Reid, Leahy Urge Bush To Select Consensus Nominee

leahy.senate.gov ^ | 10/28/2005 | P. Leahy and H. Reid

[NapkinUser]

October 28, 2005

The Honorable George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

Today the Senate received your withdrawal of the nomination of Harriet Miers to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. We agree with Senator John Danforth, until recently a high-ranking official in your Administration, who has called the circumstances of Ms. Miers’s withdrawal “a power play” by “the right wing of American politics.” We regret that Ms. Miers was not even afforded the opportunity to answer her right wing critics at a Judiciary Committee hearing.

The extraordinary circumstances surrounding the Miers nomination make it even more important that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor be replaced by a mainstream nominee, not by an activist who would bring an ideological agenda to the Court. Interest groups are not entitled to an extra-constitutional veto over Supreme Court appointments. Justice O’Connor should only be replaced by someone who inspires respect across the political spectrum, as she did.

There are some potential nominees who would clearly fail this test. As before, we strongly urge you to refrain from nominating to the Supreme Court any of the handful of judicial nominees who were filibustered during the past four years, or any other similarly divisive candidate. Instead, we urge you to pick one of the many qualified mainstream women and minority candidates who can win widespread bipartisan support in the Senate and among the American people. We have privately offered you some thoughts in this regard, and remain willing to meet with you again to achieve consensus.

At this critical moment, and in light of the circumstances that led to the withdrawal of the Miers nomination, Senate Democrats will perform our constitutional Advice and Consent responsibility with heightened vigilance.

Respectfully,

Harry Reid
Democratic Leader
United States Senate

Patrick Leahy
Ranking Member
United States Senate

[NapkinUser]

"Instead, we urge you to pick one of the many qualified mainstream women and minority candidates...."

White men need not apply. Can you believe these people? In 2005 no less.

[clintonh8r]

Stick Luttig in their faces.

[TexasRedeye]

Neither white men nor "some" black women need apply, it seems. This letter is obviously a shot across President Bush's bow by the leading obstructionist. It is clearly a warning that any candidate fillibustered earlier will be fillibusterd again. "Extraordinary circumstances" have been defined at last!

BRING IT ON!

[dangus]

Bush Supporter Urges Reid, Leahy to Go Shove It Up Their Asses.
Details at 11.

[prognostigaator]

"........ we strongly urge you to refrain from nominating to the Supreme Court any of the handful of judicial nominees who were filibustered during the past four years, or any other similarly divisive candidate.

You can kiss my lovely Irish arse......

[NapkinUser]

Alito is very conservative and was confirmed 100-0. And what's better is that 19 of the current 44 senate democrats didn't vote against Alito. Alito is a win-win in my book.

[baystaterebel]

To the back of the bus.

I did not like the way Miers went down. That being said.....

Its time to declare Faaarrrrrgin' Waaaarrrrrr on dos Sums of eh Bastadges!!

[macamadamia]

Reid and Leahy can go consensus each other.

[dangus]

>> I did not like the way Miers went down. That being said..... <<

I'm sure everyone hated to have to do it...

[Gillmeister]

Janice Rogers Brown on deck, with Edith Clement on double deck.......

[NapkinUser]

It's going to be Alito. Quote me on it.

Though Janice Rogers Brown, J. Michael Luttig or Edith H. Jones would please me just as well.

[cynicom]

Heaven forbid Bush might ask conservatives who they would support.

[Commiewatcher]

Oh, they want consensus eh?

Well, the consensus is..............GFY

(With STFU a very close second)

[BibChr]

BibChr Urges Leahy, Reid to Form Consensus for Bush's Nominee

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG

[wildcatf4f3]

kick them in the teeth

[righttackle44]

Hey, I want a nominee whose presence wakes Reid up screaming in the middle of the night because he's afraid the Conservatives of the country really are going to break into his house and parade him naked through the streets of Washington D.C. before escorting him to the execution trenches.

I hope Reid doesn't sleep well for the rest of his life.

(Did you hear the fear in in voice the other day when he was speaking before the senate, apparently terrified of the rise up of Conservatives of Miss Miers?)

[ncountylee]

I sincerly hope that this week's indictment by a stealth prosecutor will underline the lie of bipartisan cooperation. Pay back time is here.

Mr.President pick a solid conservative and 'let loose the dogs of war' in the DOJ after democrat corruption. No offence should be too small for indictment.

No more high road. Beat then in the gutter where they live.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

“Instead, we urge you to pick one of the many qualified mainstream women and minority candidates....”

So, they are still trying to play the game of “Old Maid” with the next Supreme Court nominee?

[JennysCool]

After a week of the ridiculous "Plame Game" being bloviated all over the MSM, it seems obvious that it's time the President and his supporters ignore the Democrats and media out of existence, and just do what's right for the nation.

[Jim Noble]

Hey, I want a nominee whose presence wakes Reid up screaming in the middle of the night because he's afraid the Conservatives of the country really are going to break into his house and parade him naked through the streets of Washington D.C. before escorting him to the execution trenches. I hope Reid doesn't sleep well for the rest of his life.

Laz, got a new screen name?