BUSH PICKS John G. Roberts

July, 19, 2005

[freedrudge]

President Bush has chosen federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. as his nominee to the Supreme Court, a senior administration official says...

[ohioWfan]

Totally agree, Howlin..........that is a GREAT post, LS! Kudos!

[oprahstheantichrist]

"... whenever they use the word "Nazi" in a thread about Republicans, an angel laughs his ass off."

That is SO funny! Did you make that up just now, or has that "been around" awhile?

[kesg]

levin has just given him his seal of approval.

This is all I need to know.

[wardaddy]

I;m very pleased.

Very...

Brown or Luttig are my the rest of my list.....lots of decent picks out there.

The MSM sure fooled me

[Archon of the East]

Agreed! Roberts as a replacement for O'Connor makes this overall a huge win provided we get a Thomas like replacement for Rehnquist and Go from there. But I am happy with the pick for whatever the heck thats worth.

[SierraWasp]

Houston, we have a problem! A member of the public interest law firm Pacific Legal Foundation has pointed out on a Sacramento Radio Talk Show (Mark Williams KFBK) that the nominee seemed to really relish defending The TRPA (Tahoe Regional Planning Authority) before the Supreme Court to keep a beseiged widow from being completely stipped of her ability from even bringing a case into court to seek the ability to even build on her own property!!! (TRPA vs Suitum, I believe)

Cited other cases, too... Not good!!! Especially in light of the awful decision just made by the SCOTUS!!!

[Darkwolf377]

I made it up on the spot. If you use it again, I expect $1 per use mailed to this address... ;)

[oprahstheantichrist]

"Tell her to contact Mark Levin, who is thrilled or Laura Ingraham equally so."

Ann DOES love to play devil's advocate....

[coulterfan1]

....maybe he was 'educated' by the Borking of Robert Bork and from 1987 onward has crafted a careful public record in preparation for this very day. I remember clearly thinking about that (in general) in 1987: that after the Senator from Chappaquidick had made 'borking' into a new noun in the English language, no lawyer who had hopes of a nomination to the SCOTUS would ever want to go on record with political opinions, conservative ideas, etc. I can't say whether Ann Coulter is right to worry - I don't know enough about him, which may itself lend support to her worries that he does have Souter potential (we would all KNOW it before now if he were someone certain to give the left fits). I'm cautiously optimistic, but I sure do hope he's more of a 'stealth' candidate for our side than for the Souters of the world.....

the only genuinely constructionist/conservative judges that have come along in my lifetime were already well known to be just that. there was no room for doubt. this is way too risky.

[coulterfan1]

Ann DOES love to play devil's advocate....

she wasn't playing. she sounded angrier than i've heard her in a long time.

[Enchante]

True, that's why I also said

"we would all KNOW it before now if he were someone certain to give the left fits"

I'm hoping there's more going on here and that he's not just a stealth Souter....

[SierraWasp]

But then, on the other hand...

[writer33]

I know.

[presently no screen name]

lol - more reason to celebrate!

[Allosaurs_r_us]

If they had any principles or made any sense it'd be worth bothering with them. Don't sweat it.

 

Good point! While I voted for W twice he has been lacking in several key points. He is still the best that was on the market at the time. I am hard pressed to think of another that could have handles himself any better during these trying times. There is no such thing as pleasing all the people all the time. I just wish he would stand up and do something, anything, with illegal immigration.

 

Actually I was hoping for a real hard liner for his first pick. I am just itchin to shove the DimWits filibuster down their throats. I'm so sick of obstructionists you'd think I had ptomaine. Jones is a slam dunk. The Dems can't hardly do anything but moan and groan a little since he has already passed their scrutiny within the last 2 years.

 

[Revolting cat!]

THIS JUST IN:

World to End Tonight!

Anyone interested?
I didn't think so.

[writer33]

We're doomed! We're all doomed! :)

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Jones is a slam dunk

 

Err Roberts is a slam dunk! I don't know where the heck I came up with Jones.......LOL

 

[Oliver Optic]

I'm hoping there's more going on here and that he's not just a stealth Souter

There's zero chance he is a Souter.

There's an outside chance he could become a Kennedy ... same is true of almost any nominee.

My take is that he's not quite a Scalia, most likely a Rehnquist ... and that's not half bad.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

willing to extend the Executive Branch wide flexibility in both its conduct of general official business and the War on Terror.

That is a BIGGIE!