A Bruising High Court Fight Likely - Two conservative favorites reportedly top Bush list

The Seattle Times ^ | 10/30/05 | Jan Crawford Greenburg

[Galtoid]

This is the fight that Schumer and Kennedy et al, do NOT want. I hope that whoever Bush taps has nerves of steel and a strong set of convictions in order to endure the abuse and terror of his questioners on the committee. This is the WAR we've wanted for decades.

[End Times Sentinel]

No unpleasant surprises this time, okay, ping?

Owl_Eagle

”You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being”

-Hillary Clinton

(Yes, she really said that

Peggy Noonan

The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

[silverleaf]

bring it on.

[ModelBreaker]

Either would make my heart go pitterpat.

[Incorrigible]

[calrighty]

Good catch! BTTT

[Aetius]

If these reports are true, then its reassuring. But I do wonder, what happened to consideration of Emilio Garza and Edith Jones?

They are only a couple of yrs older than Alito, and have actually had the courage to publicly criticize Roe. It would be sad to think it is that public criticism that has taken them off the list.

[AmericaUnited]

Luttig ... But he also wrote in a 2000 case that a Supreme Court decision upholding a woman's right to an abortion was "super-stare decisis."

What the @%@#^#&!

[Enterprise]

Well let's hope so. Let's have that "bruising" fight. I want bare knuckles, split lips and busted noses, missing teeth, ripped ears, broken ribs, and katy-bar-the-door until we get this settled! No more of these disgusting Souters, Ginsbergs, Breyers or Kennedy's. Enough is enough.

[wardaddy]

This is the WAR we've wanted for decades.

[goldstategop]

Exactly. This is the kind of battle we ought to be having. We don't have to be ashamed of our views. They are the mainstream. The Democrats are outside of it. I'd love to see Kennedy and Schumer explain to the country how reasonable restrictions on abortion endanger a woman's right to get one when its needed to save her life.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[AlaskaErik]

Too bad the President didn't look at our own FreeRepublic poll for the best choice.

[PositiveCogins]

I sure hope so. Standing up and appointing a real conservative and an originalist would be a good start.
And if he actually stands up to the senate and gets them through then he's only 3/4 of a spine away from actually being the President he should have been.

[hflynn]

Nicknamed Scalito, Alito is going to make Schumer upchuck and Teddy drive off a bridge.

[Shery]

Let's roll!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I want Henry W. Saad. Not only would he be a great member of SCOTUS but it would rub the Dims noses in it as they have been blocking him in committee for the past three years.

He was also part of the blood sacrifice demanded to allow a vote on some other judges earlier this year.

I don't approve of blood sacrifices and I hold a special contempt for those who give them.

Hey McCain, Graham, Warner,Snowe, Collins, DeWine and Chafee, UP YOURS!

[savedbygrace]

If President Bush nominates either man, we'll see whether the seven RINOs in the Gang of 14 will do the honorable thing or not. If they do, the filibuster of judicial nominations will disappear in a puff of smoke. If not, then our course will be obvious, and, ultimately, the Republican Party will be spoken of in the past tense.

It's that serious.

[El Gato]

Assuming there is any veracity to this at all, the same sorts of "sources" weren't exactly spot on last time, I would bet on Luttig. Bush is bound to be more comfortable with a Good Old Boy, from Texas, and educated @Washington & Lee and UVA law, than someone from New Jersey, educated at Princeton and Yale. OTOH, maybe not, since Bush, as his father before him, was a Yalie himself (Harvard for Grad school though).

Either one would "make my day".

[PositiveCogins]

Could Luttig be a fellow Bonesman?