Posted on 05/21/2008 12:15:27 PM PDT by JZelle
Prominent conservatives and activists are indicating they will put aside their differences with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and rally their supporters to his side because of one issue: federal judgeships.
In big gatherings and small, in e-mails and one-on-one conversations, conservative opinion leaders fear a Democratic president, especially Sen. Barack Obama, will use the presidential power to appoint federal judges who will remove references to God and religious symbols from public places.
They predict the incoming president likely will fill more vacancies on the federal bench over the next four years than at any time in recent memory, giving a Democratic administration the power to shape the courts to reflect a liberal worldview.
The American Civil Liberties Union "has been on a national rampage to remove God from every public place: the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, plaques in courthouses, the Boys Scouts when they meet on public property," said Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle Forum, a pro-family group that held a private meeting for conservatives yesterday in a Washington hotel.
"These subjects should get out on the table so people understand what's going on in the courts," she said.
Peter J. Ferrara, general counsel to the conservative legal rights group American Civil Rights Union, said, "McCain said he'd appoint people like [Supreme Court Chief Justice John] Roberts and [Justice Samuel] Alito. Obama is saying he'd name people like [Justices Ruth Bader] Ginsberg and [David] Souter."
Conservatives consider the latter pair to be the two most consistently liberal Supreme Court justices.
"Obama is swimming in a sea of left-wing extremism with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright [Mr. Obama's former pastor] and [violent radical activist and Obama acquaintance] Bill Ayers and the rest of them," said Mr. Ferrara, a former Reagan White House aide.
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I meant that sentence sarcastically.
US Constitution, Article 2 Section 2 (Scope of Presidential Power). The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
I know, thus the LOL.
See post #81
Now you have stated it properly.
Thank you. Can we now be friends! LOL!
I’d still rather have another OConner than another Ginsberg!
Got a problem with that?
If McCain chooses Huckabee as VP, I promise you that not only will I vote for Barr, I will spend all my time and spare money to get him votes. Any man who is a priest of the baptist cult is not qualified to be vice-president of the United States.
He does suck. I am in the energy industry and you cannot even imagine how my skin crawls when he talks about global warming. But on the issue of Commander in Chief our troops do not deserve Obama.
YOU GOT AN ISSUE WITH THAT! lol!
Once socialized medicine gets passed, we'll be stuck with it forever. No President, no matter how conservative, will ever be able to strip it from the budget.
Like it or not, that is reality.
I guess we’ve come down to the situation this country is really ruled by 9 unelected Supreme Court Justices - just as some of the Founding Fathers feared...
“Poll: Obama Leads McCain in November matchup”
Perhaps if your candidate wasn’t such a backstabbing POS, this poll would be different.
“Any man who is a priest of the baptist cult is not qualified to be vice-president of the United States.”
To which cult do you belong?
Sorry chump but I voted for Hunter in the Texas primary.
“Sorry chump but I voted for Hunter in the Texas primary.”
And now you attack anyone that refuses to vote for your partys’ liberal.
It's called debating. Now buzz off.
He has, but he's now in a different position. He's no longer just voting on them, he is going to have to appoint the judges to be voted on by Democrates.
He has a long, and nearly unbroken, history of going across the aisle to met with liberal Dems to side against conservatives. We can already see that in his campaign.
It doesn't take any stretch to know that he will develop a 'pre-approved' list of judges. That's because he will have to 'work' with a Dem controlled Senate.
Can you see him fight for a Judge Thomas the way GHWB did?
I can't even see him consider Judge Thomas, let alone have him on the short list, and no way will he nominate a Judge Thomas.
When did you stop beating your wife?
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