Posted on 05/18/2005 5:48:45 AM PDT by ken5050
Welcome, all you Freepers, to the continuing C-span soap operas about judicial nominations. "The Guiding SEARCHLIGHT, " "As the SENATE Turns, "One NOMINATION to Live" "GERIATRIC Hospital" (for all you Byrd and Lautenberg fans out there). Follow along with us, as the Dems raise the level of histrionics, bloviation, pontification, and all around bad acting to new highs, er, lows...
Coburn just called it the Byrd Option! LOL
In these very long threads, many items get lost. I'm going to reprint (again) three of them - first from me
What's At Stake!
URGENT: Take action immediately!
The "nuclear option" -- busting the filibuster
In their zeal to pack the courts with anti-choice extremists, President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist want to break Senate rules and eliminate the Senate’s 200-year tradition of rules that foster consensus and allow the minority party a meaningful voice. This "nuclear option" would take away our most powerful line of defense against extremist judges: the filibuster.
What does the “nuclear option” have to do with the Supreme Court and the right to choose?
* President Bush has not nominated even one circuit court judge who supports a woman’s right to choose. In fact, many of his nominees have called for Roe v. Wade to be overturned. We have every reason to believe that Bush will put an anti-choice judge on the Supreme Court as soon as he gets the chance.
* President Bush may get to nominate up to four justices during his second term.
* Supreme Court justices serve for life. Once they are confirmed, they will hold extraordinary power over the lives of ordinary Americans for generations, and there is almost no way to remove them from the bench.
* The Supreme Court protects our most cherished constitutional rights, including a woman’s right to choose safe and legal abortion. If Bush stacks the Supreme Court with anti-choice justices, there’s little we can do to prevent Roe from being overturned.
During President Bush’s first term, senators used the filibuster carefully and selectively. While the Senate confirmed more than 200 of President Bush’s judicial nominees to lifetime appointments, senators used the filibuster to block only 10 of the very most controversial nominees.
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George W. Bush's Judicial Nominees
A revolution is underway in the federal courts.
Rights and laws that generations of Americans had come to take for granted have been wiped off the books, and more are at risk. Already courts have struck down anti-discrimination laws, part of the Violence Against Women Act, affirmative action programs, and other guarantees of equal opportunity. And the courts are allowing more and more restrictions on a woman’s right to choose.
NARAL Pro-Choice America has conducted comprehensive research on Bush’s anti-choice judicial nominees, and the potential damage that such manipulation of the courts could have on the future of choice.
President Bush's Drive to Pack the Federal Courts with Anti-Choice Judges
* The Bush Judges: Rolling Back Rights
* NARAL Pro-Choice America Judges and Choice Study
* Fast Growing Threats to the Right to Privacy and the Right to Choose
http://www.naral.org/Issues/courts/bush_noms_index.cfm
Biographies of Current U.S Supreme Court Justices
The retirement of a single United States Supreme Court justice could have a dramatic impact on the constitutional protection of a woman’s right to choose. The two most significant cases dealing with reproductive rights in the last decade have been decided by the narrowest of margins, a vote of 5-4.
While choice once enjoyed a comfortable majority on the Court, it now hangs precariously in the balance.
http://www.naral.org/Issues/supremecourt/scotus_bios.cfm
Yes, Coburn is cute.
GET OUT!!!!!! I'LL BRING THE POPCORN!
Isn't this going to be his first television appearance since being elected DNC chair? He's crawling out of his cave?
Sorry: I meant to ping you to this post where I reprinted some of your comments from earlier today, but clicked too soon.
Yeah, more lies have to be told.
Coburn is a conservative... if he was a pro-fetal death liberal he could have 1000 offices open and not a word would be said about it.
I like what he's saying now, I un-muted the tv to listen. He just really turned me off when he opened with the "partisan for the truth" stuff. I dunno why.
Glad my judgment is still good! LOL He seems like a good man! He sounds like a good man. So I am guessing here, that he is in fact a good man!
It is entirely up to the DEMs. If they consent to the vote on the nominees, then there is no impetus to carry out the nuke.
Republicans won't have to "give them" that deal. This is the outcome I've predicted all along. The Dems, recognizing they're losing, will simply refrain from filibustering these nominees. With no filibuster, the pubbies can't invoke the nuke option...and Dems will have preserved it for the SCOTUS nomination.
If they do that and try to filibuster a SCOTUS justice...God help 'em.
This is THE "NEW" DEMOCRAT PARTY...
Generation Pro-Choice
Keeping the government
out of your bedroom
It’s not just your mother’s pro-choice movement…
If you support access to birth control, sex education and abortion, and you've never lived in a time when abortion was illegal -- then congratulations, you are Generation Pro-Choice. And we need your help getting other young people involved in the fight to protect the right to privacy and a woman's right to choose -- or else quite frankly, we're gonna lose it.
When it comes to the politics of choice, it's hard to know what to believe, even harder to know what the real consequences will be, and almost impossible to feel like you can do anything about it. But Generation Pro-Choice is changing all that. We're not trying to save a woman’s right to privacy and right to choose from right-wing extremists any more. We're doing it.
So "Generation Pro-Choice" starts here -- but there will be no movement, no dialogue, and no change without you. There’s so much that you can do!
* Sign up to get the Generation Pro-Choice newsletter.
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* Ask Genny. If you've got questions about pro-choice issues, she's got answers!
* Talk to us. Do you have an idea for getting people moving on this issue? Want to chime in or have a question? Let us know.
* Get ideas and tools to help you organize on campus.
* Get answers. Read about women who couldn’t access reproductive health services, and find out the facts that help you debunk all the myths out there.
Dean doesn't dare go on the Fox Sunday show.......Russert's show will be a kinder, more gentle forum for the Screamer.
I dig your security angle.
That's brilliant.
Byrd? Or "bird"?
LOL!
That's okay. :-)
O.T. but I hope the majority here today will be able to be here tomorrow? I won't be back until afternoon but any hint of an unacceptable compromise has to be shot down from the start.
RINO's are floating trial balloons and it isn't going to pass for any of us. All present and future nominees get a vote AND no tricky business in selling votes to avoid a rules change. Otherwise their days in the Senate are numbers.
We're watching them.
Actually I like "bird"!
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