Berry Won't Leave Civil Rights Panel When Term Expires

Human Events ^ | Nov 16, 2004 | Robert B. Bluey

[paudio]

"I'm not doing anything except serving out my term," Berry said when asked about the dispute. "There's no question. You heard what the staff director said. I'm abiding by what they say."

Former President Bill Clinton re-appointed Berry to succeed former commissioner Connie Homer, whose term expired Dec. 5, 1998. But because Clinton delayed appointing Berry until Jan. 26, 1999, she has maintained the December 5 date is irrelevant.

But a federal appeals court decision from 2002 -- pertaining to the very issue of commissioners' terms -- contradicts Berry. In that case, a three-judge panel of U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that commissioners' terms begin immediately after a vacancy occurs regardless of how long it takes the President or Congress or make an appointment.

[paudio]

Perhaps she considers it's her civil rights to have all expenses paid by the government forever...

[ClearCase_guy]

She's a loon. A power-mad, bitter loon.

[TommyDale]

The law does not pertain to this woman.

[CindyDawg]

Well let's just cancel the civil rights panel then.

[mbraynard]

Little history on her.

She was part of the leadership of the Communist Party USA until they kicked her out for being to extreme in her support of Affirmative Action, which apparently is at odds with CP-USA's egalitarian sensibilities.

[IMRight]

Hmmm. I had forgotten about her.

What a pleasant memory that adds surprisingly to my pleasure at winning this election.

She IS gone one way or the other now... right???

She can go write her book.

[pepperhead]

This is the woman that tried to keep a black man off the panel.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"I'm not doing anything except serving out my term," Berry said when asked about the dispute.

The very next day: President George W. Bush sent an escort to make certain the senile and increasingly addled Berry managed to find her way out from the building...

... permanently. :)

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

They should just stop paying her on 12/5.

[q_an_a]

that a gov. agnecy has not stopped sending her a check is the real problem. Change the locks on the doors and stop payment on the next check.

[Brilliant]

I thought that Bush replaced her previously. What's she still doing there?

[Mr. Silverback]

When she can't get into meetings after 5 December, it won't really matter whether this loony thinks her term is over or not.

[Bahbah]

"This is the woman that tried to keep a black man off the panel.",p>The very same. She said that Federal Marshalls would have to come in to seat Kirsenow. How sweet it will be to see her gone to the trash heap if history.

[paudio]

She was part of the leadership of the Communist Party USA until they kicked her out ...

LOL... even the self-proclaimed commies wanted to spit her out...

[Lancey Howard]

Wow. Deja vu.
I swear I read this very same report right here at Free Republic a couple of years ago.

[BunnySlippers]

I thought they already got rid of her.

[MississippiMan]

I swear I read this very same report right here at Free Republic a couple of years ago.

Me too. Is this a different case, or the same woman?

MM

[spokeshave]

Berry...as in Dingle berry.................but not related to Dingle Norwood

[Rebelbase]

"They should just stop paying her on 12/5."

[Corporate Law]

That is her next move. Let this bitch stay until midnight Jan. 21, 2005 and at 12:01 have armed guards throw her fat arse out into the street, "literally and formally".