Posted on 10/09/2005 9:10:09 AM PDT by Crackingham
In an interview set for broadcast on Monday, leading conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia appears to be defending Harriet Miers against critics who say she doesn't have the qualifications to sit on the High Court.
"I think it's a good thing to have people from all sorts of backgrounds [on the Court]," Scalia tells CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, as the debate rages over Miers' lack of judical experience.
Without mentioning the Bush nominee by name, the conservative legal icon said that the High Court needed someone who had never served as a judge to take the place of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
"There is now nobody with that [non judicial] background after the death of the previous chief," Scalia laments to Bartiromo.
"And the reason that's happened, I think, is that the nomination and confirmation process has become so controversial, so politicized that I think a president does not want to give the opposition an easy excuse [to say] 'Well, this person has no judicial experience.'" Scalia concludes: "I don't think that's a good thing. I think the Byron Whites, the Lewis Powells and the Bill Rehnquists have contributed to the court even though they didn't sit on a lower federal court."
So if he is so smart according to you, why don't you trust him? hmmmmm
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Trust him for WHAT? He hasn't said anything about her conservative credentials or her judicial philosophy.
Now if he came out and said she has the same judicial philosophy as I do, then he would have said something of substance. This is just general thoughts on judicial nominees.
Though it is comforting to know we are in GOOD company, I dare say on the part of most of us, our decision to oppose Miers' nomination has NOTHING to do with the opinions of pundits or politicians.
And if he did come out and say what you think he should have, just what do you think the OLD MEDIA would have done with that. Supreme Court justices do not recommend others. They respond as generally as they can without being accused of making a statement. hello!!!!
There you go. Now, we can all be happy. :-)
RuHe said it wasn't the best pick? Really, not what I heard.
Maybe he thinks it's not the best "conservative pick" but that's not the same thing. He himself said he was remaining "neutral".
So if your argument was stupid and I said it was stupid, then it's my fault for not getting your point? joke
Because she is way cuter looking than Wolf Blitzer.
Which candidates without judge experience would you recommend?
Surely he understands he is helping her cause by speaking out at this time. If he had serious reservations, wouldn't it be better to say "no comment"?
"RuHe said it wasn't the best pick? Really, not what I heard.
Maybe he thinks it's not the best "conservative pick" but that's not the same thing"
You just said he was "neutral", but what hes said this week isn't. You said: "its not the same thing" --Translation: "Im moving the goalposts to fit my prior assertion"
Try again.
"So if your argument was stupid and I said it was stupid, then it's my fault for not getting your point? joke"
The only joke here is your lack of logic.
Move along now, pom-poms in hand.
I'm not a "conservative"...never claimed to be. I'm here because I support President Bush.
So don't mock me for your supposed standards. If someone says they KNOW 100% FOR A FACT that Miers is not of this caliber, they have the burden of proof to prove it. Your trying to shame me is just a loser tactic.
But they aren't nominated, are they?
At any given time, there is ALWAYS somebody MORE qualified for any given job.
I'm sure there is somebody in Pennsyvlania more qualified to be a senator than Arlen Specter, but most of us live in the REAL world and realize you have to deal with who is either in the job or in line for the job.
She's the pick that is going to be approved. Conservative candidates would never be....so your argument is moot.
No, he's pushing forward something thats untrue. Anyone who listened to Rush this week knows he is not really neutral on this. He's not NEAR as forceful as some of the other pundits have been in their opposition, so in that sense I guess you could say he's been "neutral" compared to them. LOL
Now you're just proving to everybody just how dumb and desperate you are.
He is remaing NEUTRAL because that is the way this is handled, unless, of course, you, in your endless pit of wisdom, can provide a link for ANY other Supreme Court justice coming out in SUPPORT of any nominee.
Got one? If not, stop saying stupid stuff like that.
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