Posted on 06/03/2011 5:46:58 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
The White House announced Wednesday evening that President Barack Obama is nominating Alaska Supreme Court Justice Morgan Christen to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
"I am proud to nominate this outstanding candidate to serve on the United States Court of Appeals," Obama said in a statement. "I am confident Justice Morgan Christen will serve the American people with integrity and distinction."
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IIRC, the judicial selection process in Alaska requires the governor to choose from two candidates provided by a selection board. This particular appointment was discussed in great detail in 2008, and the general consensus was that Palin chose the better of the two candidates preented to her — neither was particularly good on life issues, but at least Christen wasn’t anti-business.
Remember Souter? I was hoping to forget but you just ruint that hope. Thanks for nothing///
A rare show of bipartisanship, but we should always look to see what’s in Obama’s other hand. This plucks that judge out of Alaska’s Supremes. Could there be a reason Obama would want that? And if from a liberal point of view Obama had to play politics by putting a relatively conservative judge somewhere, wouldn’t he try to dilute that judge’s impact by putting him on the most liberal court he could find?
Congratulations! It's a girl!
Barky nominates little else, and all child-killers, like this one. Murky likes her, of course.
Sarah Palin had NO pro-life choice in appointing this woman to the bench under Alaska law. She was given two choices by a required advisory committee, one a liberal democrat and the other a flaming socialist. She picked the lesser of the two evils--the liberal democrat, who now Obama is nominating for the 9th Circuit.
Excellent point! What else is in play? Barry’s not that sophisticated but some of his flying monkeys are.
>>> IIRC, the judicial selection process in Alaska requires the governor to choose from two candidates provided by a selection board.
Thanks for pointing that out... this had me real confused.
However, Obama did NOT have to select someone from Alaska.
Is it possible that Obama actually used his own bad karma to do damage to a political opponent???
If he did, would that be a good indicator of just how effective she is and how much they are afraid of her?
Governor Palin didn't have a great choice, but I think in the long-run pro-life trumps pro-business. Free markets and a free people will not survive a society that does not respect life. To me, Governor Palin's pro-life behavior in her own conduct is the most appealing thing she has going for her and I wish her choice here had matched her personal standards.
What part of "she had NO choice under Alaska law" do you not understand?
I think she could have done better with following Mr. Minnery’s choice as the lesser of two evils.
Exactly so. What I got from the article was that Palin had to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Oh well, it’s the 9th circus so even if Cristen was a conservative it wouldn’t matter.
I accept her reasoning. I know her pro-life personal behavior is beyond question. I just don’t happen to agree on this particular judgement call of hers.
Do you have a shred of evidence that her other option was any better on abortion?
Neither one of the choices was pro-life. She took the lesser of two evils.
Both judge candidates were pro abortion- just the one she didn’t choose was an extreme environmentalist type person.....so the other was lesser of the two evils to her agenda. There is a few FReepers around here who are Alan Keyes supporters who lie and use this issue to act like she isn’t pro-life enough, they are deceitful and liars
Palin chose the least pro choice of the two, we thoroughly hashed all this out at the time.
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