Ted Olson Criticizes GOP Leaders For 'Heated Rhetoric' About Judges

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[AppyPappy]

Ted was awfully quiet when the Dems were doing this to Republican judges.

[Preachin']

He is saying this because he has tried several cases in front of the USSC.

He is only trying to make sure he doesn't get placed in a place where the justice's personal opinion of him will come into play.

Looking out for self.

[brothers4thID]

Mrs. Bush told the President, during the 2000 campaign, to "back off the rhetoric". If that advice is good enough for such a Lady to give to such a Leader, then I think it applies here too.

Personal demeaning attacks only lower the tone of the debate and distract from the substance.

[firewalk]

The title says...

Ted Olson Criticizes GOP Leaders For 'Heated Rhetoric' About Judges

but the article says...

Former solicitor general Theodore Olson writes in the WALL STREET JOURNAL on Thursday:
"A prominent member of the Senate leadership recently described a Supreme Court justice as 'a disgrace.'
An equally prominent member of the leadership of the House of Representatives on the other side of the political aisle
has characterized another justice's approach
to adjudication as 'incredibly outrageous.

...looks to me like Mr. Olson is being critical of both sides...

future Nominee for the Supreme Court
...one can only hope

[b4its2late]

Even Ted is allowed to be wrong once in a while.

[rwfromkansas]

Ted is a good guy.

But, he is also a legal guy.

Thus, when anybody in the legal arena is criticized, even those he no doubt doesn't like himself, he will defend them.

It is stupid, but it is what he is doing here.

[drjimmy]

...looks to me like Mr. Olson is being critical of both sides...

You are correct. Olson is criticizing both sides. The Drudge headline is wrong but I don't know if it can/should be corrected for the title of this thread.

[Radioactive]

The one from the House was Delay.

That is why Delay has come under attack.

He is going after the only place in government in which the communists of the Demoncrat party have any power....in the Judicial.

That is why the Demoncrats are fighting against Bush appointees. They want control of the Judicial because they know that they don't have a snowballs chance in hell to get their candidates with their communist goals elected into office and put their idea of socialism into our country.

It is time for america to wake up and see that the Demoncrats have only one goal...complete domination of our court system.

They must be stopped.

[joesbucks]

I bet you loved reading this.

How can you say that?

Enjoyed for the reasons you believe? No. Welcomed advice from someone who is conservative, consitutional, judicial, well reasoned, respected and rational. That I enjoyed.

[formercalifornian]

lol

[MamaLucci]

Ted is a beltway insider.......probably goes to cocktail
parties with SC Justices. The only surprise here is that he
is breaking Reagan's 11th Commandment, and I thought Ted
was smarter than that.

[formercalifornian]

That is for sure. Every time a body turns up after an Amber alert, and a released child molester turns out to be the perp, I think really hard about our esteemed independent judiciary.

[Texas Federalist]

I agree. Even if you are a little more cynical, he is attempting to preserve the power of a branch of government in which he may serve. Self-interest drives people . . .

[Leatherneck_MT]

Hey Ted

Sit down and shut up

[cartoonistx]

I'm sorry, but I, too, am dismayed by our side's heated rhetoric lately. Conservatives must hold themselves to a higher standard of discourse than the over-wroght, emotional and intellectual midgets of the left. The intentional partisan hype of the MSM aside, some of the public statements from some republican leaders in the wake of the Schiavo case only serve to cause voters to cringe and conclude that we are just as emotionally unstable as the looneys from the other side!

[mombonn]

Barbara would not agree with his statements.

[Sloth]

MYOB, Ted.

[mombonn]

We should start calling the GOP the Sysiphus Party

They could also be referred to at the "Sissyfuss" Party.

sheesh

[ZULU]

Sollicitor General = Attorney = Whjat do you expect?

"We might start by getting a firm grip on the reality that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government, and the envy of the world."


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Anybody out there interested in Bader-Ginsberg??, How about O'Connor??? Stevens???? Souter???

Come on, there MUST be SOME Country out there interested in them. Sweden??? Netherlands??? "Great" Britain???

Maybe Malawi.

[EternalVigilance]

We might start by getting a firm grip on the reality that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government...

Wrong, Ted.

This citizen has lost ALL confidence in the Judiciary.

When they stop ignoring the Constitution or twisting its clear wording to suit their leftwing anti-American, anti-life, anti-liberty agenda, maybe they can win back my respect.

Not before.

As far as I'm concerned, the rhetoric is still far too tepid.