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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
In a libs mind (what there is of it), ‘activism is following the Constitution. How dare those judges do that!
You say that like that is a bad thing.
One thing I really like about the ‘1/2 Hour News Hour’ is each segment on the ACLU.
A blow to the race industry.
I can live with “Not One More Roberts or Alito.” As long as we get a few more like Justice Thomas, or maybe Scalia. But especially Thomas!
Mark
I would pay good money to see Bush appoint Ann Coulter to the SCOTUS, if for no other reason, to watch liberals' heads explode! Plus, we'd have the most amusing judicial decisions to read in history!
Mark
Bush could just leave the SCOTUS vacancy open, thus creating a 5-3 majority. Especially viable if a TRUE conservative is likely to be elected in ‘08.
But he only uses one sheet.
Hey EJDJ, whatever happened to examining QUALIFICATIONS and not ideology? Why don't you just get it overwith and play the race card now?
They are a pack of liars and lawless thieves who have no remorse, no shame and no credibility.
This is another example of how liberals lied (and lie) about everything and depend upon the amnesia and political fatigue of the American people.
The warped mind E.J. Dionne once again reveals a disgusting lack of character.
That looks just like EJ Dionne.
LOL Maybe he cuts that one page into quarters.
E.J. needs a box of Depends stat!
Ginsberg is controversial because she worked for the ACLU, lets get rid of that cruddy old hag!
Mr. Dionne might be interested to read this passage from Federalist No. 66:
It will be the office of the President to NOMINATE, and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to APPOINT. There will, of course, be no exertion of CHOICE on the part of the Senate. They may defeat one choice of the Executive, and oblige him to make another; but they cannot themselves CHOOSE, they can only ratify or reject the choice of the President. They might even entertain a preference to some other person, at the very moment they were assenting to the one proposed, because there might be no positive ground of opposition to him; and they could not be sure, if they withheld their assent, that the subsequent nomination would fall upon their own favorite, or upon any other person in their estimation more meritorious than the one rejected. Thus it could hardly happen, that the majority of the Senate would feel any other complacency towards the object of an appointment than such as the appearances of merit might inspire, and the proofs of the want of it destroy.
EJ Dionne is one of those libs who honestly believes that nothing can ever occur without a liberal stamp of approval.
Seeing him on TV, I have to admit, is really odd--it's funny when someone both lisps AND whines at the same time.
So liberals don't like revolutions (counter or otherwise)? You learn something new ever' day...
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