Posted on 07/19/2005 5:06:14 PM PDT by Mo1
Edited on 07/19/2005 5:10:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
New thread time
Works for me.
It makes all my work last fall worthwhile.
John Roberts
Seppuku?
Following his clerkship experience, Mr. Roberts served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General William French Smith. In 1982 President Reagan appointed Mr. Roberts to the White House Staff as Associate Counsel to the President, a position in which he served until joining Hogan & Hartson in 1986. Mr. Roberts’ responsibilities as Associate Counsel to the President included counseling on the President’s constitutional powers and responsibilities, as well as other legal issues affecting the executive branch.
The lefts heads just exploded!!!
I am watching Nancy Grace on Headline News, and somebody on the show said the announcement is being made to take the heat off the Rove story. I had to laugh! Just like your point about nobody but political junkies knowing who Joe Wilson was, the only people who really care about the so-called Rove scandal are the MSM and the hard left.
I like the Rove/CIA stuff. The more they whine about it the more the actual truth seeps through and everyone realizes Rove didn't do anything and that Joe Wilson, with help from the left, tried to "catch" Bush by making up lies.
The Niger trip was a scam from the beginning and given Wilson was still a government employee (or was he) he should be tried for treason.
Feminists for Life.....LOL...this is gonna be great....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446029/posts?page=2645#2645
GREAT POST!
It's a CONSERVATIVE WHITE MAN!!!!!
I'd offer them advice on how to do it, but there is probably a law against that...
Torie, I know you gotta be liking this pick. :-}
As Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts argued in a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in Rust v.Sullivan1(a case that did not implicate Roe v. Wade) that "[w]e continue to believe that Roe waswrongly decided and should be overruled.... [T]he Court's conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion... finds no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution."
2Roberts, again as Deputy Solicitor General, even intervened as an amicus curiae for the United States in support of the extreme anti-choice group Operation Rescue and six individuals, who routinely blocked access to reproductive health care clinics. Intervening as amicus is a whollydiscretionary decision on the part of the Solicitor General, yet here the government chose to involve itself in a case in support of those who sought to deprive women of the right to choosethrough massive, often violent, blockades.
In Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic.3Roberts argued that the protesters' behavior did not amount to discrimination against women, even though only women could exercise the right to seek an abortion. Roberts argued that the blockades were mere expression of opposition to abortion.
4(The year after Bray was rendered, Congress enacted the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to protect women and health care providers from violence and harassment. 5)
Bray, like Rust v. Sullivan, did not implicate Roe v. Wade but was only concerned with whether a federal civil rights statute provided a remedy for women seeking access to clinics. Yet the Supreme Court was so accustomed to the Solicitor General and the Deputy Solicitor General arguing for the overturn of Roe that during Mr. Roberts' oral argument before the Supreme Court in Bray, a Justice asked, "Mr. Roberts, in this case are you asking that Roe v. Wade be overruled?" He responded, "No, your honor, the issue doesn't even come up." To this the justice said, "Well that hasn't prevented the Solicitor General from taking that position in prior cases."
6As noted above, we have based our opposition on Mr. Robert's demonstrated hostility to a woman's constitutional right to choose and his narrow view of the constitution's role in protecting individual rights. The Senate should not confirm the nomination of John Roberts to the UnitedStates Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Sincerely, Kate Michelman President Notes 1. 500 U.S. 173 (1991). 2. Brief for the Respondent at 13, Rust v. Sullivan, 500 U.S. 173 (1991) (Nos. 89-1391, 89-1392). 3. 506 U.S. 263 (1993). 4. Transcript of Oral Reargument of John Roberts, Jr., dated Oct. 6, 1992, Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic, 506 U.S. 263 (1993) (No. 90-985). 5. HR 796/S 636, 1994. 6. Transcript of Oral Argument of John Roberts, Jr., dated Oct. 16, 1991, Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic, 506 U.S. 263(1993) (No. 90-985).
NARAL "JGR is an unsuitable choice"
Me: Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.
She also made a couple of her ever-so-stupid comments; talked about the 18M the conservative groups will spend to support him, and that "in their venacular" it is to make sure he isn't "borked". What an idiot she is.
thanks Fudd!
I love it!
Now the POTUS has to lay the case out tonight for a legitimate confirmation process without delay, stalling, etc and the right of the nominee to have an up/down vote. If he does this well on prime time then he will have hampered the democrats somewhat as the public will support the process to it's conclusion, imo.
The Bully Pulpit is his tonight and hopefully he'll use it to it's fullest.
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