Posted on 07/01/2005 8:17:53 AM PDT by Sun
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Retiring By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor July 01, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her resignation on Friday. She said she will stay on until a successor is named.
The White House said President Bush would make a statement in the White House Rose Garden sometime after 11 a.m., but press reports said he was not expected to nominate O'Connor's successor at that time.
The timing of O'Connor's announcement, coming on a slow news day before the long holiday weekend, caught much of Washington by surprise; but for weeks, press reports have speculated that either O'Connor or Chief Justice William Rehnquist or both - probably would step down.
"Forget the individual's feelings about abortion. Find someone who doesn't legislate from the bench or read things into the Constitution and everything will take care of itself."
You will find that pro-lifers DO NOT legislate from the bench.
My theory is that since pro-lifers have integrity, they will do the right thing about everything. Take a look at pro-lifers, like Thomas and Scalia. They surely do not legislate from the bench.
Take a look at the five Supremes that want to take away our property. They are pro-abortion.
Pro-lifers = integrity, on all things.
"Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, and anti-big government tax!"
Don't forget PROPERTY RIGHTS!
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
No, I am not saying that at all. All I am saying that that it should not be the central issue. Make the constitution the central issue. I am a pro life person, but I also know if abortion becomes the issue at the confirmations, Once again we will lose.
Somebody can decide that the Roe decision was wrong and not be pro life - they are not inexorably linked.
Agreed
Yeah, like Eric Rudolf.
Spare me the holier than thou schtick.
Let's remind the Republican party that if Alberto Gonzales is appointed to the Supreme Court, it will be evidence that the Republican party has betrayed pro-lifers and conservatives for decades. It will be impossible to regain the trust of many voters if he is nominated.
How about a nice, strict constructionist female jutice? :-)
justice..
But, O'Connor was on the correct side of the Kelo case.
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True, but I think tapping into the public outrage over that decision and focusing on a nominee who would embrace economic/property rights and strictly interpret the constitution would be a great sell for a great justice.
I don't see him as renominating someone who just went through the process in the past 6 months...it will be a good choice and ALL the senators need to be faxed until their machines overload to approve a worthy nominee!
well, how can the dems obstruct her when they said she wasn't extreme etc.. in whatever deal the RINOs made?I think she is somewhat young too... not sure how old..
I received this from Father Pavone of Priests for Life, via an automated e-mail.
"With her resignation, a Supreme Court vacancy has been created. We have every
confidence that President Bush will appoint a nominee who will exercise the
restraint necessary to judges to strictly apply the Constitution rather than write
new policies into it. Even so, we know that as you are reading this, the White
House is being flooded with calls regarding the vacancy. Even if President Bush
is predisposed to nominate a judge who recognizes the many levels on which Roe was wrongly decided, it is extremely difficult for politicians to withstand pressure
that is heavily against their inclinations."
(excerpt)
"Let's remind the Republican party that if Alberto Gonzales is appointed to the Supreme Court, it will be evidence that the Republican party has betrayed pro-lifers and conservatives for decades. It will be impossible to regain the trust of many voters if he is nominated."
It could damage the Republican Party, more than they realize.
Even people who did not support the war voted for Bush, because they expect him to pick conservative judicial nominees.
Conservatives are tired of Republican presidents picking "moderates" as they have done in the past.
"How about a nice, strict constructionist female jutice? :-)"
Since O'Connor was a female, it just might be a female.
But I don't care, as long as the person is a pro-life, conservative.
Siobhan
8mm
Thanks for pinging this.
I'm writing letters to editors to religious and secular small town newspapers to ask folks to contact the president.
"Edith Hollan Jones, 5th Circuit."
I'll check her out. President Bush might select a woman to replace O'Connor.
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