Posted on 10/02/2009 11:21:07 AM PDT by Steelfish
Obama Begins To Overhaul Key US Appeals Court
The Associated Press
Oct. 2, 2009 RICHMOND, Va. -- President Barack Obama is moving to reshape the Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, known as the nation's most conservative federal appeals court.
The court supported anti-terrorism initiatives of the Bush administration and has issued many conservative rulings on abortion, death penalty and criminal rights cases.
Five of the nation's 20 open circuit judgeships belong to the court that hears cases from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Maryland.
Obama has nominated U.S. District Judge Andre Davis of Maryland and Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Keenan. If they win Senate confirmation, Democratic appointees will outnumber Republicans 7-5 on the court.
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here it comes.
so much for the independent judiciary.
It takes communist “judges” to force the United States into communism. Our “courts” are nothing but a joke. ALL OF THEM!
To “Fix” the courts?
Yes he does, Chicago-style.
THIS is what happens when you play nice with the scumbags that run the Democrat Party. Maybe, finally, you will learn that when you hold power in DC, USE it don't share it. They never do.
That’s his last barrier to implement the Saul Alinsky agenda. This is what we get when the MSM acts treasonously, betrays Freedom of the Press, and tanks in for 0. The Republic in shambles!
This makes me sick to my stomach.
One more leg on the stool being sawed off.
Please Barack, don’t touch anything for awhile...Go to your room and play and let the adults talk grown up talk.
This is not about Obama. It is about the 'cause'. Obama is just a player, not a leader.
This is probably the most important story of the day....
Just like the DOJ ‘fixed’ things in regard to investing ACORN or the voter-intimidation by the New Black Panthers.
Elections have consequesces.
Consequence sit in the White House.
The price of poker just went up. But again, this should not surprise anyone. Bit by bit he marches toward completing his agenda. While we say, “Wait until 2010 or 2014.” Time 2910 gets here 2014 won’t matter because by then he will have completed his agenda.
Jesus help us!
Still has to go through confirmation process correct?
Liberals are always trying to change the rules of the game if they think they are not winning. They do this by moving from the municipal to the county to the state level and ultimately to the federal level and, if necessary, to the international level to secure the laws that control your behavior to their satisfaction. Similarly, they will move the debate from the ballot box to the court system and, if they cannot prevail in these two places, they will try on the treaty making power.
Obama is only following a hallowed liberal tradition of changing the rules of the game in mid-play to give his side an edge. Of course it betrays the extent to which he and his liberal henchmen despise the Constitution. This from a man who was president of the Law Review at Harvard and was himself a "lecturer" of constitutional law.
There is a moral flaw in people who cheat at cards or who take the Mulligan. It is an arrogance that says that the rules do not apply to me. It says the Constitution is a hindrance and a nuisance which must be finessed. The more elegant the sophistry employed in undermining the Constitution, the more the liberal who manufactures it is admired by his peers. I don't know why, but it reminds me of the courtiers of Louis XIV, men who painted their faces and rouged their lips.
The modern Democrat party is morally debauched and intellectually corrupt.
Sooooo......Senator McCain.....how’s that Gang of 14 thing working out for ya?
When Conservatives are able to take power again, we must be prepared to take DRASTIC action to rein in the judiciary.
Things like limiting the scope of the Federal Courts’ jurisdiction. Excluding them from terrorism and national security cases would be a good place to start. Like massive restructuring/expansion/reduction of the # of justices on courts. Like mandatory retirement, cutting their pay, whatever it takes. We must be prepared also to stoically endure the press onslaught that will surely ensue.
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