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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“Conservative Icon Backs Sotomayor”
More lies from WAPO, this MSM rag just won’t print the truth. Ken Starr is no more a conservative icon than Jimmy Carter. Pass the barf bag please!!
Ken Starr is a conservative icon??? Someone revoke that scribe’s literary license for WUI (writing under the influence).
ROTFLOL Right since when did this happen? Never heard that one.
Ah, idiot MSM sitting at desk cherry picking words and making up fantasy.
Did you ever get the feeling that we are all extras in a gigantic Hollywood movie and, we have no speaking parts?
The last time I heard of Starr was during the Monica affair. Once that blew over I don’t think Starr has even remotely been in the news. Now suddenly he is a conservative icon?
I support the ACORN 8 but I am well aware that they’re pretty far left of myself. Doing the right thing trumps all politics.
I never had much use for Ken Starr. He took a cut and dried case against Bill Clinton and blew it. (No pun intended.)
The only lawyer I can think of more incompetent than Starr was Marcia Clark,the woman who prosecuted OJ.
Was Starr really incompetent or was he working for Bill Clinton? That is the question.
Funny—during the ‘90s, the MSM considered him the devil incarnate. Now he’s an “Icon”. My, how things change.
I would have made him a conservative icon had his investigation led to the removal of the Toon from office but since that didn’t happen at best he joins the ranks of Dole and McCain.
There was NO way the US Senate was going to convict Bill Clinton after the House impeached him. You can’t blame Starr for that.
I’m not...just the way history unfolded.
That icon got deleted a long time ago, but he still hangs around like an obsolete registry entry.
These people are daft. They’ve lost the thinking part of their brains. They are blinded by the light from 0bammywhammy. What in the world???
Sotomayor is a loony tune. She has nothing going for her except that she’s female and has hispanic blood. So the h3ll WHAT. She’s not intelligent. Her tutor got her through law school while she read “Curious George” to learn English. Her legal decisions rarely, if ever, are more than 2 paragraphs long and she fails to quote prior judicial cases to document her findings.
If no one else will say it, I will. Sotomayor isn’t intelligent enough to sit on the Supreme Court. She’s not just a ‘lightweight,’ she’s a ‘featherweight’ who could not keep up with the rest of the Supreme Court Justices . . . without a tutor.
IIRC, during the impeachment of BJ, Starr was a Democrat. He WAS just doing his job (though poorly).
Only in the sense that he is an intellectually honest lawyer. (Shouldn't that be an oxymoron?). The Clinton Machine painted him as a conservative when he had a history of being a bipartisan moderate who was more liberal than many anti-Clintonistas were willing or able to recognize.
You raise a good point. I think we’re being played like a cheap fiddle. The debate, if you could call it that, so far has had nothing to do with her actual qualifications to sit on the bench, or why she would be be the best choice out of all the possible candidates. No, it’s just setting ‘em up and knocking ‘em down and making it look like actual vetting has taken place.
And why not? It got the kenyan elected.
Who? I'd consider him a "middle of the road" man, but I wouldn't consider anything to the left of Rush to be considered a "Conservative Icon".
This article is all about pretending that the conservatives are accepting of the new racist candidate for the Supreme Court. This bimbo is nothing but an affirmative action appointee, striving to perpetuate the diversity myth.
I think Starr is like Colin Powell. He wants to get back into the DC cocktail circuit and is willing to sale his sole to the devil like Powell.
Ken Starr is not a conservative icon. But he is a GOOD MAN.
“Conservative Icon Backs Sotomayor”
As they do with blacks, the liberals feel entitled to tell us who our leaders are.
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