Posted on 09/15/2005 6:33:45 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Now that President Bush has named appeals court Judge John Roberts to replace pro-life Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he must pull another name of out his hat to sit on the Supreme Court. Speculation in Washington is that Bush will name a woman or a minority -- or both -- to take the seat of outgoing pro-abortion Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
To the delight of pro-life advocates, the names of several pro-life women top the list of likely choices.
In a syndicated column on Monday, pro-life columnist Bob Novak reports that Judge Priscilla Owen, a pro-life advocate who sits on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is Bush's stop prospect. Novak says Owen had a hush-hush meeting with the president last week.
As a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, Owen pleased pro-life advocates when she ruled against allowing teenagers to use the bypass provision of the state's parental involvement on abortion law. She said the teens were not mature enough to have the abortions and that the abortions were not in their best interest.
When Bush appointed Owen to the appellate court, she was one of several pro-life nominees that became victims of filibusters by Senate Democrats over abortion. Eventually, a group of 14 Democrats and Republicans struck a compromise to allow votes on the nominees in exchange for not changing Senate rules on stopping filibusters.
The Senate eventually approved Owen on a 55 to 43 vote with abortion advocates opposing her.
Novak writes that appeals court Judge Edith Clement of the 5th Circuit "was the runner-up to Roberts in the first selection process, but the word in legal circles is that she did not do well in her interview with the president and now is out of the picture."
Clement is described as a conservative jurist in the mold of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, that Bush favors. However, she does not have a long list of opinions on which abortion advocates could criticize.
Novak says pro-life Judge Edith Jones, also of the 5th Circuit, is another possibility as is Judge Karen Williams of the 4th Circuit, considered one of the most conservative of the women judges.
When the 5th Circuit denied a request last October by Norma McCorvey to approve her motion to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling, Judge Jones issued an opinion blasting the Supreme Court's opinion in Roe and saying it needs to be re-examined.
She called Roe an "exercise of raw judicial power," and cited evidence McCorvey presented showing abortions hurt women. Jones, a Reagan nominee, wrote that the "[Supreme] Court's rulings have rendered basic abortion policy beyond the power of our legislative bodies."
If Bush chooses to go with a minority who is not a woman, speculation is that Judge Emilio Garza is at the top of the list.
Garza is a federal appeals court judge on the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Garza's opposition to abortion is beyond question. He wrote two separate opinions explicitly criticizing Roe v. Wade and suggesting it be overturned.
I don't know what "n/p" means.
Who is the YOUNGEST potential appointee?
Yes, she is my candidate also. She would be perfect on so many different levels. She is a real conservative, I know others are also. However, she is intelligent, articulate, attractive, cool under pressure and she just happens to be an African-American.
The news clips of the bloated Senator Ted "the leering drunk" Kennedy berating her on civil rights, feminist and economic issues would be priceless. She is the daughter of sharecroppers and has achieved professional glory without government handouts and affirmative action policies.
I want to hear Senator Turbin tell her that she cannot relate to the poor, downtrodden and minorities. I want Senator "Plagerizer" Biden to tell her that she has no idea what it takes for the under priviledged to be successful in America. And then I want all America to see how all the DemoRats "beat up" on a friendly, intelligent, articulate, attractive black woman.
I hope Bush "jams" the DemoRats and nominates her. My fingers are crossed.
Why don't we just fence them in like the Palestinians
and be done with it !A forty foot wall around New York City sounds good and we could move the freaks from Gaytown
to Oakland and blow up the bay bridge .
What would you expect from the Grand Wizzer of the KKK
How come all of these birds from the Black only NAACP vote liberal if their senior bird,bird is a black killing former KKK recruiter ,Huh
In the NAACP Its more important to be liberal than Black !!!
M. T. Thor, huh, which circuit does he sit on? And this other one, Von Der Woman, sounds German or Dutch!
Seriously it's time again for Bob Bork! Tanned, rested and ready!!!
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/store/BorktheCourt.26684006
No I want karl he will give them hell when
ever he passes his next Kidney stone !
Karl Christian Rove for SCOTUS he is the man for
America !!Dump Ginsburg and Souter we need real
Americans on our court !Ginsburg is from Brooklyn
just like Slick Schumer !
I did not know that.
I guess O'Neil gets the last laugh.
PS The editors of the New Republic have endorsed Roberts for confirmation "with reservations"!
According to the article's headline and pre-login summary
http://tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20050926&s=editorial092605
Mister Roberts
by the Editors
Post date 09.15.05 | Issue date 09.26.05
During the confirmation hearings of John Roberts, Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee were palpably uncomfortable. They had before them a conservative nominee whose political history concerns many liberals; but the Republicans won the last election, the wages of Ohio sat before them, and this able and judicious nominee is as much in the way of right-wing moderation as they could expect. Roberts is indubitably the lesser of conservative evils. As one commentator sagely observed, Roberts is not the man whom liberals would have chosen, but he is not the man whom liberals feared....
Doesn't help us much if Roberts isn't enough of an originalist to uphold serious abortion restrictions.
To even begin knocking Roe into the ground, we need BOTH
appointees to be solid originalists. Roberts' testimony
has not been reassuring. If he turns out to be solid,
great. If not, Bush has failed badly on the most important domestic issue of his presidency.
Same here. Here's hoping...
But I would like to see him on a court somewhere. He deserves it. I think whatever happened was unfair to him. Anyone who can put up with the MSM moonbats for a year without ever losing his cool has demonstrated that he has whatever is needed in the way of judicial temperament.
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