Posted on 09/25/2005 5:04:57 AM PDT by pookie18
If Edith Jones is nominated for the Supreme Court, at least she'll know what she's in for. The confirmation process for federal judges has deteriorated into "trench warfare," she told The American Enterprise magazine in June. "Every time I think it can't get any worse, it does."
John Roberts's confirmation may be the exception that proves Judge Jones's rule. During his hearings, Sens. Arlen Specter and Dianne Feinstein asked insulting questions about his Catholicism; Ted Kennedy called his Reagan-era writings "mean-spirited"; and several Democrats roughed him up over his views on civil rights. By modern standards, that's a love fest.
But the next confirmation is another matter. In selecting a nominee, one factor the White House must weigh is who would have the best chance of surviving what is sure to be a fight and, probably, a filibuster attempt.
It's all the more interesting since the nominee weathering Ted Kennedy's attacks may be of the same sex as Mary Jo Kopechne. There are 10 or so women whose names come up as possibilities for the Court, including Edith Clement of the Fifth Circuit, whose reported nomination faked everyone out on the day Judge Roberts was named, and appeals-court judges Karen Williams, Diane Sykes and Consuelo Callahan.
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I thought the Roberts hearings were rather comical.
Roberts was so obviously smarter that no amount of trying to quote him out of context or manipulation of the statements made by the minority's senators can hide that fact.
Mornin' Pookster...the next nomination will indeed be a brawl in the committee, but it will be between the two parties, not between the Dems and the nominee.. Several GOP senators, notably Graham, have put down clearcut markers, and in the alternating question style, after every vicious Dem attack, I expect the following Pubbie to take on the Dem senator head first..
That's why Janice Rogers Brown has to be the next nominee.
Can you see the Democrat's wailing that Bush didn't send them someone as smart or smarter than that white guy that was just nominated.
Neither can I. She would rip the veil open.
Chuckie and Durbin just pissed me off. They were constantly trying to find out what "causes" Judge Roberts supports and he keep coming back that as a Judge he supports neither side of a cause and rules solely on the law. The two D#$ks couldn't get it through their thick skulls.
Right. I relish an all-out battle over her or similar. It will expose the Dims ignorance and vitriole even more.
Janice Rogers Brown !
Janice Rogers Brown !
Janice Rogers Brown !
Keep it going until the Kennedy Gang runs and covers thewir ears.
Janice Rogers Brown !
Janice Rogers Brown !
Janice Rogers Brown !
I spent a few minutes reading up on Consuelo Callahan , (the name piqued my interest). The Dems, (Leaky Leahy & Diamond Feinstein), like her, she's Hispanic and she's a tap dancer as well.
I still like Mark Levin for the next spot!
yea, yea, yea...I know, keep dreamin'! LOL
The two D#$ks are stuck on stupid.
One man's opinion......Bush should nominate Janice Rogers Brown, an outstanding conservative. If the Dems filibuster Judge Brown they will have trouble with many Afro-Americans. A Brown filibuster could trigger the "nuclear option" led by no other than John McCain, who will become the odds-on favorite to get the GOP nomination.
Also, Janice Rogers Brown was very well tempered during her first confirmation hearing.
Lindsay Graham also says that Bush should do what he said by nominating someone in the mold of Thomas & Scalia. If he does that, let the games begin!!! I like Brown, Jones, Luttig & a few others...just hoping the prez doesn't back down...
BTW..here's my long shot prediction..after the 2nd noinee is confirmed, after the nuclear option in invoked...W will re-nominate Estrada to the DC Circuit, to replace Roberts..And that's the Dems WORST nightmare..a youg guy on the court that in many ways is more important than SCOTUS..
And because she is conservative, I wouldn't expect her to be nominated. Decisions based on her views, along with Scalia and Thomas, with a swing vote from the new Chief Justice and one of the liberals, could very well shut down half the government Republicans are claiming to 'fix'. Her decisions could very well be a threat to Republicans and Democrats. Those 537 examples of mediocrity would end up having nothing to do with their time and even less to do with our money
Miguel Estrada is another I'd like to see nominated to SCOTUS, but not sure he'd want to go through that again :-(
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