Posted on 06/20/2009 5:11:58 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Kenneth W. Starr, investigator of President Bill Clinton and longtime pillar of the conservative legal establishment, has endorsed President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court.
During a question-and-answer session after a speech Thursday in Los Angeles, Starr said he "supported the nomination" of Sonia Sotomayor, according to a statement issued by his office at Pepperdine University Law School, where he is dean.
Starr told the gathering at Loyola Law School that he "thinks very well" of Sotomayor, whose nomination has triggered strong opposition from conservative groups. The statement added that Starr still wants "a variety of issues" explored at Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings.
Starr is a former Republican-appointed federal appeals court judge and U.S. solicitor general. His affinity for Sotomayor may surprise his former colleagues on the political right, including former attorney general Edwin Meese III, who is a key organizer of the opposition to Sotomayor. Meese and Starr served together in the Reagan administration, where Starr was a top Justice Department official.
Also yesterday, Sotomayor informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that she had resigned from Belizean Grove, an organization of professional women. GOP senators had questioned her membership, saying the organization discriminates on the basis of sex.
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What a media farce.....name someone a “conservative icon” and then report it to diffuse conservative dissent.
LOL! Is Starr even conservative?
I didn’t know he was consservative?
Ken Star may have done the right thing but that doesn’t make him a conservative icon.
Quelle dommage! The thing is done. Get used to it.
Conservative Icon ????
Lies-a-plenty
I thought it was a requirement for “conservatives” to have a portrait of Starr on their walls. </s/>
The MSM can not wither away soon enough.
Maybe he’s thinking what I’m thinking...we elect Obama, we WILL get flamers on the court. Considering Soto’s health, her term may be relatively short, so that’s the best we can hope for.
Starr was also involved in the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor, one of Reagan’s big errors. Apparently, he grossly misled Reagan about O’Connor. He always liked for the media to say something nice about him, and this may be the way he can get attention for a day or two. His 1998 actions showed he was no “icon” but one who did not do his legal homework.
It was even cleverer during the impeachment; attacking him from the left to make it seem like he was a real threat to Clinton.
RINO Starr would have been a conservative ICON had he actually convicted Bill and Hill and put them behind bars.
Ken Starr? A conservative icon? How did I miss that?
Ken Starr was just trying to do his job. He was not the anti-Clinton zealot he was made out to be by the media.
Whoa, nelly. Ain't that a right-winger!! Cuz we all know that it is hip to look the other way when a Democrat breaks the law. And if you ain't hip, then we'll can your butt. And when we do, we'll ruin your reputation so you never work again.
Just ask Gerald Walpin.
I heard one theory for this on the radio.
Starr still argues cases and the appellate and Supreme Court level. Good chance he will argue a case in front of Soto. He just wants to be on her good side.
Hell, RINGO Starr would have been a conservative ICON had he actually convicted Bill and Hill and put them behind bars.
Even Starr Jones!
A member of the judicial oligarchy, backing a member of the judicial oligarchy, nominated by a member of the judicial oligarchy, to be confirmed without serious questioning by members of the judicial oligarchy. What’s the problem?
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