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Bernardine Dohrn's Nomination For The First Circuit Court of Appeals
Townhall.com ^ | April 22, 2014 | Hank Adler

Posted on 04/22/2014 6:51:01 AM PDT by Kaslin

What are the chances that Bernardine Dohrn, the wife of Bill Ayres, and a principal signatory on the Weather Underground's "Declaration of a State of War" in May 1970 could be appointed as a judge in a Federal Court?
Dohrn graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and subsequently graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. Until August 2013, she was a clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. Bernardine Dohrn's resume is almost as appealing as the President's resume when he was elected to the presidency.

Bernardine's husband was a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and close friend of the President of the United States. Clearly a dynamic duo.

OK, Dohrn's chances of being appointed to the Federal Bench are probably not very good because of that Weather Underground thing. But who would have ever thought she would have been teaching at Northwestern's prestigious law school?

Is this a real concern? Specifically, no. In political speak: ABSOLUTELY!

Assuming that the Republicans don't make some fundamental error in terms of candidates or electioneering, they will elect a Republican majority to the United States Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on November 4, 2014. (Granted not making a fundamental error is a huge assumption.) That will put a Lame Duck Congress in place for the final two months of 2014. That Lame Duck Congress will include a six pack or more of retiring by choice and not re-elected Democratic senators. Retiring senators and those senators not re-elected will be answerable to no one.

There are just under ninety vacancies on the Federal Courts. There are a zillion unfilled other Federal appointments that require Senate approval. The U.S. Senate under Majority Leader Harry Reid with his Democratic majority determined in 2013 that it only takes a majority of the U.S. Senate to make appointments to the bench. (Forget one hundred plus years of precedent.) There is no reason to believe that at any moment, the Democratic majority could not determine that no Federal appointment, Supreme Court to the most minor Federal appointment could not be made by a majority vote in the U.S. Senate.

Replacing the Ides of March, the period between Tuesday, November 4, 2104 and January 3, 2015, the first day of the 114th Congress could be the scariest month in U.S. politics since the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter. With political careers essentially over unless appointed to the Federal bench or as ambassadors to China by President Obama, what would cause these Democratic senators not to support virtually any nominees by the President. Perhaps not Bernardine Dohrn, but perhaps nominees that Ms. Dohrn could fully support.

Is there any way to force Democratic senator to the sidelines if they are not re-elected? Maybe.

An aggressive senatorial candidate might find the nerve to ask for a contractual commitment from the Democratic Senator running for re-election. A real contract. How about this:

I, Senator ______________ understand that there is a concern that if I should not be re-elected, after the election, I might vote to approve nominees of the President of the United States that the newly elected Senator, voted in by the people of our State would not approve. I believe in the voice of the voters of our State. As a result, for the receipt of the sum of one dollar ($1.00), I agree that if i am not re-elected, I will not vote in favor of or against any nominee for any position in my role as a Member of the United States Senate after the election date. If I violate this contract, I promise to pay to the University of ____________________ on or before June 1, 2015, a sum equal to forty percent of my net worth, an amount confirmed by a national accounting firm.

A Democratic senator could use this pledge as a positive in his/her election campaign. The key is that the voters would be protected from the possibility that this President could turn the courts and various agencies far, far left after his realization that no far left nominees will be approved during the remainder of his presidency. If used in 2014, these contracts could become a staple of future elections.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: bernadinedorn; bernardinedohrn; billayers; dohrn; terrorism
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1 posted on 04/22/2014 6:51:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Bernadine Dorn is a bloody murderer!!!

But then again, so is Dilma Rouseff, president of Brazil.


2 posted on 04/22/2014 6:53:08 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Kaslin

It would be an absolute act of war on the American people in my opinion. To me, it would be the final insult.


3 posted on 04/22/2014 6:53:46 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Kaslin

When I saw the head line at first I thought it must be the Onion or some other satire site. Sadly, I was incorrect.

I want my country back


4 posted on 04/22/2014 6:54:30 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Kaslin

Could be worse...........she could be First Lady...................


5 posted on 04/22/2014 6:56:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Kaslin

In the words of John McEnroe “You have got to be kidding me!”


6 posted on 04/22/2014 6:58:43 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Kaslin
California wants to ban judges with past association with the boy scouts, and at the same time we have this!

7 posted on 04/22/2014 6:58:47 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Kaslin

Under current Senate rules, if she is nominated, she gets the job. Nothing the GOPe can do to stop it.


8 posted on 04/22/2014 6:58:54 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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To: Kaslin

One of Dingy Harry Greed’s domestic terrorists on our so called, “courts”. Perfect!


9 posted on 04/22/2014 7:02:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Red Badger

If 0bama goes for plural marriage; the second first lady would most likely be Bill Ayers.


10 posted on 04/22/2014 7:02:46 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Kaslin

Absolutely NOT


11 posted on 04/22/2014 7:05:22 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: BitWielder1
California wants to ban judges with past association with the boy scouts, and at the same time we have this!

reposting this

12 posted on 04/22/2014 7:09:01 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Kaslin
Hell, you don't even have to go back to 1970.

It was just a couple of years ago that she was involved with something called The Free Gaza Flotilla.

The Flotilla provoked a confrontation with an Israeli navy ship in which an Israeli sailor was beaten to death and thrown overboard.

Free Gaza, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Code Pink Blockade-busting voyage against Israel planned by Islamists, leftists

13 posted on 04/22/2014 7:12:40 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Westbrook

I would think she would have a lot of Repubican backing so as to extend the “big tent”.


14 posted on 04/22/2014 7:14:06 AM PDT by Theodore R. (It was inevitable: Texans will always be for Cornball and George P.!)
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To: Kaslin

I think the country would be better served with a scratchy rope.


15 posted on 04/22/2014 7:17:49 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

BTTT


16 posted on 04/22/2014 7:21:13 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
I was at the Chicago firm Sidley & Austin (where Michelle met Barack) in the Eighties. When Bernardine Dohrn resurfaced and turned out to be Ayers' wife, the firm went nuts trying to recruit Dohrn as an attorney. You see, Ayers' father had recently been CEO of Commonwealth Edison, a very juicy client prospect.

Sidley ignored this b**ch's terrorist background and tried to get her admitted to the Illinois Bar. No go: she couldn't pass the character and fitness requirements. Sidley then moved her to the New York office and tried to get her admitted to the New York bar. Same result. So, she is not a member of the bar, which alone reduces her prospects of becoming a judge.

Also, while courting The Dohrn, Sidley was getting rid of many fine lawyers to avoid making them partners. What a sordid bunch.

17 posted on 04/22/2014 7:22:06 AM PDT by jumpingcholla34
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To: Red Badger

the current one is bad enough


18 posted on 04/22/2014 7:22:07 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Yeah, what ever happened to that cop killing escapade in the SF area?


19 posted on 04/22/2014 7:28:20 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: BitWielder1

this


20 posted on 04/22/2014 7:30:23 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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