Sure! It's just a flesh wound to the bleeding hearts but it's life or death to me!
Posted on 07/01/2005 7:14:03 AM PDT by SueRae
Not with Brown and Owen who come from their respective State Supreme Courts in CA and TX. They have the background to become justices of the SCOTUS because they do have the experience of being on a State Supreme Court.
Sure! It's just a flesh wound to the bleeding hearts but it's life or death to me!
I like your Luttig, Roberts and the one they call Scaltio (Alito), plus Pyror, and Janice Rogers Brown. I am certain POTUS is going for the gold and that he's been waiting for this fight.
My point with Ted, is that 60 isn't TOO old, but POTUS has other younger ones in his arsenal. The appointments will be a huge part of his legacy and he's not going to blow it.
One thing we have to watch out for is someone like Berger who certainly appeared to be a 'strict constructionist' prior to his elevation to SCOTUS and yet he voted in favor of Roe v Wade.
BTTT!!!!!!
I have not read every message on this thread yet, so I apologize in advance if I am commenting on something already covered.
But I noted that O'Connor has made her resignation contingent upon the confirmation of her successor. This strikes me as rather odd. I thought the usual situation was a resignation effective immediately or at some future date certain, causing an actual vacancy upon the effective date, for which a nomination is then made (and if the Senate fails to act on the nomination, then an interim appointment can at some point be made). Since O'Connor votes both ways, keeping her on the court pending a replacement is not necessarily good or bad, but I am wondering if this sets a precedent whereby liberal judgesi, in cahoots with their Democrat friends, will stay on the bench until a replacement is confirmed. Any Freeper court historian / lawyers know whether O'Connor has followed the usual course here?
Olson is even older then I thought. How old are Garza and Alito?
Definitely agree with you on the naysayers and the GOP. We spent too many years in the minority and I am not forgetting it at all.
Think the most fun I have had in a campaign was Dr. Tom's in the last election. It was a total grassroots campaign -- we were outspent by a lot of money by his opponents but they could not make up for those of us in the grassroots that spent countless hours out supporting Dr. Tom to get out the votes and register new Republicans. It was so awesome on election night to see him win by such a large margin -- we showed the Country that the conservative grassroots are a force to be reckoned with. Anyone running for office should take a page out of the Dr. Tom playbook on how to get the base energized and out working for your election against all odds. His integrity and conservative principles won the day and I am so proud he is our Oklahoma Senator.
the white males are too easy for the Dems to demonize - there is no political downside to them demonizing a white male. we can replace Rehnquist with a white male.
this is the perfect time for an Hispanic nominee. If Alito is the best choice, send him up - and let's get some 527s running ads on Univision and Telemundo in support of him.
Dr. Tom is making all of us proud -- think he was tweaking those who made the agreement.
Shameless Plug
First Amendment Faith
The American Enterprise Online ^ | 6/29/05 / Nov/Dec 1995 | Michael McConnell
Posted on 06/30/2005 8:33:46 AM CDT by Valin
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433812/posts
Should President Bush have an opportunity to name a new Supreme Court justice, the eminent legal scholar Michael McConnell is one of the leading candidates. Currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, McConnell was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School when he wrote an article for TAE on the importance of protecting the free expression of religious rights.
The Movement for Religious Rights
By Michael W. McConnell
In the past few decades, there has been an extraordinary secularization of American public life, especially in the schools. Religious and traditionalist parents are finding that their viewpoints and concerns are ruled out-of-order, while at the same time the schools can be used to promote ideas and values that are sometimes offensive and hostile to their own.
This has inspired many conservative Christian groups to propose legislation, or even a constitutional amendment, to guarantee equal treatment for religious speakers, groups, and ideas in the public sphere. This would end the double standard that currently denies religious speech and practice the protections offered all other kinds of expression. The proposals include two principles:
First, when private persons (including students in public schools) are permitted to engage in speech reflecting a secular viewpoint, then speech reflecting a religious viewpoint should be permitted on the same basis.
Second, when the government provides benefits to private activities, such as charitable work, health care, education, or art, there should be no discrimination or exclusion on the basis of religious expression, character, or motivation. Religious citizens should not be required to engage in self-censorship as a precondition to participation in public programs. (This idea was incorporated in the Senate welfare reform bill.)
Most people agree that government should be neutral toward religion, but the beginning of wisdom in this contentious area of law is to recognize that neutrality and secularism are not the same thing. In the marketplace of ideas, secular viewpoints and ideologies compete with religious viewpoints and ideologies. It is no more neutral to favor the secular over the religious than it is to favor the religious over the secular. It is time to reorient constitutional law away from the false neutrality of the secular state, and toward a genuine equality of rights.
The demand for religious equality is often denounced as a tactic of the so-called “religious right,” but it was Justice William Brennan, the leading liberal on the Court in this generation, who wrote that “religionists no less than members of any other group enjoy the full measure of protection afforded speech, association, and political activity generally. The establishment clause…may not be used as a sword to justify repression of religion or its adherents from any aspect of public life” (McDaniel v. Paty, 1978).
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/Shameless Plug
Does your analogy refer to incoming cases and the process by which the USSC decides whether to hear them? I'm not sure how that works anyway.
Yeah, but he thought the SCOTUS would overturn it. Now is NOT the time to quibble, though, now, is it? QUICK! IT'S ALMOST CLOSING TIME FOR THE WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE (202) 456-1111 !
I fear that this is the case. From what I have seen so far, I can't think of anyone who has the rock-solid conviction that it will take to do the right thing. I've had such high hopes ever since President Bush was elected, but time after time, I've seen strong statements and promises followed by countless retreats and apologies. The never-ending concessions to the other side have given me the impression that President Bush was never that conservative to start with. I still prefer him over the Dems, but sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between parties anymore.
I don't think it will happen but I want credit if it does. Remember the name Judge Jerry Edwin Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, nominated by Ronaldus Maximus, and serving for about twenty years now. Age: Mid-50s. Native of Lubbock, Texas. More recently of the Houston area. His friends once joked that William Rehnquist might anchor the lonely left end of the Smith Court. Thoroughly principled, spine of steel, first rate mind, Yale undergrad, Yale Law. Married with many children. To my Catholic friends and co-religionists: Judge Jerry is (a Mass attending) Methodist by accident of birth but his wife and kids are quite Catholic and I am betting he will be eventually.
Or all of them? :-)
Bush will almost certainly (barring the wildly unforeseen) get to replace Rehnquist. Stevens is 85. Ginsburg has had cancer. Breyer is no spring chicken. So he could well have the chance to replace one of those.
POTUS also has someone named Graza. dubyaismypresident knows more about him.
POTUS is ready for this fight. I'm not leaning toward anyone just because of gender or race.
Ignorance and vapidity.
"Strict Constructionists" do NOT apply the IntStComm clause to backyard vegetable/home consumption businesses.
LOL! But I think you mean "exercised." If he is indeed spouting Dem talking points, though, he may need exorcism!
Now WHAT do you want credit for...hmmmmmmmmmmm? LOL.
For once, your writing is unclear to me.
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