Posted on 01/29/2006 8:00:45 PM PST by Pikamax
Conservatives See Court Shift as Culmination By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
In February of last year, as rumors swirled about the failing health of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, a team of conservative grass-roots organizers, public relations specialists and legal strategists met to prepare a battle plan for whomever the next Supreme Court nominee might be.
The leaders were Leonard A. Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society and informal adviser to the White House; Edwin Meese III, attorney general in the Reagan administration; and C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel under the first President Bush and a veteran of confirmation battles. They had recruited 18 conservative lawyers to study the records of 18 potential nominees, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Judge Samuel A. Alito.
They trained more than three dozen lawyers across the country to respond to news media reports on the president's eventual pick. And they began weekly and eventually daily conference calls to fine-tune their strategy, for example, responding to the nomination of Judge Alito last October by recruiting Italian-American groups to protest the use of the nickname "Scalito," which would have linked Judge Alito to the conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
"We boxed them in," one lawyer present during those strategy meetings said with pride in an interview over the weekend. This lawyer and others present who described the meeting were granted anonymity because the meetings were confidential and because the team had told its allies not to gloat publicly until the confirmation vote was cast.
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Just wait until Judge Stevens retires. All the stops will be pulled out, and The NY Slimes will have to formalize its alliance with Al Qaeda publicly.
Yeah, While Roberts & Alito were fun, once Alito is confirmed, the rest of the dimlib judges won't have a reason to stay.
Bring on the retirements. :-)
Bring on the Nuclear option....
It's a good time to be a Conservative.
SCOREBOARD.....
If GWB can get one more true conservative on the bench he will achieved nearly everything for which I hoped for in voting for him. He'll go down in history as a great President who restored republican federalism's true meaning, not withstanding that he will have saved untold lives. He will have a reward awaiting him.
Well, technically, the liby judges have every reason to stay after Alito's confirmation.
The court will be split right down the middle: Alito/Roberts/Scalia/Thomas (assuming they'll stick together) : Breyer/Ginsberg/Stephens/Souter with Kennedy being the swingman.
We need one more vote. Kennedy will vote conservative occasionally, but he seems to side with the liberals a bit too often for my comfort. I would think that the libs are going to hang on until they croak or maybe until they have a Dim president or at least a Dim senate.
That works too..
It's a CONSPIRACY!
Wow, sounds like you set your expectations low :-D
No conservative should talk with the New York Times, now or ever.
I agree--half the reason I vote Republican is to appoint conservative justices to the bench, and not exclusively the SC. I've waited since the election of Reagan for a conservative Supreme Court. We conservatives have to battle the Dems tooth and nail from now on out--after O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter, we can't waste subsequent opportunites on RINO lightweights. Let's fight to have conservatives appointed. The ultraleftist Dims don't consider us when they appoint their activist abortion-mill losers--we should return the favor in kind...
I don't know for a fact that Roberts is a conservative. His relatively easy vote in the Senate makes me wonder. And Kennedy is no "swing" vote. As far as I'm concerned, on the critical issues we conservatives hold dear, he's a complete disappointment. LOL, let's not waste any more appointment opportunities. It's not impossible for the Dims to be voted back into control of the Senate, esp with Jorge Bush stepping in dog crap every chance he could last year, (Harriet Myers? Good grief!). Let's go for the gold ring, soldiers. As they say when on jury duty, "we aren't here to make friends."
I read the title of this thread and knew, just KNEW, it was an NYT piece.
In order to restore true federalism, I'm afraid that we need to repeal the 17th amendment and give the states back their voice in the government.
He won't retire. They'll have to carry him out.
Do you think that the Pres. will get anymore appointments to the Court in the next 3 years? And if so can the Republicans hold on to the Senate for in November?
It's a CONSPIRACY!
Hahaha. All your base are belong to us!
It's hardly fair that Republicans think on how we might best confirm our nominees, when the rats don't think.
When Dubya nominates Janice Brown to the SCOTUS perhaps we should try to appeal to the rats "feelings" and remind of Senator Bryd and Kennedy of the racism and sexism that still permeates American society and even our elected government.
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