FOX NEWS REPORTS PENDING SHOWDOWN BETWEEN WHITE HOUSE AND MARY FRANCES BERRY

Fox News | The Fox News All-Stars (Brit Hume and panel)

[Howlin]

Brit Hume reports that Mary Frances Berry, chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, is refusing to acknowledge the Bush White House's latest appointment to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

Ms. Berry sent a letter to the White House Counsel, Al Gonzales, saying that if they do intend to send the nominee to the meeting tomorrow, they best send along the U.S. Marshalls to seat him, as she will not allow it.

Fox reports that the term of one of the Democrats has expired and President Bush is exercising his right to appoint a member of his choice. The Panel on Hume's show said that this has NEVER been done before; that when someone is appointed to fill a term that hasn't been expired, when the term expires, the person leaves the committe. They also report that the woman who is being removed from the commmittee plans to show up tomorrow with a civil rights attorney and claim that she should get a full six year term, not just complete somebody else's.

Ms. Berry contends that the person leaving the committee was appointed for six years, not just to fulfill the term of a member who either died or left the commission (I can't remember which!)

CAUTION: this is typed from memory. Nothing on the news site yet.

[agrace]

He said (and this is not exact) that Zell Miller sent a letter which basically told the Dems to get off John Ashcroft's back and let him do his job, that military tribunals have been used many times before and been ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court twice, and the nitpicking of Ashcroft has got to stop. Sean expressed sincere appreciation for Zell with regard to this as well as for times he has spoken out against his own party in the past.

[Howlin]

Excellent. And thanks.

[pawdoggie]

This is more Democrat agitprop designed to re-establish Bush's "racist" image in minority circles, in advance of next year's congressional elections. If Bush sends in law enforcement, the dominant media camera crews will be lying in ambush to record the event. Bush shouldn't back down, but he should use the courts, rather than a heavy hand, to handle this matter.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I heard Sean discuss this today. I was wondering when Zell would be heard from. He has been quiet lately, probably because of the bipartisanship after 9/11. I was afraid dasshole had found a way to control him.

Zell has also been vocal about Abdulah Walker. He said we should strip him of his citizenship, try him and have the jury made up of the men & women he was fighting against. [paraphrased]

[Wil H]

..Mary Frances Berry, who chairs the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, attributes white-on-black violence to white people's persistent "belief in the inferiority of blacks."

Hmmm... Since black on white crime is ten times that of white on black , according to DOJ statistics, What does she attribute that to? - A superiority complex amongst crack heads?

[Issaquahking]

I wonder if this is what Anne Coulter imaged when she used the word "girly-boys"? (barf alert)

[Alamo-Girl]

As I recall, the article went into those subjects. Best I can tell, the flip side is ignored...

[Hagrid]

Just from what was quoted in the statute or reg, I would guess that Wilson would be out now, but that Berry is right that her term ends in 2005.

[Humidston]

. Jeez, you guys amaze me with your backwoods stupidity

Perhaps you're on the wrong website? Surely you jest. Backwoods stupidity is the subject of this thread WRT backwoods STUPID Mary Berry. Get it?

Goodbye

[kayak]

If you look at the registration date you get a hint as to who "We" is in the screen name. You're right about him/her being on the wrong web site ..... WahWah00 is definitely not a "right"-thinking person.

[norton]

Didn't he used to be a very short actor?

[jrewingjr]

"She still looks like a man"

She has "man hair".

They should have had an episode of Seinfeld that featured "man hair", but I wasn't writing for them then.

[ppaul]

Dear Mr. President:

Do our country a favor -
Fire her miserable @ss.

[Hank Rearden]

You've gotta admit, though; there's just nobody uglier than Rosa DeLauro - the Wicked Witch of the World. She'd gag a maggot; the really weird part is that she's actually married. To what, I have no idea.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

Yep, she is a horrible perosn!

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

ack! person

[kcvl]

June 23, 2001

Mary Frances Berry
Chairwoman

She's feisty, aggressive, and hated by conservatives, but Mary Frances Berry, President Clinton's appointed chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is not in danger of being ousted by President Bush -- at least not this year. Currently, the commission, an independent agency that investigates allegations of illegal discrimination, is comprised of six Democratic appointees and two Republican appointees. The new President is not likely to have the chairman of his choice ratified by the commission until after he replaces the two Democrats whose terms expire at the end of the year. In the meantime, the 63-year-old Berry is continuing to oversee controversial investigations that are likely to push Bush's buttons. After a six-month inquiry, the commission released a report lambasting the way his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, handled voting problems in Florida during the November 2000 election. The commission is embarking on a study of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions involving civil rights. At the same time, Berry is also a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. A Nashville native, Berry earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Howard University, a doctorate in history from the University of Michigan, and a law degree from the University of Michigan. Berry has held academic posts at the University of Maryland (College Park) and the University of Colorado (Boulder), and she served as assistant secretary for education in what was then the Health, Education and Welfare Department. Even if she has to step down as commission chairwoman, Berry can remain on the commission as a commissioner until 2004.