[Elkiejg]

Glad to see the WashTimes is keeping this story in the news. My comment to the scholars -- "troubled my A**" -- you should be screaming at the blatent attempt of the RATS to hijack the process.

[anniegetyourgun]

Can you imagine the response if this were the R's using such underhanded tactics?

[1rudeboy]

bttt

[newzjunkey]

Kennedy spokesman David Smith declined to comment on the memo, saying, "I don't feel the need to comment on a stolen memo that I don't even know the senator saw."

"I don't want to comment on stolen materials," (University of Chicago's) Mr. Sunstein said.

Reading from the same talking points, fellas? This is a good piece which *OUGHT* to spark massive outrage, alas it'll be swept aside.

[Diogenesis]

It is OK if any Democrat lies, cheats, steals, or murderers or commits treason.
A Democrat is --by definition- above all American law.
Why, they can even steal (and use) FBI files for years.

[OXENinFLA]

As the dust settles in the Judiciary Committee fuss over Republican snooping into Democrats' memos, several legal scholars said yesterday they were shocked by a memo showing staffers in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's office plotting to manipulate one of the most significant court cases in recent years.

"My jaw dropped when I heard that one," said Ronald D. Rotunda, a law professor at George Mason University. "It's very troubling."

REALLY, And it's taken him this long to figure that out!

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[guitfiddlist]

I'm waiting for the legal nitpickers of the 'Rat party to sue the US government for FDR intercepting and deciphering Japanese diplomatic instructions on US soil during peacetime.

Scratch a 'Rat and you will discover all the slime they wantonly accuse others of harboring.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Hand it to the Dems (and their spokespeople): they know they shouldn't comment on this because if they remain silent, the story goes away BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE PARTISAN MEDIA IN THEIR POCKET AND THEY WILL SPIKE IT EVERY TIME IT COMES UP.

Congrats to the Washington Times for pursuing this and keeping it in the public domain.

[Bahbah]

"I don't want to comment on stolen materials," Mr. Sunstein said. "Even if there is something bad in there, it would be improper of me -- and possibly of you -- to comment on them."

This is the weakest, most duplicitous, lying so and so imaginable. Improper to comment on the disgusting machinations of Kennedy and his ilk. Think he wants us to shut up and maybe this will just go away?

[kristinn]

More great work by Charles Hurt. You'll never see this in The Washington Post or New York Times.

[Just mythoughts]

This is what happens when "justice" gets perverted by perverts.

[Morgan's Raider]

The Kennedy aide went on to say she was "a little concerned about the propriety" of stalling a nominee based on the outcome of a particular case, but endorsed the strategy anyway.

Didn't Jimmy Hoffa go to prison for essentially the same thing? Appears to ne this is very akin to jury tampering. And unlike Teddy Kennedy, I'll bet Hoffa probably had a couple of socially redeeming qualities.

[an amused spectator]

"I don't want to comment on stolen materials," Mr. Sunstein said. "Even if there is something bad in there, it would be improper of me -- and possibly of you -- to comment on them."

Cas Sunstein needs to start reading his own book on the dangers of exclusively hanging around websites like Democratic Underground. ;-)

[tang-soo]

As an aside, if I remember correctly, it was Turly's admonishing article in a legal journal that finally gave the Paul Jones case legs.

[NYCVirago]

The only legal scholars contacted by The Washington Times who did not condemn the Kennedy memo were University of Chicago's Cass R. Sunstein and Harvard University's Lawrence H. Tribe, two law professors who are widely credited with developing the current Democratic strategies to block Republican nominees.

Shocker!

[familyofman]

"Wow," Georgetown University law professor Jonathan Turley said when he read the memo. "It raises very serious questions about propriety. On its face, there is an element of complicity and dishonesty."

Ok - a little help here decoding the legalese.
Definitions; propriety complicity dishonesty

I thought the issue was illegality. Do any of the parsed words used equal say, criminal or unlawful. Attorneys and profrssors always use words that appear precise but many times are open to slanting. Any legal folks around care to clear this up for me?

[The SISU kid]

Move along.....nothing to see here folks...

Same old, same old. Let the ends justify the means....

[DoctorMichael]

"....Glad to see the WashTimes is keeping this story in the news....."

Too bad there is no point-man assigned to this on the Republican side. They're all asleep over there anyways.

[SuziQ]

"Wow," Georgetown University law professor Jonathan Turley said when he read the memo. "It raises very serious questions about propriety. On its face, there is an element of complicity and dishonesty."

No sh*t, Sherlock!

[Libloather]

...a memo showing staffers in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's office plotting to manipulate one of the most significant court cases in recent years.

Should be hitting the headlines any year now...

[Liz]

University of Chicago Transgender Activists Demand 'Gender Neutral' Bathrooms

Monday, December 01, 2003


Continuing their campaign to force a mental disorder on the general populace, transgender activists at the University of Chicago are demanding ''gender neutral'' bathrooms. Apparently assuming that someone actually has a gender is now considered offensive, and making sure that transgenders are ''comfortable'' is of the utmost importance to society. In addition, feminists have decided that separate bathrooms for men and women constitute oppression.

Lucio Guerrero, writing for The Chicago Sun-Times, provides the mind-boggling details.

Transgender, gay and feminist groups at the University of Chicago are asking officials to consider creating more gender-neutral bathrooms, saying some people aren't comfortable selecting a gender-specific facility.

''Persons who are not easily legible as male or female often experience various forms of intimidation in these places. If a woman in a women's-only restroom is assumed to be a man, there may be real threats to her comfort and even safety,'' warns the Coalition for a Queer Safe Campus, a student group comprised of various organizations supporting equality on campus. ''Students have faced gay-baiting comments in our university's sex-segregated bathrooms.''

The issue is especially of concern to transgenders who attend the university. The coalition said they know of students who don't use the bathrooms at school to avoid any controversy.

Members of the Feminist Majority, Queers & Associates and the Center for Gender Studies held a panel at the university last week to discuss the issue. Moon Duchin, a graduate student at U. of C. and an adviser to the Queer Safe Campus bathroom initiative, said there is a misperception on campus from some students about the gender-neutral bathrooms.

She said after the panel convened and word spread about the topic, some students posted negative comments on Web sites about the movement.

''This is a hot-button issue with some people who think that we are trying to do away with conventional bathrooms,'' Duchin said. ''But that's not the case. We are trying to create more choices for people.''

In the short term, the group wants to change existing bathrooms on one floor of the Joseph Regenstein Library and one floor of Cobb Hall, a popular student hangout. In the future, the group would like the university to consider gender-neutral bathrooms to be included in the plans for new buildings.

''Access to public, single-occupancy bathrooms would be ideal for undercutting this source of intimidation, but converting existing multi-stall bathrooms to gender neutrality is an excellent, and easy, intermediate step,'' the group writes on its Web site.

''They have done a great job of raising community awareness of the issue,'' said Bill Michel, associate dean of the college. ''We are in the process of evaluating these two buildings to see if would be possible to create more bathrooms.''

Michel said the university already has nine gender-neutral bathrooms but none in the two most popular buildings.

But it is more than just a gay and transgender issue, for some feminists the issue of gender specific bathrooms has been a problem for years.

''Some feminists might say that any sex segregation is problematic,'' said Mary Anne Case, a professor of law at the University of Chicago who has studied the early roots of feminism and the inequality in sex segregated bathrooms.

Case said that along with creating more bathroom space for women -- a typical problem in public facilities -- the gender-neutral bathroom would also give men and women less reasons to separate in social functions.


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