Posted on 01/04/2007 11:15:05 AM PST by SES1066
Also the use of a single non-journalist commentator, "Alexander Charns, a Durham, N.C., lawyer" to be rather one-sided. Quick research shows this gentleman to be an active trial lawyer and author of a 1992 book "Cloak and Gavel" about use of the FBI in various Court and Legal cases. From my perusal of the Amazon info on the book, I'd put him on the liberal side of the poltical spectrum. Maybe some of our Tarheel Freepers can add to this impression.
Thus my inclusion of this as a Free Republic entry is because it (to my view) seeks to discredit Rehnquist, Nixon, Reagan and Bolton as using atypical, even unique tactics in the two confirmations of Rehnquist and uses what appears to be a biased source as confirmation.
I'm deliberately not adding criticism of the headline versus the article because that was most probably an anonymous editor choosing his own view of the article.
Yeah, well then I guess I can't wait until Bill Clinton dies so we can finally find out what the hell was going on in the 90's and why the White House doctors had to be gagged. And maybe we can finally find out how Craig Livingston got hired.
If President Bush hadn't betrayed his base, the Liberal Media would be one step closer to irrelevant.
Didn't BJ Clinton's brother say that BJ had a nose like a vacuum cleaner?
He might have been right about that, knowing how much they love conservatives.
But gosh, how come a liberal who thinks the CIA is conspiring against him isn't suspected of being off in the head.
Overall, this is the tamest stuff I've ever seen.
Those clauses were quite common years ago. When I helped my parents sell their house in the suburbs of Philadelphia in the late 70s, I (and they) were surprised to see such a clause in their deed. I wondered what the title company would do with it, particularly since the couple buying their house was Black. When I got the title report there was a simple notation to the effect that the clause (referenced only by number) was no longer legally enforceable.
He's not running for president against you. Confine yourself to slashing and burning your opponents, not someone who's dead.
Leni
The headline is a bit inflammatory, but that's what newspapers do to get someone to read their nonsense. He hallucinated for a week while he was being weaned from a narcotic. No big deal. Lots of folks have the same thing happen. Anyone who has taken heavy pain meds for more than a few weeks could have the same thing happen.
The WH is not the only entity that uses FBI files for SC nominees and witnesses. The Senate judiciary committee has been known to leak the very same files.
I've got the answer to that:
My father took Placidyl for many years; I think it was for chronic insomnia. I never noticed any negative effects.
I had a similar episode of withdrawal from pain medication when I was still in my late teens. I had only taken the stuff (I can't recall what it was) for a week or so and decided to stop on my own. After I stopped taking it, I would wake up in the middle of the night not in pain so much but in shear terror. I had horrible feeling of impending doom and it took most of the next week before I returned to normal.
That experience lead me to avoid taking any pain medications if at all possible ever since. I'd far prefer to endure some pain than those horrible feeling I had from whatever that crap they gave me was.
Yeah. He MUST have been delusional.
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The making of a new urban myth, i.e., that Rehnquist was hallucinating throughout his tenure. Watch the Dems take off with this one. Someone will say that all the decisions he took part in should be thrown out.
Did they check Hillary's 900 files ?
The restrictive covenant thing was essentially meaningless anyway, because the Supreme Court had already ruled in 1948 that government enforcement of racially restrictive covenants is unconstitutional.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer
...when it was actually the FBI.
Common mistake.
I can't tell you the SOP for nominations to the SCOTUS. I can say with 100% certainty that the FBI conducts an extensive background check on nominees to the Federal District Court (both Article III District Court judges and magistrate-judges) and to the United States Attorney's office.
No telling what was running through her dreams/nightmares that day on the bench.
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