the ONLY required input from the RAT's is their up or down confirmation VOTE!!!
Posted on 09/08/2005 4:43:05 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush should consult with senators before making his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Democratic leaders said Thursday.
Meanwhile, first lady Laura Bush is elbowing her husband once again to nominate a woman and others are pushing for a Hispanic.
The White House is working on finding a replacement for O'Connor, one of the swing votes on the Supreme Court. It took the Bush administration 18 days to make its initial choice after O'Connor announced her retirement.
Bush initially nominated federal appellate judge John Roberts to succeed O'Connor, but on Monday nominated him to succeed Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died Saturday. Roberts, who will make his last courtesy visits to senators on Friday, will begin his confirmation hearing on Monday.
``We call on you to engage in meaningful consultation with us to identify a candidate for this crucial position who will unite the country, not divide it,'' said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other Democrats in a letter to the White House.
Mrs. Bush, in an interview Thursday with American Urban Radio Networks, said she didn't think the president would announce his nominee for the second vacancy until after the Roberts confirmation process.
``I think the president is going to wait until John Roberts is confirmed before he nominates the next person,'' said Mrs. Bush, who was rooting for a female nominee when Bush nominated Roberts. ``As a woman myself, I hope it will be a woman.''
Democrats want Bush to look for a consensus nominee like O'Connor.
``I hope the next nominee selected meets the high standards set by Justice O'Connor, reveres and treasures the freedoms on which our nation was built, and can bring the nation together as she has done often,'' said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., in a separate letter to the White House.
The Hispanic National Bar Association is strongly urging the president to nominate a Hispanic.
``The time in our country's history has come where our Supreme Court needs to better reflect the diversity of America,'' said Alan Varela, president of the Hispanic Bar. ``President Bush bypassed the estimated 41.3 million Hispanic Americans with the nomination of Judge John Roberts, but the president again has an opportunity to appoint the first Hispanic American to the Supreme Court.''
of course they do. They can't have it. They lost the election. What is there about the word LOST that is so difficult for the Democrats to understand.
Oh, he could consult with the dem's before hand. I think the conversation should go something like this:
BUSH: "Hey, Nancy and Hillary, should I wear this red tie, or this blue one?
PELOSI/CLINTON: "Well, the red one is nice. Yeah, the red one."
BUSH: "Okay, now sit down and shut the hell up while I nominate this guy."
W should have a couple low level staffers should go on a Senate listening tour...
the ONLY required input from the RAT's is their up or down confirmation VOTE!!!
Scalia's not young, has a large family, and probably wants to spend a few years on the rubber chicken circuit.
'Rats can have input in convincing RBG to retire and be replaced with someone less extreme and more in touch with the mainstream of the US.
Win a presidential election, Democrats, then you will have input. Till then your only input is an up or down vote.
Sure consult REPUBLICAN Senators like Santorum, and Kyl and Allen and company. Ever notice how emotionally needy the Center to Left Senators are?
WHAAAA W doesn't pay enough attention to us. Whaa..Consult with us!!!!WE ARE IMPORTANT!
W's basic problem is he really believes in the separation of powers. He does his job, they should just be doing theirs. It would seem the bulk of the US Senate does NOT agree.
Actually, I agree with that.
How's about open mouth, INPUT sock
Translation: White men need not apply, no matter how qualified. Makes me proud.
Do tell.... like what?
It is sad -- pathetic, really -- to see Laura getting sucked into the liberals' game by repeating her previous comment that she wants a woman.
As for Kennedy's comment about the "freedoms on which our country was built" ... Anyone who thinks that America was built on the right to abortion is too stupid to have any voice in the confirmation process. Geez ...
But consider this possibility: To Kennedy and his ilk, America means only the America that was created by the liberal socioeconomic revolutions of the 20th century. Any other America is not alien, but an object of the Rats' enmity and contempt.
I mean: "not ONLY alien, but an object of the Rats' enmity and contempt."
"Judge Edith Brown Clement was born in Birmingham, Alabama and educated at the University of Alabama, receiving her B.A. in 1969, and at Tulane Law School, where she received a J.D. in 1972. Her early career included a period clerking for Judge Herbert W. Christenberry at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1973-1975), after which she worked as a maritime attorney in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana until 1991.
On October 1, 1991 Clement was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by George H.W. Bush. She was confirmed by the Senate to this post on November 21, 1991 (by a vote of 99-0), and received commission on November 25, 1991. In 2001 she served as chief judge of this court, before being nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.<
She was nominated to her current seat on September 4, 2001 by President George W. Bush, was confirmed by the Senate on November 13, 2001 by a vote of 99-0, and received her commission on November 26, 2001.
Judge Clement is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the Federal Bar Association, the American Law Institute, the Federalist Society, the Tulane Law School's Inn of Court, and the Committee on the Administrative Office of the Judicial Conference of the United States."
"Judge Edith Brown Clement was born in Birmingham, Alabama and educated at the University of Alabama, receiving her B.A. in 1969, and at Tulane Law School, where she received a J.D. in 1972. Her early career included a period clerking for Judge Herbert W. Christenberry at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1973-1975), after which she worked as a maritime attorney in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana until 1991.
On October 1, 1991 Clement was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by George H.W. Bush. She was confirmed by the Senate to this post on November 21, 1991 (by a vote of 99-0), and received commission on November 25, 1991. In 2001 she served as chief judge of this court, before being nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.<
She was nominated to her current seat on September 4, 2001 by President George W. Bush, was confirmed by the Senate on November 13, 2001 by a vote of 99-0, and received her commission on November 26, 2001.
Judge Clement is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the Federal Bar Association, the American Law Institute, the Federalist Society, the Tulane Law School's Inn of Court, and the Committee on the Administrative Office of the Judicial Conference of the United States."
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