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Roberts Nomination Sent to Full Senate
Associated Press ^ | 9/22/2005 | JESSE J. HOLLAND

Posted on 09/22/2005 12:22:20 PM PDT by kellynla

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved John Roberts' nomination as the next Supreme Court chief justice, virtually assuring his confirmation by the Senate next week.

The official tally of 13-5 was anticlimatic, with the committee's 10 majority Republicans lined up solidly behind the conservative judge's nomination to the full Senate weeks in advance.

But the decision by three Democrats to join Republican efforts to make Roberts the nation's 109th Supreme Court justice outlined the division in the minority caucus over whether Democrats can, or should, mount even symbolic opposition to Roberts to send President Bush a message on his next Supreme Court nomination.

Five Democrats — Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Joseph Biden of Delaware, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Charles Schumer of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois — opposed Roberts in the final vote, and many of the arguments merged with senators' worries about the upcoming replacement for the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor.

Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told reporters after the vote he thinks Bush may name a replacement for O'Connor within days of the final vote on Roberts.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan commended the committee "for moving forward in a civil and dignified way," noting the White House hopes this sets an example for considering Bush's second nomination to the court.

Liberal groups that had opposed Roberts expressed disappointment with the committee vote, with Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, singling out Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis.

He said the Wisconsin Democrat was the only member of his party on the committee who voted in favor of both John Ashcroft to become Bush's first attorney general and now Roberts. Neas said that Feingold's vote was a "tremendous mistake and a tremendous disappointment."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 109th; judiciary; roberts; robertshearings; senate; supremes
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To: Les_Miserables
Mitch Romney comes to mind tho I don't know his position on important issues. Border, 2nd Amend, Roe, PBA, Taxes, etc.

He is a LOSER

In 1994 he ran against Teddy . He was way ahead early in the polling so the boob giddy with the poll results comes out and says" I DON'T WANT THE SUPPORT OF THE EXTREMISTS NRA OR CHRISTIAN COALITION TYPES "

Hack politician
21 posted on 09/22/2005 1:49:30 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: kellynla
"Five Democrats — Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Joseph Biden of Delaware, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Charles Schumer of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois"

Yeah, 5 Democrats that hate President Bush so much they would sell the Country down the drain. And I bet these rats will be reelected when time comes. Just no hope for some American liberals. Hate blinds and it could destroy our society.
22 posted on 09/22/2005 2:17:50 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: kellynla
the 'Rats are keeping their powder dry for the next candidate... and that's when the proverbial manure will hit the fan.

In retrospect, then, Bush should have left Roberts as the replacement to O'Connor, since his nomination was so hard to fight. He would have an easier time arguing that a conservative to replace Rehnquist was acceptable.

Now he has allowed them to argue that a conservative judge replacing O'Connor "moves the court to the right."

23 posted on 09/22/2005 2:22:54 PM PDT by ez (What went wrong...Blanco kept the Red Cross out while Nagin kept the refugees in.)
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To: ez
In retrospect, then, Bush should have left Roberts as the replacement to O'Connor, since his nomination was so hard to fight. He would have an easier time arguing that a conservative to replace Rehnquist was acceptable. Now he has allowed them to argue that a conservative judge replacing O'Connor "moves the court to the right."

To argue thusly is to accept and enshrine bogus leftist cant. There is no precedent for any requirement that a nominee be ideologically similar to the departing justice, or that the existing "balance" of the court must be maintained. This is just leftist B.S. introduced at the present time because we have a President who has promised nominees more conservative than the current court. The "balance", such as it is, should result from the electorate electing successive Presidents based in part on their judicial philosophies. President Bush said what sort of jurists he would nominate, he was twice elected, so let's roll! Leftist propaganda should be scoffed at, rather than accomodated!

24 posted on 09/22/2005 2:44:05 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: uncbob

one down, but the search uh goes on


25 posted on 09/22/2005 4:04:37 PM PDT by Les_Miserables
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To: rogue yam
To argue thusly is to accept and enshrine bogus leftist cant.

It's not bogus when our own elected R's cater to it. Whether or not I accept it, they do. As long as they're going to shrink away from "bad press," they should consider that when planning.

Trust me, Roberts will be the most conservative judge Bush puts on the court now that he has done this backwards.

26 posted on 09/23/2005 12:54:25 PM PDT by ez (What went wrong...Blanco kept the Red Cross out while Nagin kept the refugees in.)
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