Posted on 06/18/2005 9:17:07 PM PDT by GOPGuide
[SNIP] but outside advisers to the White House believe the main candidates are federal appeals Judges John G. Roberts and J. Michael Luttig and possibly Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
For a time, many officials and analysts in Washington assumed that Gonzales, a longtime Bush confidant and his first-term White House counsel, had been ruled out as a candidate because he took over the Justice Department in February. But in recent days, several advisers with close ties to the White House said Bush appears to be considering Gonzales, after all.
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"He's clearly in the running," said one adviser who, like others, shared insights on the condition of anonymity to preserve relations with the White House. "And that's an easy confirmation -- that's the easy confirmation."
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Furthermore every prolife group in the US WILL ABANDON the GOP FOREVER.
A Gonzales nomination WILL provoke a full scale grassroots civil war, with the grassroots threatening to torpedoe Frist, and Brownback, in 08, and Sabotage Santorums reelection bid in 2006 (Santorum is ranked 3rd in the Senate leadership) if they support Gonzales.
I don't think more than 20 GOP Senators would vote for Gonzales.
God Help us!
I never expected Roe to be overturned, anyway. What made you think it would be overturned anytime soon?
You can't count on the Supreme Court to overturn this. It will never happen.
You have to make is socially unacceptable and taboo.
That's the only way.
I too believe Gonzalez is the wrong man at the wrong time for the Chief Justice position. I have no confidence that he comprehends in the slightest the problems we have on our southern border.
The last thing I want to do is put him into a position of having to decide constitutional matters concerning our borders, or rights to be assigned to foreign nationals. There's no way in hell I want that man on the Supreme Court.
The more time that passes, the more brash the moves by the elitists.
I think we have enough problems revolving around Bush and his "affection" for the Mexican population and their carte-blanche in this country....when is enough, enough??? Is that the only way Bush can get a decent judge on the court? Make the choice a minority?
Hello America??
You mean like David Souter?
Fine - - let him run away, and don't anybody chase after him!
I suspect these outside advisers have no clue who the President will nominate. They are, after all, outsiders.
But if you'll feel better going into full-scale panic mode on the basis of a WaPo article, by all means don't let me talk you out of it.
If Gonzales is selected I hope the Senate Republicans will filibuster him. But of course even if that happens then GOP senators like Chafee, McCain, etc. finally would use the nuclear option....
I'm not convinced that a revisit of Roe vs Wade will end in the same outcome. People are starting to understand that life begins at inception. Those that don't, are soon going to realize that if fetuses can survive outside of the womb sub 20 weeks, then killing them off right up to that is wrong.
I believe 22 weeks is doable now. I look for that to decrease in upcoming years.
If I'm not mistaken, the court already agreed to review something related to Roe Vs Wade recently. Perhaps someone else can remind us what that was, unless I am mistaken.
Some of the fiscal conservatives and libertarians in the forum don't seem to realize that there is NO WAY a conservative government can be formed without pro-life help. If they think their issues are important, I can assure them that the right to life is far more basic to us.
If Bush nominates a pro-abortion candidate for SCOTUS, he will go down in flames. That is the one thing that is simply unacceptable. Legalized abortion has been distorting our entire justice system for more than 30 years. It must go.
I had no problems with Gonzalez as attorney general, but he is unacceptable for SCOTUS. Absolutely unacceptable. That one move would undo everything Bush has done for the pro-life cause, pure and simple.
I agree. Roe is not going to be overturn, first I think you need two picks to get a five votes (I think just William, Anthoney, and Thomas will vote to overturn it.) need to overturn it. And it seems William is likely to go in the next few days so it be down to two.
My understanding is different. It is my understanding that Scalia would move to Chief Justice of the United States, and that Gonzales would get the Associate Justice spot.
If President Bush nominates Gonzales for anything close to the Supreme Court then I think it would cause the loss of faith in him among conservatives in general. I don't think it is going to happen, liberals wish it would but they know that Bush will nominate a solid conservative and nothing less. Roe vs Wade is a horrible ruling and it should've been overturned but it will probably be with us for some time. The way is to errode it bit by bit by passing laws requiring parental and informed consent, passing laws regulating Abortion Clinics and making sure they meet the same standards that ordinary clinics are held to, and passing laws protecting the unborn when their mothers are violently attacked resulting in misscarriage. There are reasonable ways to box abortion in and force a reevalution of Roe vs Wade.
Anonymous sources?
I'll strongly disagree with you on that. A pro-abort will be a shoe-in. Almost all of the democrats would vote for one, and at least 10, more likely 20 Republicans would do so as well. Where are you going to get 51 votes to defeat a pro-abort judge if one was put up by Bush?
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