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Bush's past promises on Supreme Court nominees
Now that our president is openly talking about nominating to the Supreme Court his friend Alberto Gonzales, whom no one but no one considers to be a Scalia-like opponent of the "living Constitution," it's worth remembering what Mr. Bush has said about this subject in the past. This is from an Alan Keyes action alert:
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Gov. George W. Bush repeated a number of times that, if elected and if a Supreme Court slot opened up, he would nominate a judge that held the same judicial philosophy as Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.
On "Meet the Press" in 1999, the future President Bush said that the justices he most admired were Scalia and Thomas. Bush referred to Scalia during one of the nationally-televised debates as his favorite Supreme Court judge, and the kind he would nominate during his presidential tenure.
Still not a direct quote...
Scalia and Thomas Still Bush Heroes
by John Gizzi
Posted Jul 3, 2003
Asked by HUMAN EVENTS' John Gizzi if the President stood by his campaign-year words to name Supreme Court justices of the caliber of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer replied: "The President stands by everything he said in the campaign."
Fleischer also noted, however, that Bush named Scalia and Thomas when asked "who on the [Supreme] Court he admires the most" and listed an entire criterion for justices he would appoint. "So the answer [about appointing justices] would be 'all of the above,'" Fleischer told Gizzi.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=1140