Posted on 07/09/2005 12:08:48 PM PDT by Crackingham
Contending that President Bush's far-right allies are pushing him to appoint an extreme conservative to the Supreme Court, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid pointed to liberal icon Earl Warren as a model. In his party's weekly radio address, Reid, D-Nev., noted that Saturday marked the anniversary of the 1974 death of Warren, a Republican whose court established a liberal tradition with its 1954 school desegregation ruling and other decisions. Reid said Warren had been able to forge a consensus on the court that would become the national consensus.
"Mr. President, that's the kind of justice we hope you'll nominate," Reid said in Saturday's broadcast. "Someone who will bring us together. A mainstream justice who won't use their judicial robe as a cloak to impose their political ideology on the country."
Bush is considering a nominee to succeed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The Senate, under the Constitution's directive that it offer "advice and consent" on such appointments, must vote on his choice.
O'Connor, a Republican and long a swing vote on the court who often took a moderate stance on decisions, to the chagrin of conservative activists, announced her retirement last week. Reid hailed her tenure on the court and said she decided cases "the old-fashioned way — based on law, not politics."
Reid said he hopes Bush and the Senate will work together to nominate and confirm a justice who can build on national consensus on important issues, hold a deep respect for the Constitution, and make rulings not along narrow partisan ideology, but with "an open mind and a big heart."
"But radical-right activists are hungry for something else," he added. "President Bush's far-right allies are spending millions of dollars to pressure him to pick not just a conservative, but an extreme conservative, someone out of the mainstream, someone who will impose their narrow partisan agenda from the perch of the highest court in the land instead of faithfully interpreting the law."
"America deserves better," he said.
For get it Reid.Bush is the President?
Desegregating the schools brought the country together huh? I wonder how all those films I've seen of black children being escorted into school by police fit into that scenario.
The man is an idiot.
Sure, we're all equal regardless of race. Segregation was as evil as slavery. But ending it didn't bring the country together in the short term. It took time. Meanwhile having a court decide matters of life, death, property, religion, etc. irregardless of the Constitution or wishes of the people does NOT bring a country together. It only heightens the tension. Had Reid and the Robed Tyranny respected their roles under the Constitution and the wishes of the people they represent we would not be fighting heatedly other the next Justice. The fact we are is PROOF what he desires will not bring the country together, but only worsen the problem.
The solution is enough Justices that respect the Constitution to be in place. In the short ter,m if they overturn bad precedents from the last courts, it will be heated. In the long term much of the tension will finally be released leading to more unity as the people will largely determine their own fates.
The new democrat mantra: "Bring us together."
What garbage. I don't look to government to "bring us together" but to do its job. Bush's job is to appoint someone HE feels is right for the job, not this mystical "bring us together" person. Harry, please lay out what specifically would "bring us together"? Other than strengthening Roe v. Wade, expanding welfare and soaking the rich to pay for healthcare.
That last sentence is too funny to comment on.
And he's a pale imitation. No wonder this party is going down so badly, their practice squad is the starting lineup.
Isn't this the same Earl Warren that presided over the Kennedy assassination whereby the evidence of a govt coverup was clearly bypassed and the killer, Lyndon Johnson, was never brought to trial?
Chief Justice Roy Moore has a better sound.
But Eisenhower thought he was a conservative, and that is why he was appointed.
Earl Warren was a corrupt and disgusting man.
Reid can stuff it -- when Hillary Clinton picked Gingsberg no one told "Bill" to pick a moderate because Gingsberg certainly was no moderate -- as far left as you can get. Earl Warren would be a RAT today if you ask me so no wonder Reid likes him. Reid must like to hear the sound of his own voice because he talks so much.
Alex Kozinski on the other hand.
Always wondered why Nixon, who of course was VP at the time, didn't counsel Ike against Warren's appointment. Nixon was from California, and you would think that he would have known Warren's true ideology. Maybe Nixon did speak out in private, and Ike didn't listen.
The Reid theory of Constitutional interpretation. A new legal tool is born before our very eyes. Hey, Senator Reid, how does the Roe decision fit into your new theory, that decision that was at once synthetic without synthesis?
Cutting the Reidism down to its bone, what is best is to do away with the House of Representatives, and the sole function of the Senate should be to confirm judges, who would assume each and every other responsibility of Congress.
Mike Dewine of Ohio....as soon as Dingy Harry endorsed Dewine, I sent Dewine a congratulatory email that he is a wanted man...by the socialist Demiwits.
We in Ohio, just want the newest Demwit, Dewine to go home and shut up in 2006. His boy Pat just got his @$$ handed to him in the 2nd district congressional primary. At least partly to blame for that was that the Dewine name in Ohio doesn't mean "Conservative" anymore.
Since when is a Supreme Court justice supposed to "bring the country together?"
The dems are using such stupid reasons for "their" picks---their reasons have nothing to do with the duties of a Supreme Court justice....even though last Sunday, Joe Biden said that the Supreme Court's job is to "make laws"!!
LOLOLOLOL
You are correct in your evaluation. This ploy is so similar to others on the left, like the Gitmos brouhaha. The left raises holy hell over something and then complains about the "division". They then offer that the administration should end such division by giving them their way. They are so obvious as to be laughable except for the media taking them seriously and pushing their point of view.
They parade out some obscure FBI document about Gitmo, did anyone ever check those out for context and authenticity?, blast it all over the news and then say all the publicity is hurting our cause, a cause they oppose anyway incidentally. The solution you would think would be for them to stfu but, no. Their solution was for the administration to beg forgiveness and close Gitmo.
During the Clinton impeachment process they would leak information and then blast Ken Starr for it. The examples go on forever. Were it not for the pliant media even the sheep would see it.
If Pinky wants to select the Supreme Court justices I suggest that he get himself elected President of the United States. Until then, he needs to shut up and just continue kissing butt down at the Vegas union halls. He only represents the Nevada union thugs. He doesn't speak for the rest of America.
"hope"
The mainstay of the pinnacle of emotional politics that the left will never break loose of.
Mr. Reid please , with all due respect--which is none--STFU.
Even "Pinky" isn't foolish enough to tote such aspirations.
Is he?.....
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