Posted on 06/28/2007 7:58:01 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Just say no.
The Senate's Democratic majority -- joined by all Republicans who purport to be moderate -- must tell President Bush that this will be their answer to any controversial nominee to the Supreme Court or the appellate courts.
The Senate should refuse even to hold hearings on Bush's next Supreme Court choice, should a vacancy occur, unless the president reaches agreement with the Senate majority on a mutually acceptable list of nominees.
And no Bush nominee to a lower court deserves any deference now that we learn that U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh may have misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh claimed he was not involved in administration discussions about setting the rules for the treatment of enemy combatants. The Post reported that he was.
Although a spokeswoman for Kavanaugh insisted that his testimony was "accurate," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said, "I don't believe that he was truthful with us."
As for the Supreme Court, we now know that the president's two nominees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, are exactly what many of us thought they were: activist conservatives intent on leading a judicial counterrevolution. Yesterday's 5 to 4 ruling tossing out two school desegregation plans was another milestone on the court's march to the right.
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One of the few areas where Dubya has done well during his presidency.
A counterrevolution ? I wasn’t aware we had a revolution here to counter.
Commies.
Sounds like E.J. Dionne Jr is a little upset, poor little thing. Give him a pacifier and put him to bed.
Yes, that's exactly right: The original, bogus revolution starting in the late 1930's must be reversed. It was totally illegitimate, activist and Unconstitutional. And were I the Supreme Court, I'd make the reversal retroactive--and make liberals pay the full cost of their evil.
Go ahead and whine, EJ. Fred Thompson is going to appoint 3 more Roberts/Alito clones. Then we can watch happily as the judicial tyranny of the left is squelched for more than a generation. The Founding Fathers will finally be able to stop rolling over in their graves.
I wonder where Dipwad Dionne Jr. got the idea he can dictate how the government is run.
How’s it feel? Like the shafting WE’VE been taking for 40 years? DEAL!!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How outrageous that a Supreme Court Justice could think like this!
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Didn't Fred help select Roberts?
I love it when liberals are steamed. It means something’s going right.
He was asked to lobby on Roberts’ behalf.
Truth be known, I’ll bet E.J. wipes his ass on a copy of the Constitution every morning.
I believe he ushered Roberts around the hill when going through the process.
He’s right. Not one more Roberts or Alito. Make it five more.
“Go ahead and whine, EJ. Fred Thompson is going to appoint 3 more Roberts/Alito clones. Then we can watch happily as the judicial tyranny of the left is squelched for more than a generation. The Founding Fathers will finally be able to stop rolling over in their graves.”
Ah yes!!!!! I love it! We can finally get some more reliable conservatives on the Supreme Court. We’ve just gotta get past the Democrat-led Senate, though......
Yeah, he didn’t even use a penumbra.
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