[strategofr]

Someone thought this was relevatn enough to post as an article, so here goes.

[strategofr]

ping

[Casekirchen]

Oh, Specter, that great authority on Scottish impeachment law.


Hey Arlen, STFU and support the man who prostituted himself to help your win in the Republican primary

[Bahbah]

That is very interesting. Thank you.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this. I hadn't read it before, and it demonstrates with clarity the stupidity of Senator Specter's "understanding" of the Constitution. In his book, Specter says he thinks Brown v. Board of Education was decided that way because the Constitution had evolved. He is dead wrong.

Anyone who reads that case competently knows that it turned on the facts, not on the law. The Court found that separation of blacks into separate schools was not "separate but equal," which was the factual finding ofPlessy v. Ferguson because of evidence presented at trial that the separation placed a "stigma of inferiority" on the black children, who were relegated to their own schools.

So, Brown was based on the same constitutional requirement of "equal protection under the law" in the Constitution as was Plessy. The difference, and the necessity for reversal, came from the new facts as applied to the SAME law / Constitution.

I have long known that Specter is a fool on the subject of constitutional law. This is just one more proof of that.

Congressman Billybob

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[skinkinthegrass]

THXs...Is Sen. Spectum, setting U.S.A.J. Alito and Pres. GWB up, just to show "his Independence"? I'm just asking; I never trusted the (esp. RINO) Senator, as far as you can throw ANY Federal Elected Official. :P

[Cboldt]

The White House, as you know, is interested in having the matter concluded by the end of the year. I do not know that that is realistic. I do not know that that is unrealistic.

What I do know is that we're going to do it right, and we're not necessarily going to do it fast.

If it can be done within the time frame by the end of the year and done properly with an opportunity to review Judge Alito's record and have the kind of hearings that are necessary for this kind of a very, very key position -- you hear it said often, but frankly not too often, that short of a declaration of war, the most important function of the United States Senate is the confirmation of U.S. Supreme court justice for lifetime terms.

They make the decision on the cutting edges of all of the big questions in our society.

As things have evolved, the Congress punts to the court, the executive branch punts to the court. And they have lifetime tenure and independence, and they have come somehow in our society to take on those cutting edge questions. So it is very, very important.

Transcript: Sen. Specter Discusses Alito Nomination | Oct 31, 2005