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Berry Won't Leave Civil Rights Panel When Term Expires
Human Events ^ | Nov 16, 2004 | Robert B. Bluey

Posted on 11/16/2004 12:06:44 PM PST by 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.

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Perhaps she considers it's her civil rights to have all expenses paid by the government forever...
1 posted on 11/16/2004 12:06:44 PM PST by paudio
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To: paudio

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


2 posted on 11/16/2004 12:07:53 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: paudio

The law does not pertain to this woman.


3 posted on 11/16/2004 12:08:54 PM PST by TommyDale
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To: paudio

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


4 posted on 11/16/2004 12:09:03 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: paudio
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.

5 posted on 11/16/2004 12:09:47 PM PST by mbraynard
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To: paudio
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.
6 posted on 11/16/2004 12:10:45 PM PST by IMRight ("Eye" See BS)
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This is the woman that tried to keep a black man off the panel.


7 posted on 11/16/2004 12:11:36 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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"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. :)

8 posted on 11/16/2004 12:12:19 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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They should just stop paying her on 12/5.


9 posted on 11/16/2004 12:12:22 PM PST by SilentServiceCPOWife (In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
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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.


10 posted on 11/16/2004 12:12:24 PM PST by q_an_a
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To: paudio

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


11 posted on 11/16/2004 12:12:25 PM PST by Brilliant
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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.


12 posted on 11/16/2004 12:12:50 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Hey Kerry: Confucius say "KA-STANG!! YOU BUSTED!")
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"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.
13 posted on 11/16/2004 12:13:04 PM PST by Bahbah (Proud member of the pajamahadeen)
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To: mbraynard
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...

14 posted on 11/16/2004 12:13:32 PM PST by paudio (Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
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To: paudio

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


15 posted on 11/16/2004 12:13:49 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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I thought they already got rid of her.


16 posted on 11/16/2004 12:14:59 PM PST by BunnySlippers (George W. Bush is our president ... Get over it!)
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To: Lancey Howard
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

17 posted on 11/16/2004 12:16:40 PM PST by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: Lancey Howard

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


18 posted on 11/16/2004 12:16:46 PM PST by spokeshave (Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenschardenfreudery)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
"They should just stop paying her on 12/5."


19 posted on 11/16/2004 12:17:11 PM PST by Rebelbase (Indiscriminate reprisals strengthen the terrorists. Targeted ones weaken them. Aim is everything.)
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To: paudio

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".


20 posted on 11/16/2004 12:17:13 PM PST by Corporate Law (<>< -- Xavier Basketball - Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
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