Posted on 10/07/2005 3:50:01 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Your decision to play thread nanny the last couple of days is getting old.
I've found this various places, but there is a very good collection that includes this and other Miers info linked from Hugh Hewitt at President Aristotle
Miers' paper trail: gun control.
Pattrick Ruffinini notes that Miers strongly defended the Second Amendment in the aftermath of some senseless shootings in Texas: Miers declared: "The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs."
Adds David Kopel, "As far as I know, you have to go back to Louis Brandeis to find a Supreme Court nominee whose pre-nomination writing extolled the right of armed self-defense."
I am no fan of Orrin Hatch. If there is a life form lower than lawyers (with apologies to the many principled lawyers out there) it has to be politicians who deal with the judicial process of this government.
Just because he is a Senator, and a Senator on the Judiciary committee doesn't automatically make him even a decent legal brain. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that she has a better grasp of it than he does.
Look at the people on there; Kennedy, Schumer, FEINSTEIN!!!! I mean, hey, Kennedy does have a grasp of what law is all about, how else could he have dodged Chappaquiddick?
Folks I think this thread is bogus...I can find no link and MSNBC list Tucker Carlson's show on later in the evening and there is no reference to a show on the 7th..... WHERE DID THE TRANSCRIPT COME FROM??
However, that does not diminish his perfectly legitimate criticism of Miers one jot, or make his strong reservations any less valid. Probably, but I would say that his opinion is tainted some what.
This nomination is a loser, She will be confirmed, so the nomination is not a "loser", by that criteria.
and even the most ardent advocates of it realize that at some subconscious level. High disappointment is how I feel about this selection. However, I do believe that she will serve 'adequately', provide a solid conservative vote for 15-20 yrs. and will not live up to the rhetoric we are hearing against her today.
Do you realize what he has done since his Borking?, NOTHING but complaining.
;)
It is perfectly fine that you disagree with Judge Bork, but he did, in fact, "make it." Maybe not to the Supreme Court (other than to try 41 cases in front of the Highest Court in the land [which is 41 cases more than Miss Miers]), but he does know of what he speaks.
Robert H. Bork to Join Law Faculty
Robert H. Bork, former circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, solicitor general and acting attorney general under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and author of two New York Times bestsellers about American society and law, will join the faculty of the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law next fall.
As Distinguished Professor of American Law and Culture, Bork will teach a fall course in constitutional law theory for law students and undergraduates.
"Judge Bork is one of the most prominent and controversial American legalintellectuals of modern times," Smolla said in announcing the appointment. "He is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservative constitutional law thinkers in America."
Harry L. Carrico, senior justice of the Virginia Supreme Court and visiting professor at Richmond’s law school, said, "With his vast experience and recognized scholarship, Judge Bork will bring to his classes a wealth of knowledge and fresh approach that will make his lectures outstanding."
Bork developed his theories of constitutional law while professor at Yale Law School, where he was Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law. His work emphasized remaining faithful to the text of the Constitution and to the "original understanding" of the framers. He is also an exponent of "neutral principles" of constitutional law, a concept that attempts to separate constitutional interpretation from partisan politics and ideology.
Bork has argued 41 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and played central roles in two pivotal events of modern American history. At the height of the Watergate controversy, as the third-highest official in the Department of Justice, he implemented President Nixon's order to dismiss Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Bork then appointed Leon Jaworski to succeed Cox. Bork is perhaps best known for one of the most polarizing episodes in the history of nominations to the Supreme Court. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated him for associate justice.
While universally acknowledged as an accomplished scholar, lawyer and judge, his nomination became a battleground for American culture wars over the meaning of the Constitution. Then-Chief Justice Warren Burger said of Bork, "I do not think in more than 50 years since I was in law school that there has ever been a nomination of a man or woman any better qualified than Judge Bork."
The Senate ultimately voted against confirmation, and Bork's failed nomination became a synonym for the infiltration of highly partisan ideological politics in the judicial selection process. Although known to the American public largely for his role in history and conservative views, Bork is also a highly accomplished antitrust law scholar and lawyer. He earned bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Chicago and served in the Marine Corps.
http://law.richmond.edu/news/20040213_bork.htm
Yowch! One would think old-timers would know better than to badmouth Mark Levin on FR.
They have no idea where he stood on some important Constitutional issues. I know he was anti 2A and IIRC (I could be wrong) he wasn't too great on the 4thA either.
Don't do that again. You know better. Press release or not - content from MSNBC is to be excerpted and linked.
Slugs, Crago, slugs. You're not sophisticated enough to be a thug.
Saying that Miers has a "lack of character" when you don't know a damned thing about her is what a slug would say.
By the way-I hope my response didn't come off as an attack on you! Your point is valid, I was making mine and trying to be entertaining...:) So if it sounds that way, it was most certainly not meant that way!
I happen to have a Bork quote about the second amendment. Wanna see it?
"[The] National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding. - Robert H. Bork, former Federal Appeals Court Judge (Distinguished Lecture Series, UC Irvine, 3/14/89)
I believe I can, but I've just had a very hard 36 hours dealing with some problems with my most recent corneal transplant. I'm a bit burned out right now, but I'll try to track down my sources for the Levin/Bork consult on O'Connor and Kennedy.
In general you do know that both advised Reagan on his supreme court pics, right?
I've already posted a note about the Miers quote on being pro 2nd amendement. I'll also dig for the specific quotes where Bork disses it.
Tomorrow...
I'm not certain of that, although I agree it would be smart of them. Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden really can't help themselves - they are reflexively negative. The Republicans on the JC might be even nastier in this case - unless they have assurances from the White House that she is utterly trustworthy. (Bad memories of Souter still linger).
Just saw your post. Good point. We need verification.
Here I found it for ya.
Turns out that like Rush, Marc Levin, Bork, and just about every other conservative, Laura Ingraham (on the radio on WABC in New York as I write this, highly intelligent, clerked for Justice Thomas) is against the HM nomination. Are we ALL trolls? Have conservatives been taken over by Invasion of the Body Snatchers pod people?
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