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Conservatives See Court Shift as Culmination
NYTIMES ^ | 01/29/06 | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alito; bush43; cboydengray; doj; edwinmeese; federalistsociety; judicialnominees; leonardleo; scotus
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To: Spanaway Lori

Yo.

Now and always....eternal vigilance!


41 posted on 01/30/2006 2:27:20 AM PST by joyspring777
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To: Lancey Howard

I can't even believe that the libs have the huzpah to accuse GWB of "packing the courts".

This concept was most widely spoken of during the FDR years when FDR wanted to ADD justices BEYOND the 9 that held his beliefs.

The libs are totally off the deep end with intellectual dishonesty to use the phrase "packing".

But then intellectual honesty has never been a hallmark of libs...read socialist liberals...babes conceived from the "ends justifies the means" crowd.


42 posted on 01/30/2006 2:31:09 AM PST by joyspring777
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To: Dad yer funny

Christmas present!!


43 posted on 01/30/2006 2:31:57 AM PST by joyspring777
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To: Pikamax

bump


44 posted on 01/30/2006 6:49:51 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: CheyennePress
I would think that the libs are going to hang on until they croak

God, please let it be soon.

45 posted on 01/30/2006 10:54:31 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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