischief, such as the sodomy cases.
I posted this:

The significance of these recent Supreme Court decisions (Sodomy; qoutas)is as follows, and they are, without exception, ominious:

1. The battle over states' rights, 138 years after Appomatox and 49 years after the court ordered school integration, is finally, conclusively, over. There are no more states' rights and it is only a matter of time until the court gets around to picking off the remaining vestiges of states' powers one by one. I stand by this despite the guns at schools ruling).

2. The idea of the written constitution as a social contract is dead. It has now morphed into a manifesto which can accomodate groups' rights as they come into favor.

3. The idea that law, constitutional law, should be dominant in ordering the affairs of men is now dead and in its place we will governed by a coctail of sociology, anthropology, psychology, and pop culture.

4. The unwritten Confession of Faith shared by our Justices for generations in which they conceive themselves in spirit to be LEGAL arbiters operating within a LEGAL system and according to its rules has been tacitedly abandoned, although its vocabulary has been retained to conceal the metamorphis, and the Justices now have assumed a new role as Shamons, Priesters, Oracles or something quite different which has yet to be fully revealed.

5. The legal system will cease to be a place where rights are vindicated and become a source for the establishment of INTERESTS. To attain the establishment of his interests, the clever advocate will see that the Gods of the new system will have to be propitiated. Theis means that sucessful advocates will have established their cause as the flavor of the month in a ever changing menu of fads, movements, and the like.

6. Resort to the Constitution will be an empty exercise resorted to by fools who do not know how the real game is actually being played. At the risk of quoting myself, here is what I posted that reflects how I feel:

I view this venal corruption as the inevitable result of the intellectual, proceedural and constitutional corruption which the left has insinuated into our legal system.

The left has wrenched our polity away fom the constitution, pettifogging its plain meaning. It has used judges to accomplish this.

It has undermined democracy by converting political issues like abortion or sodomy into legal/constitutional questions. It has used judges to accomplish this.

It has made a mindless parlour game of gotcha out of the criminal justice system, substituting a gauntlet of obstacles which the prosecution must negotiate in place of the quest for truth. It has used judges to accomplish this.

It has established favored groups and disestablished other less favored Americans not only as they interact with their government but privately, as in matters of free association or job quotas. They have used judges to accomplish this.

The left has corrupted the process of selecting judges. First, by character assination as against Bork and then Thomas. Now, by filibustering their way to a super majority. It is not original to observe that this was the predictable result of politicising the judicial system.

The left has has attempted to to control elections through judicial fiat as in the Florida Supreme Court with its palpable bias in the election matter. Or in California where the courts overturned a sucessful referendem on policy grounds. Or in Arizona where a court usurped the budget making powers. Likewise in Pa. They used judges to accomplish all of this.

And it was equally predictable that quite soon the judges themselves would start jiggering their own system. The left has made the stakes too high to leave the answers to the rules of proceedure. So we see the assignment judge playing games in the Clinton affair. We see the crcuit court jobbing the system in the affirmative action cases. This happens precisely because the left made them judges to get their agenda into the books, not to concern themselves with so abstract a notion as "justice." So leftist judges beome corrupt in the administration of their own courts.

Now we see venal corruption. This was also to be foreseen. Why should greed stand as the lone taboo in a sea of sin and political opportunism. Just where should the whore say, "no, that far I will not go." http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/958376/posts?page=8#8

In short, I fear the rot is so pervasive, so institutionalized, that not even nominating the right horses can retrieve the situation. I sincerely hope I am wrong. My pessimism does not imply that we should not try -it is all we have left before the barricades
27 posted on 11/17/2003 11:24:34 PM PST by nathanbedford
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To: Jeff Chandler
except for the Washington Times here, you are right.

29 posted on 11/17/2003 11:37:56 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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To: kattracks
self-ping
30 posted on 11/18/2003 12:23:52 AM PST by Free Vulcan
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To: kattracks
It is long past the time to FLUSH the Democrap EXCEMENT from the Judiciary Committee of the 'Bob & Billie' Club!
31 posted on 11/18/2003 3:16:34 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: kattracks
It is long past the time to FLUSH the Democrap EXCEMENT from the Judiciary Committee of the 'Bob & Billie' Club!
32 posted on 11/18/2003 3:16:54 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: kattracks
It is long past the time to FLUSH the Democrap EXCEMENT from the Judiciary Committee of the 'Bob & Billie' Club!
33 posted on 11/18/2003 3:17:12 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: nathanbedford
Right on. The tyranny of the judiciary has undermined the constitution and our democracy.
34 posted on 11/18/2003 4:00:21 AM PST by kabar
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To: kittymyrib
The Republicans need to be much more forceful....

That has been the problem with the spineless Senate republicans all along on every issue. They don't use the force they have at their disposal.

35 posted on 11/18/2003 4:11:33 AM PST by RushLake
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To: kattracks
bttt
36 posted on 11/18/2003 5:24:53 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Mo1
"Sometimes when people get their hands caught in the cookie jar, they try to divert you away from what really happened," Mr. Hatch said yesterday. He also suggested the Democratic memos could have come from "a conscience-stricken staffer."

Responded Senator Durbin "Nonsense! We do not hire staffers that have a conscience."

37 posted on 11/18/2003 5:56:12 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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To: cherry
another reason to vote libertarian or Pat buchannon.....you get all these demonrats controlling the judicial arm of the government, and thus, nothing will ever change ...

Outside of actually voting for the libs, nothing would be so certain to lead to the election of these tyrants than to follow your advice.

38 posted on 11/18/2003 5:58:29 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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To: kattracks
 "The case was fixed," Tom Fitton, president of the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, said yesterday. "

Unfortunatly, Judicial Watch are (is?) considered whack-jobs and anything they say, even if true, is worthless. It's a shame there isn't a better messenger.

39 posted on 11/18/2003 6:01:02 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango
Unfortunatly, Judicial Watch are (is?) considered whack-jobs and anything they say, even if true, is worthless. It's a shame there isn't a better messenger.

Agreed. Part of that is a lazy reporter for the Washinton Times. He could have found someone that people take seriously to provide comments for the other side.

40 posted on 11/18/2003 6:03:06 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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