Posted on 07/19/2005 12:25:06 PM PDT by Pokey78
The Washington Post reported earlier (I can't find the link) on Edith Brown Clement: "Known as a conservative and a strict constructionist in legal circles, Clement also has eased fears among abortion-rights advocates. She has stated that the Supreme Court 'has clearly held that the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution includes the right to have an abortion' and that 'the law is settled in that regard.'"
I don't believe for a minute that these statements have "eased fears" among anyone in the abortion-rights groups, and they shouldn't inspire fears among pro-lifers--which, judging from some of the blog commentaries and emails I've been reading, they are. That is precisely the stance that an appeals-court judge has to take, and it says nothing about how that judge would rule if she were on the Supreme Court. Indeed, if an appeals-court nominee didn't say something like that before the Senate, she wouldn't get confirmed. So for pro-lifers to demand that Supreme Court nominees never have made such statements is self-defeating: It means that almost everyone on the bench would have to be wiped off the list of Supreme Court hopefuls. No anti-Roe justice would be able to rise through the ranks.
Even Bill Pryor, who said Roe was an abomination, rightly promised to accept the authority of the Supreme Court over the lower courts in this matter.
There may be a case against Clement, but this isn't it.
True, as a Supreme, she does not have to look upstream to anyone other than God and her conscience. The other Supremes are colleagues, not authorities.
We're wasting our time on Clement. It's going to be someone else!
Ditto! According to ABCnews.com, a white house source says it's not Clement.
Do you all even trust the man and his principles that we elected to be our President? Don''t you think he deserves some kinder, gentlier treatment? You don't even know who "His Pick" is and you're dumping on it...Shame, Shame. Support the President and defeat the Rats...AGAIN!
When Clement was a judge in Louisiana she sentence a Mr. Brown (father of Campbell Brown - journalist to 6 months in prison.
Clement was also a graduate of Holy Cross in La.
I wasn't dumping on Bush. I didn't say a thing bad about Bush. I was just commenting on commentary on Clement. This is all speculation anyway.
Edith Clements would have been a good choice, though John Roberts is a good one, too.
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