| 20 failed judicial nominees
This occurred because Harry Reid's lips were moving. When they move, he lies. |
Posted on 02/17/2005 12:53:20 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
(CNSNews.com) - A religious watchdog group is blasting the Bush administration for re-submitting the nominations of judges the group has urged the Senate to defeat. On Monday, Bush re-nominated 20 failed judicial nominees, some of which have been denounced by liberals as "right-wing extremists."
Americans United for Separation of Church and State Tuesday criticized the Bush administration's "stubbornness" for re-submitting William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown for nomination to the federal bench.
"This administration is bent on radically re-making the federal bench," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, in a press release. "No one can take seriously the president's suggestions of seeking unity when he doggedly pushes nominees who have advocated divisive, wildly outrageous views on some (sic) this country's most cherished liberties."
Americans United called on the Senate several times in 2003 to block the nominations of Pryor and Brown, claiming both have shown "great disregard and blatant disrespect for the First Amendment principle of church-state separation."
During the last congressional recess, Bush appointed Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Pryor's appointment is temporary and will expire unless the Congress confirms his nomination.
Americans United is opposed to Pryor's nomination because he was an early defender of former Alabama Judge Roy Moore's quest to block removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state Judicial Building. Brown, the group said, "has also gone public with far-out views on long-established First Amendment precedent."
The group wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in October 2003 detailing "Brown's outlandish judicial philosophies."
Americans United noted that during a 1999 speech at Pepperdine University, Brown "attacked" the Supreme Court for "relying too often 'on a rather uninformative metaphor of the 'wall of separation' between church and state.'" Brown "stated that the high court may have been wrong in 1940 to assert that the Bill of Rights is applicable to the states," the group added.
"Bush made promises to the nation's Religious Right and he is under immense pressure to follow through on those promises," said Lynn.
"One of his oft-repeated campaign promises was to shape the federal courts. His nominations reveal exactly how he hopes to shape the bench - he wants a judiciary packed with jurists who will constrict civil liberties, nor protect them," he added.
"Just as we did in 2003 and 2004, Americans United is urging senators to stand against the president's efforts to damage fundamental rights in America by moving the federal courts to the extreme right," said Lynn.
"The moderates and centrists in the Senate must not be bullied by an administration beholden to a radical Religious Right agenda," he concluded.
While he's at it, why not resubmit Robert Bork for the next SCOTUS opening?
Watching out, that is, for threats against their religion, Humanism.
"Just as we did in 2003 and 2004, Americans United is urging senators to stand against the president's efforts to damage fundamental rights in America by moving the federal courts to the extreme right," said Lynn.
They're willing to borrow from Christian monotheism the idea of "right", which assumes the concept justice, a measurability against some absolute standard of right and wrong, but deny the absolute Source of the standard. They expect us to accept this a priori, as somehow less absurd than the obvious notion that rights, justice, morality, even logic have their origin in the only Absolute, an all-knowing Creator.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
Have I got this right? This is a Religious/Political group that advocates for the so-called 'Separation of Church and State'?
That is a Satanic or Godless Religious watch dog group of America Haters (Communist) Americans United for separation of God and man.
robert H.Bork, and the Honorable Roy S.Moore ,and Judge DeWeese.
The last thing these monsters want are honest judges.
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| 20 failed judicial nominees
This occurred because Harry Reid's lips were moving. When they move, he lies. |
the Rev. Barry W. Lynn - the Rev. Jesse Jackson - I must make a note to myself (add Rev. to my name - set up non profit slush fund and .org web site - camp out in liberal senators' front yards).
These weasels do not acknowledge "separation of church and state" means the government shall not dictate a national church/religion. The England the founders left behind had established an "official" church. They wanted to be sure the new Republic did not follow suit.
All the rest of Lynn's bs is based on misinterpretation. At least, that's the way I see it.
Don't be fooled by the "Rev." in front of Barry Lynn's name any more than you would by it appearing in the name of the alleged "Rev. Jesse Bobblehead Jackson".
Americans United for Separation of C & S are basically the twin organization of the laughably named "People for the American Way".
Exactly!
They know that their little game of force-feeding their politics down our throats by way of an activist judiciary is finally being threatened.
If the Democrats are so desperate, why don't they lay out a few nomination ideas?
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CNS News falls for Harry Reid's spin. These nominees are not "failed." They were never voted on. Some never even had hearings in committee. They were filibustered by Democrats, pure and simple. Now Harry Reid has the nerve to call them "failed."