SOUTER IN ROBERTS CLOTHING, ANN COULTER

Ann Coulter.com ^ | 7-30-05 | Ann Coulter

[MeanWestTexan]

The theme response to no-real Catholics and/or real conservative Protestants this must be:

U.S. Constitution, Article. VI, Clause 3:

" . . . and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but NO RELIGIOUS TEST shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Pretty good idea from a freemason, that.

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Justice Ginsburg is rather friendly with Justice Scalia and his wife. So, by your criteria, I can feel confident that Justice Ginsburg will be a reliable member of the originalists on the Court?

[BadAndy]

"I agree with Ann 100%. I won't pop the corks over this nomination because I don't find anything to celebrate over."

I agree. This guy was not on any of the conservatives "dream list". No one talked about him and hoped he would be the candidate. Yet as soon as he was named virtually all the freepers were wildly supporting him. I would have preferred for Bush to name a wild-eyed dyed in the wool conservative and gone through a hellacious confirmation process and gotten a sure thing. I hope Bush didn't screwed this up royal like his daddy.

[Dane]

Ann's pissed, becuase she believed her own press and she wasn't nominated.

This article is not one of her finest moments.

[RobFromGa]

Rush up in about an hour...

I also look forward to Steyn's take.

[dc-zoo]

She may be hard to please but she sure has one heluva long neck.

[MeanWestTexan]

Are you SURE he is a member of the Federalist Society?

Dear God, I hope this is true.

[evets]

yikes

[NeoCaveman]

Write in haste, repent at leisure.

[Desdemona]

Normally, Ann makes some good points, but I think she can't see the forest for the trees in this case.

Somewhere else on this forum I read a theory that's plausible - this may well have been a move/deal designed to get Rehnquist's real replacement in before he retires.

I have no doubt Roberts will do well and be a conservative. Ann needs to think this through a bit more before being rash.

[Lancey Howard]

Conservatism is sweeping the nation, we have a fully functioning alternative media, we’re ticked off and ready to avenge Robert Bork . . . and Bush nominates a Rorschach blot.

I agree with Ann - - Roberts makes me a little nervous. One more disgraceful scumbag like Souter could do irreparable damage to the nation. It is simply not worth taking a chance.

[Armando Guerra]

In a brief before the Supreme Court (Rust v. Sullivan, 500 US 173, 1991), Roberts wrote:

Unfortunately, this is not a valid point as to what the attorney's beliefs are. What an attorney argues before the court representing a client is the client's position not the attorney's. Look more to the attorney's extra-judicial statements and actions to gauge his/her's true beliefs. In this sense, this is where I believe Anne is correct. The stealth-candidates who have said nothing openly so are not controversial are truly unknown quantities. To look at who they have represented or worked with is not always a good indicator and leads to Souteresque picks.

Personally, I think the Republicans should have used the nuclear option. My hope is that the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot on this one. If they go overboard, filibuster, and prevent this nomination, then the Republicans may actually grow some cojones and change the rules on the grounds that this was not an extraordinary circumstance. If that happens, then you will see some really outspoken well-known conservatives going through. I think Rehnqust has not announced his retirement waiting to see what happens here. If he feels confident that Bush will be able to get a true conservative confirmed, he will step down.

[traderrob6]

Update III: We are happy campers here. He is a strong conservative, a member of the Federalist society and the National Legal Center For The Public Interest, serving on the latter group's Legal Advisory Council and he's only 50 yrs old.

[JZelle]

I see more Alec Baldwin there. Sorry.

[HawaiianGecko]

 

 

	Ann was looking for a nomination that would cause an "in your face slap" to the liberals. I even found myself hoping for an appointment that would evoke the nuclear option. The administration is going to get what we all want, a more conservative court, but they will do it without a huge partisan fight. I voted for Bush so HE can run this country. Not for him to sit around and poll my opinion every day. I trust his decisions to be based upon what's best, whether I like it or not.

 

[wardaddy]

Yo tambien.

[Nonstatist]

His wife is telling --- active in prolife.

I think that counts for more than people may realize.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I hope y'all are right and I end up dead wrong. In these days, however, I look for a knife in every handshake...

[TAdams8591]

"It means nothing that Roberts wrote briefs arguing for the repeal of Roe v. Wade when he worked for Republican administrations. He was arguing on behalf of his client, the United States of America. Roberts has specifically disassociated himself from those cases, dropping a footnote to a 1994 law review article that said:

“In the interest of full disclosure, the author would like to point out that as Deputy Solicitor General for a portion of the 1992-93 Term, he was involved in many of the cases discussed below. In the interest of even fuller disclosure, he would also like to point out that his views as a commentator on those cases do not necessarily reflect his views as an advocate for his former client, the United States.”

My sibling who is happy about Roberts, made the same cautionary point above. I hope Ann is wrong.

I do think there were far more red flags about Souter. And his nomination was not as hailed by conservatives, as Roberts nomination has been, though I do understand Ann's point that Roberts seems to have carefuly avoided controversy.

We shall see.

[Biblebelter]

Ann is right, he is a stealth candidate. She is also right that Republicans have had no luck with such candidates. I am somewhat reassured by Mark Levin's endorsement, but he is not infallible. I hope Bush's strategy is to nominate his safest conservative choice for the first seat, and to really rattle the liberal's cage on the second choice. David Boies was on Scarborough last night and he was too comfortable with Roberts for me to be comfortable.