It is the president's place to mold the court.
I'm sure these same law professors twist the meaning of separation of church and state.
This sort of little girl happy crap is the reason I no longer spend good money to buy the Houston Chronicle
"Forget elections, forget the Constitution, just let us have our way" said the Democrats.
Since diversity is the most important thing in the world Bush should nominate Janice Rogers Brown.
Or Michael Luttig...
"Democrats need to make clear that since President Bush has already picked a conservative in Roberts for one vacancy, the other selection needs to be a more moderate Republican in the mold of O'Connor."
Republicans need to make clear that since President Bush won two national elections he can pick whomever he pleases.
I apologize to all and sundry that these two law professors who (perhaps deliberately) do not understand constitutional law, are from my state. There are some folks here including some laymen, who understand the Constitution better than these two shills for the Democrats.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "The Constitution is Finished: Not the US One, the Atlanta One"
Pick the youngest and most conservative and smartest strict constitutionalist he can find. So that person stays on long after Justice Stevens and Ginsberg are taking dirt naps.
So by their logic, no Supreme Court justice who disagreed with the Dred Scott decision should have been confirmed since 1857.
Interesting that these law professors at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, publish their liberal opinion in a Texas newspaper. Their lawyerer opinion is not sanctioned in the Constitution that I, a non-lawyer, have read and understand.
Democrats, and these law professors should read Federalist No. 66:
It will be the office of the President to NOMINATE, and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to APPOINT. There will, of course, be no exertion of CHOICE on the part of the Senate. They may defeat one choice of the Executive, and oblige him to make another; but they cannot themselves CHOOSE, they can only ratify or reject the choice of the President. They might even entertain a preference to some other person, at the very moment they were assenting to the one proposed, because there might be no positive ground of opposition to him; and they could not be sure, if they withheld their assent, that the subsequent nomination would fall upon their own favorite, or upon any other person in their estimation more meritorious than the one rejected. Thus it could hardly happen, that the majority of the Senate would feel any other complacency towards the object of an appointment than such as the appearances of merit might inspire, and the proofs of the want of it destroy.
Very odd.
Under the Constitution, the Senate, not just a minority party, has no right to "insist" on anything this way.
Being a minority party, the Democrats have no power to insist on this, even if they had the right.
The American people have spoken! When our citizenry voted him into office they entrusted President Bush (not Kerry, not Dean, not anyone else) with the decision of who gets nominated.
I don't think so. Roberts does not believe in the "Lost Constitution" doctrine (Scalia and Thomas). Instead, he says, "I don't have an overarching, uniform philosophy.", which means that he will respect the Congress as well as a lot of precedents. In short, he will not help the other conservative members of the Supreme Court, to reject "affirmative action" and abortion. On many issues (apart from business ones), he will agree with Kennedy. Which is not very conservative...
And after the demonrats have insisted on this... they will insist that the President provide them with his "potential nominees" to replace each existing SCOTUS justice should they die or quit their position!
It is about time to post the whining baby symbol of the Demonrats yet again!
What a load of bull hockey. These guys think they speak for the public. Last time I looked the President and the Senate were elected officials not two law professors at Duke who couldn't get elected dogcatchers in Durham.
The Democrats are making it up as they go along because they know the public will be turning them into a minority party for as far as the eye can see.
OK, Janice Rogers Brown.
Happy now?
Bumping for after work.......
From the land of Sheila Jackarse-Lee.
somebody tell the libs they have to win elections for them to implement this strategy
there will be a nuclear test on the senate floor in t minus ten, nine eight seconds and counting
oh how i hope that W elects judge brown if not ill settle for judge lutig
We then refuse to name our second nominee until they provide their planned votes for all possible nominees.
This is idiocy.
Only Republican Presidents have to obey the laws. Not Democrats, and especially not Xlinton.