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I vote for any nominee that causes a vein to explode in the skull of any of these jerks.
Posted on 07/13/2005 3:48:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 07/13/2005 4:11:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
With O'Connor's retirement, Rehnquist's possible retirement this summer, and hints of the possibility that Ginsburg and Stevens may be retiring within his term, President Bush has an historic opportunity to reshape the court. This is the opportunity that we've all been fighting for. Most of us are counting on the president filling these vacancies with solid conservatives who respect and abide by the Constitution and we will be sadly disappointed if the president appoints squishy moderates.
Sadly disappointed? Did I say, sadly disappointed? Hell, we'll be up in arms!
But that's just my opinion. Before we go much further in this discussion, I'd like to get yours. Please answer the following FR poll question, then come back and post your opinion.
Assuming a potential supreme court nominee is qualified in all other respects, which of the following concerns should be the deciding factor:
Acceptable to minority party
Maintain balance of court
Must be moderate
Must be mainstream
Gender/race/ethnicity
Friendship/loyalty
Pro life/marriage
Must be originalist
Other
Pass
While I don't think the SCOTUS nominee will sour some on Bush, it will sour me futher if the individual is not a originalist.
I have some grave concerns with Bush's actions on some issues. A bad nomination isn't necessarily make or break for me. It may for some. I'm already quite angry at the guy.
Good thing I happened to scroll into that originalist thread the other day..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1441955/posts
Originalist ... what else?
True. However, Thomas is my #1 fave Justice, Scalia is a CLOSE second...and Rhenquist a close third.
The mission of the Constitution Party is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity through the election, at all levels of government, of Constitution Party candidates who will uphold the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. It is our goal to limit the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, Constitutional functions and to restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations.
Words mean different things to different people. You may be right and my connotation may be wrong.
Your thoughts ran along with mine there. I'd probably have worded it Constitutionalist as well.
I also voted originalist.
I've been as worried as many others here on FR but I am beginning to think the President will keep his word. His record on other judges has been pretty damn good as far as I've seen!
Same here.
The President has always pointed to SCJ Scalia and SCJ Thomas as his type of person to sit on the USSC. I will hold him to that standard.
Must be originalist
OTHER
I vote for any nominee that causes a vein to explode in the skull of any of these jerks.
originalist(Someone thats sticks to the constitution)
I would have voted that way if I understood what it meant.
Must be originalist
I knew some people wouldn't know what one was so I thought it would have been nice if the poll had a bracket explaing what it is. originalist(Someone thats sticks to the constitution)
Must be originalist
With an Originalist, is there even a question about the 2nd amendment?
In my book, that amendment is the spine that makes the others, possible.
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