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To: You Dirty Rats

4 of the last 7 SC GOP appointments have turned out to be liberals. Roberts looks to be another. It for reasons lie this that I am no longer a loyal GOP voter.


103 posted on 08/05/2005 12:22:34 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb
Great, then let the 'Rats win and the odds will be 100% liberal. I suppose THAT will make you happy.

If you think Roberts will be as bad as Breyer and Ginsberg, then I hope life on your planet is better than here.

107 posted on 08/05/2005 12:25:55 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats
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4 of the last 7 SC GOP appointments have turned out to be liberals.

For what it's worth, not all of them were when they went up there.

It's a well-known phenomenon that liberals try to poach a Justice once they get up there. CBS's Supreme Court reporter, interviewed on another show, commented on the tendency of conservative Justices to "drift to the left" once they're appointed; he also said that there is no countervailing "drift to the right" that has ever been noticed in any liberal Court appointee.

This "drift", or subversion actually, has happened in several cases, most notoriously Kennedy's and Souter's, as well as Stevens's. In Kennedy's case, he was heavily lobbied behind the scenes through the law-clerk system. Some of the law clerks are activists and lobby the Justices by their selection of precedent and relevant law. In addition, Robert Novak reported Kennedy's being lobbied personally, one-on-one, by the dean of Harvard Law at an international judicial convention in Vienna, on the revisitation of Roe vs. Wade.

In Souter's case, the seduction was social, as mega-Democrat social doyenne (the late) Pamela Harriman "fixed him up" once he got to Washington and turned him into a star of the liberal party circuit, which turned his head and turned him into a liberal by social contamination. Novak reported that Souter, too, proved amenable to back-channel lobbying via the clerk system, which is often field-generaled by the clerks' former law-school deans, particularly so in the case of Harvard grads.

In short, liberals will leave no stone unturned in their constant efforts to poach Supreme Court votes and Justices for their point of view on everything.

135 posted on 08/05/2005 2:59:36 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: jpsb
4 of the last 7 SC GOP appointments have turned out to be liberals. Roberts looks to be another. It for reasons lie this that I am no longer a loyal GOP voter.

How many of his decisions have you read? How many of the 75,000 pages released by the White House have you read? What about his award winning college essays? How many people who have known him for 30 years have you talked too? On what grounds do you make the statement that Roberts looks to you to be liberal?

153 posted on 08/05/2005 7:49:38 PM PDT by msnimje
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