Posted on 06/21/2005 4:48:41 PM PDT by Tree of Liberty
Hugh Hewitt just said, moments ago, that, according to his sources, Chief Justice William Renquist will announce his retirement on Monday, and that the President will announce his nominee on Tuesday.
My first time meeting Justice Scalia was at the Italian Store in Arlington, VA where the very Italian staff treated him like a rock star.
In the long run, Dubya's strategy is great. Look at Durbin. He's flailing. The Democrats are flailing. If Bush is aggressive, they have something to focus on. Bush will always keep the rhetoric soft. It may not be a perfect strategy, but he wins in the long run.
Mine too. Although, if they believe the embarassing ones, they also need to believe the ones that have me saying how great I am.
Umm.. That don't sound right. I'm thinking sharp as a bag full of wet mice..
My comment about an act of judicial activism was not focused at Judge Owen or Judge Hecht; it was actually focused at me. What I was saying in that opinion was that, given my interpretation of what the legislature intended, by the way the words that they used in terms of having a minor not totally informed or well informed but sufficiently well informed and the structure of the act, it was in my judgment that the legislature did intend the judicial bypasses to be real. And given my conclusion about what the legislature intended, it would have been an act of judicial activism not to have granted the bypass in that particular case. If someone like Judge Owen in that case reached a different conclusion about what the legislature intended, it would have been perfectly reasonable for her to reach a different outcome. But as to the words that have been used as a sword against Judge Owen, let me just say that those words were related to me in terms of my interpretation of what the legislature intended, again, through the words of the statute and the way that the judicial bypass procedure would actually operate in practice.
IOW, to NOT grant a judicial bypass, given the way the law was written, would have been an act of judicial activism.
Gonzales is, if anything, a strict constructionist. Not an activist.
You do realize, don't you, that liberals regard conservative judges as the "activists"?
"Gonzales is, if anything, a strict constructionist."
Oh yeah, that's why he supported Race Quotas in legal briefs before SCOTUS, yeah sink, you REALLY know your stuff...
Gonzales reasoning on the Texas parental consent decisions have been posted dozens of times here, yet ignorami still insist he's not pro-life.
The Texas legislature changed the wording of the law to raise the standard for judicial bypass in 2001.
He was not a judge in that case. In fact, Ted Olson was the judicial advocate in that case, not Alberto Gonzales.
"How do you know that?"
I work with DC lobbyists, and know a few people who've worked for Gonzales. I'm not friends with Rove or anything, but I do hear things from time to time.
I have no more idea of who is going to be appointed than you do.
"You seem to know more about Gonzalez than most of us; he is at once both pro Roe and dumb."
Dumb in the sense that he is NOT an intellectual, in a job where the public expects you to be a first rate academic intelligence whether you are a liberal or a conservative by philosophical bent.
"He was not a judge in that case. In fact, Ted Olson was the judicial advocate in that case, not Alberto Gonzales."
I didn't say he was judge dumbass, I said he got the Administration to support Race Quotas.
Olson had his briefs watered down BY GONZALES in order to support Race Quotas.
To be honest with you, I haven't examined Gonzalez all that much except that I've looked over a few of his rulings and don't think he's much of an intellect..
In any case, it would be totally inept of GWB to appoint someone Attorney General knowing that just a few months afterward he'd be appointing him to Justice of the Supreme Court, and so I think this entire discussion is moot.
Yup. The Dims will give us a hard time about this but I bet will ultimately let the Prez's pick go through.
The first lib to go will be the hard one.
So you've given up on Gonzales as pro-choice?
Good. That's progress.
I'm pretty sure I fall into that akin-to-bipolar category myself. ;^)
Genius is not a cost free condition. That's why smart Jews have a propensity to certain nuerological diseases, so I read in the WSJ. God for some reason dictated that WASP geniuses (or fallen Catholic geniuses, or both) are destined to be more prone to other problems. God believed in diversity in diseases. And there you have it.
My nominee:
O`Scannlain, Diarmuid Fionntain
Born 1937 in New York, NY
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on August 11, 1986, to a seat vacated by Robert Boochever; Confirmed by the Senate on September 25, 1986, and received commission on September 26, 1986.
Education:
St. John`s University, B.A., 1957
Harvard University, J.D., 1963
University of Virginia School of Law, LL.M., 1992
Professional Career:
U.S. Army Reserve, JAG Corps, 1955-1978
Tax attorney, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and New York City, 1963-1965
Private practice, Portland, Oregon, 1965-1969
Deputy state attorney general, Oregon State Department of Justice, 1969-1971
Public utility commissioner, Oregon 1971-1973
Director, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, 1973-1974
Private practice, Portland, Oregon, 1975-1986
Consultant, Office of the President-Elect of the United States, 1980-1981
Team leader, President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control/Grace Commission, 1982-1983
Chairman, Advisory Panel to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, 1983-1985
Race or Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Here's a thought: convince me Gonzales is a fair swap for Rehnquist.
But he might be a swap for Stevens or O'Connor.
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