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Reid: Pick Nominee in Earl Warren Mold
AP ^ | 7/9/05

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 109th; earlwarren; judicialnominees; scotus
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To: Crackingham

I'll have my Ferrari with a dual white center stripe.... Italian red with just a modicum of chrome.


61 posted on 07/09/2005 2:30:16 PM PDT by bert ( The final Crusade is possible......... just piss us off a little more.)
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To: sgtbono2002
Mr. Reid please , with all due respect--which is none--STFU.

No!

If this were to be the case then his political backing could only become a stronger entity!

Leave well enough alone!

62 posted on 07/09/2005 2:31:13 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: IndyTiger

The truth is that the activist decisions written under Warren were not really written by Warren. Warren had a management style that basically encouraged the other members of the court to write what they wanted to write. He stood aside and let them do it, but it was not so much his doing. The other members of the court were very activist.


63 posted on 07/09/2005 2:31:55 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Txsleuth
The dems are using such stupid reasons for "their" picks---their reasons have nothing to do with the duties of a Supreme Court justice....

It caters to a lot of stupid voters......

64 posted on 07/09/2005 2:35:21 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Crackingham
When I was a kid, my folks would take us on inexpensive driving vacations.....Mammoth Cave, Gatlinburg, the Smokies, all through the deep south.

I'll never forget the signs and billboards, "Get the U.S. Out of the U.N.", "Impeach Earl Warren", "See Rock City" and "Jesus Saves". The southern highways and by-ways had lots of them. I still love them all, LOL.

Anyone else remember?

Leni

65 posted on 07/09/2005 2:37:34 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: PhiKapMom
-- when Hillary Clinton picked Gingsberg no one told "Bill" to pick a moderate because Gingsberg certainly was no moderate --

The Dems play serious political hardball that's why. Thus the extreme left now is considered to be politically moderate by many.

66 posted on 07/09/2005 2:38:26 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Txsleuth

Reid also said that a SC Justice should have a "big heart." Can you believe the man. Is there a bigger fool on the planet.


67 posted on 07/09/2005 2:40:42 PM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: MinuteGal
Anyone else remember?

Shoot, all I remember is:

Wall Drug just 300 miles.....Wall Drug just 299 miles....Wall Drug just 298 miles....and so on, and so on....

; (

68 posted on 07/09/2005 2:41:08 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Bahbah
Is there a bigger fool on the planet.

Yes, many.

69 posted on 07/09/2005 2:42:15 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Bahbah

He is one of the dems we need to keep talking...the more he and Howard Dean talk, the better the Republicans will look to any serious moderate dems and independents!!!


70 posted on 07/09/2005 2:46:01 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: Crackingham
"Someone who will bring us together"

I believe President Bush has this exact same thought, but with a much different result that that of Sen. Reid.

The confirmation of the next Supreme Court justice might be a brutal process.  There's no doubt senators like Ted Kennedy are going to pull out the stops in trying to belittle, humiliate, and misrepresent whoever President Bush nominates.  I know of one woman that could serve a short while, and would take senators like Kennedy to task, reverse any intended belittlement and humiliation.  She isn't a lawyer, but that's not a requirement for appointment to the court, everyone knows where she stands on important issues, and she has a very strong history of keeping politicians in-check.  This could never happen, but it would sure be fun to have President Bush nominate his mother, Barbara Bush as the next justice.  I'd tune-in everyday to watch that confirmation process.  She would shred Kennedy and his likes in the confirmation process.  Sure she wouldn't serve long, and wouldn't have too, but she would sure make the confirmation process easier for any future selections.  Kennedy and his cohorts would still be punch-drunk from her confirmation process.

71 posted on 07/09/2005 3:09:20 PM PDT by backtothestreets
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To: MinuteGal

Yes, I remember those signs being all across Alabama. In fact, the first thing I thought of when I saw this post was "Impeach Earl Warren".


72 posted on 07/09/2005 3:14:47 PM PDT by AUsome Joy
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To: Crackingham

Earl Warren's dead, Harry.


73 posted on 07/09/2005 3:16:27 PM PDT by RichInOC (Put the Democrats to the sword. You must purge the stupidity from among you.)
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To: Crackingham
>> Reid: Pick Nominee in Earl Warren Mold <<

Tsk. Tsk. He's preaching to the wrong crowd. If ONLY Reid moved a few miles west to CALIFORNIA rather than Nevada, he'd find a whole bunch of "Republicans" willing to listen to him:




74 posted on 07/09/2005 4:42:26 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Find out about the Chicago Democrat Machine's "best friend" in the GOP... www.NoLaHood.com)
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To: Crackingham

Earl Warren. Racist, Liberal, and the Worst Chief Justice in US History. Methinks Reid's got some 'splainin' to do. Especially to our Japanese-American friends.


75 posted on 07/09/2005 4:58:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (*"Justice" is French for Getting Screwed By Liberals*)
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To: Crackingham

To paraphrase a Democratic party hero, Andrew Jackson: Mr Reid has given his advice, now let him enforce it.


76 posted on 07/09/2005 5:04:19 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: Crackingham

Impeach Earl Warren, dig him up if you have to!


77 posted on 07/09/2005 5:06:49 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Crackingham

Tell Dinghy Harry that he doesn't get any say in who the nominee is. He heads the minority party.


78 posted on 07/09/2005 5:07:55 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Torie
"Hey, Senator Reid, how does the Roe decision fit into your new theory, that decision that was at once synthetic without synthesis?"

That is a brilliant way to put it: synthetic without synthesis.

Bravo!

79 posted on 07/09/2005 5:29:10 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Ron Bonjean: "Deepthroat...Deanthroat...Dean likes the taste of his own foot.")
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To: Crackingham

80 posted on 07/09/2005 5:32:41 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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