[Russ]

It seems to me that Bush could have found out if Souder was pro-life or not by simply asking him. Any member of the Republican side of the Judiciary Committee could have done the same in the confirmation hearing. Why didn’t they?

[PetroniusMaximus]

“and I knew how thrilled he must be. We started running through the crowd toward each other, and when we met, we embraced, laughing and crying.”

Words can not express the contempt I feel for these two.

May God pay them back richly on judgment day.

[pgkdan]

“At first, I didn’t see Joe; then I spotted him waving at me from far down the platform,” Rudman later recorded in his memoirs, Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate. “Joe had agonized over his vote for David, and I knew how thrilled he must be. We started running through the crowd toward each other, and when we met, we embraced, laughing and crying.”

An ecstatic Biden wept tears of joy, telling Rudman over and over: “You were right about him [Souter]! ... You were right!”

The two men were so jubilant, so giddy—practically dancing—that Rudman said onlookers thought they were crazy: “[B]ut we just kept laughing and yelling and hugging each other because sometimes, there are happy endings.”

This is the creepiest thing I've ever read! How evil and heartless must you be to celebrate like this the murder of children??? These two disgust me. Especially Rudman...I hope there's a reserved seat for him in hell.

[Will88]

GHWB was just being a Bush in appointing Souter. The family had always been pro-abortion. Prescott Bush was an early member of Planned Parenthood, GHWB was pro-choice when he ran in the primary of 1980. Barbara is pro-abortion. - GHWB and Rudman were two New England, country club Republicans.

IMO, GHWB played a cynical and deceitful game of politics; nominating the known (to insiders) but stealth quantity in Souter for his first SCOTUS nominee, then going with the openly and honestly conservative Clarence Thomas for his second nominee, just before his 1992 reelection bid which he lost to Clinton.

I think pro-life was mostly a campaign position for the Bushes. "Stay out 'da Bushes."

[Reagan Man]

Abortion is the most divisive issue since slavery. The Culture of Death has a stranglehold on WashDC and pro-abortionists like Rudman and Biden are despicable creatures. Its gonna take an unwavering, traditional conservative candidate with the combined intestinal fortitude of Lincoln and Reagan to convince the people, its time to get rid of the abomination called Roe v Wade. Returning America to the Founders/Framers original Constitutional intent.

[nikos1121]

Republicans, yes Republicans have nominated the lberl SC justices. Ford nominated Stevens. Bush Souter, Reagan O’Conner. WE alowed Ginsburg in there without a whimper...

We have only ourselves to blame....

I predict that the nominee will be a woman, and one who is so far left it will make your head snap.

[Deb]

I remember that Souter was such a mystery, the Democrats started leaking hints that he was gay. He never married. He lived with his mother. All he cared about were books.

[x]

Byron White was a somewhat conservative justice and a dissenter on Roe v. Wade, but he waited until Clinton became President to step down.

White was a Democrat and had been appointed by Kennedy, and he thought a Democratic President deserved to appoint his successor.

That may have been the wrong choice, but White had an integrity that so few justices have shown lately.

I'd have thought better of Souter if he'd practiced the same principle and given a Republican a chance to pick his successor.