Posted on 10/12/2005 12:26:51 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
MIERS & LAST-MINUTE DROP-OUTS [Kathryn Jean Lopez] A journalist friend just spoke with a top Texas lawyer who spoke with Priscilla Owen last week. He says that she "most emphatically" did not withdraw her name from consideration to the Court. If the White House spin is that Harriet Miers got the job because nobody else wanted it, it would seem that the White House is at a desperation point. Posted at 12:07 PM
Trust your Platoon Sergeant and he trust his soldiers. I trust President Bush and he trust us
"If she is an originalist, where is the proof of this?"
you misinterpret. I meant that HE believes she is. We will soon have a chance to make up our own minds...
Trying once more in the last days of his administration, Tyler withdrew the King and Walworth nominations and sent in the names of John Meredith Read of Philadelphia and Samuel Nelson of New York. Nelson was confirmed and served on the bench for twenty-seven years, but the Senate did not act on the Read nomination.The cloture abuse in the 108th Congress did not occur in the last days of GWB's administration. Now, of course, there is a time factor in there somewhere. It is sill to say that a nomination offered on the last minute has to be acted on. Or last day, or final week, and so on. I don't where the line is, that it appears the Senate's acts are at odds with the balance of powers scheme the Constitution is meant to obtain.
McCain may be pro-life, but (1) he "owes" Bush for slights real or imagined; (2) he likes being a star and media fawning; (3) given his pride in McCain-Feingold, he has little incentive to want strict constructionists on the court (he probably read Scalia's dissent on the decision upholding it).
Excellent summation and insight. Thank you. Fingers crossed.
We will soon have a chance to make up our own minds...
"Priscilla Owen is a quality candidate.
Harriet Miers is a crony candidate. "
Personally, at this point, I'd only be happy with a while, male, European...
okay. that's not true. Make that a white, male, European conservative.
It isn't because I'm a sexist, racist, or anything else - simply a result of my anger and contempt for the President's obvious mindset (which many seem to share HERE, by the way) that a woman NEEDED to be named to fill O'Connor's seat - thus buying into the leftist bag of moronic, race/gender preference bias BS.
i agree...but if you notice rush has said this before. a few weeks ago in fact "i am tired of carrying the water for this administration". dunno if it was a slip or what--but kudos to rush.
Thank you for that info CBoldt. I can see why he felt that he had to find someone who he thought he could confirm. Again, we lost this one when the Gang of 14 led, in essence, a palace coup. I'm not mad at Dubya. He's been a poker player all along. He's been dealt a pair of twos.
I'm mad that I thought, after the House Impeachment hearings, that Lindsay Graham was a conservative. I keep forgetting that he's too close to McLame.
More bullshit a friend of a friend told me.
It is natural, in a balance of powers scheme, for each cog to assert itself over the others. In fact, that is exactly what judicial activism is. Courts acting against the legislature, or the Constitution. The Constitution provides remedies for these abuses, one of them being the public vote of representatives and executive.
McCain would go against the Constitutional/Nuclear option, but I don't think he would vote against one of the Presidents nominees - especially if he had voted for them in the past.
When did I do that?!
As I recall that awful night, Frist was ready to use it (likely having twisted a few arms of the reluctant who were not among the Gang of 14), it really looked as if this was it, when the Fox news alert came on: John McCain has come up with a compromise to avoid the nuclear option! All hail the conquering hero! I can still see his triumphant grin . . .
I wonder if GWB thinks Gonzales was an originalist in the Texas Partental Notification Case. Or was Owen? Both? If both, please explain. That case provides some substance to gauge the meaning of the label "originalist" against the label "activist." Without a fact pattern, the meaning of the labels is so subjective thatteh labels themselves become meaningless.
Um, I know that. She didn't join it but she's obviously not against it.
I thought they only got to pass four.
There you go again. Hope you didnt call me names. I am sensitive you know.
Bush, Cheney, Cornyn, etc. aren't relying on third party accounts.
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