Posted on 09/15/2005 4:11:01 AM PDT by nj26
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s testimony about the existence of a right to privacy, the importance of respecting precedent, and the need for the Constitution to adapt to changing conditions has alarmed some rank-and-file conservatives, who are filling up Internet message boards with predictions that Roberts may turn out to be a moderate justice.
Many say they believe that Roberts's answers have shown him to be to the left of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, whom President Bush promised to use as models in selecting new justices. Some compare Roberts to David Souter and Anthony Kennedy -- Republican appointees who proved to be moderates who supported abortion rights.
One writer on the conservative FreeRepublic.org site wrote that yesterday's questioning by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, had ''exposed Roberts" as a moderate.
''Biden gave Roberts every opportunity to even minimally associate himself with Scalia and Thomas, and he ran away from them like he was running from a burning building -- not a good sign," the post said.
Bush chose Roberts, a highly respected lawyer with a short judicial tenure, over conservative judges with longer track records on issues of importance to conservatives. Still, almost all conservative judicial groups endorsed Roberts, recognizing that his lack of a long judicial record made him less susceptible to liberal attacks.
But the first three days of Roberts's confirmation hearings, during which the nominee has taken pains to portray himself as a cautious moderate, sparked concerns among grass-roots conservatives that Roberts may join a long line of Republican Supreme Court appointees who proved to be more liberal on the bench than the presidents who chose them.
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It's FreeRepublic.com, not .org
I wonder if this reporter got anything else wrong.
Please post when the next meeting of the Flat Earth Society will take place. We certainly don't want to miss it!
"It's FreeRepublic.com, not .org I wonder if this reporter got anything else wrong."
LOL. Maybe he did his "research" over at FreeRepublic.org
Selective??? The media?? Oh, come now.
I disagree. When we look back at the dissapointing nominations- O'Connor, we have to keep in mind there was a Democratic Senate. So while we may have had a Republican President, it was not enough to seal the deal. We had to compromise- or we wouldn't get anyone through.
.org?
Deliberately limiting our exposure, I guess.
But he called us "writers". Not bloggers or Freepers or anything else. Soon we'll be "amateur journalists". Note to media: If you ever want any questionable material vetted, just post it here and give it a couple of hours.
How about lowering the melodrama level of your post. I'm talking about facts while you give no thoughtful response other than sarcasm. What do you think regarding Roberts, and why have you been so impressed with someone who has alarmed myself and other conservatives with his answers over the last couple of days?
Of course, if you have Firefox, you don't need to enter in the suffix of the URL.
Oh, that's right, if they don't have the brains to try multiple suffixes, they don't have the brains to download Firefox.
FreeRepublic.org? Newcomers may have a hard time finding us there (unless we have another url that I don't know about...)
#5 Agreed.
"They're reading us."
They have been reading us for a long time. Not just here but around the world. We are held up as an example of conservative thought therefore we might consider keeping the discussions cerebral and logical while maintaining our passion.
"I'm voting YES."
/revise and extend so the MSM idiot-lurkers don't get even more confused:
"I'm voting YES via lobbying my congress-critter.
Well Thomas didn't change his philosophy after being racked pillar to post during his confirmation ( and it drives the lefties nuts that he hasn't seen the light )let's hope that IF Roberts IS a conservative he has the same toughness of character
That might excuse the Presidents in some of those cases (actually, Reagan had a GOP Senate, except at the very end), but it doesn't excuse the fact that at the time, most conservatives thought that these nominees were conservatives.
Roberts is either telling the truth, in which case he's gonna be the latest in a long line of Supreme Court disasters for conservatives, or he's not. A living constitution is a liberal constitution. Period.
You're hoping that Roberts has the toughness of character to stick by the liberal philosophy he expressed in the confirmation hearings?
"On the other hand, the liberal position that somehow the right to privacy gives a woman the right to kill her child is insane."
I agree. The fourth amendment concerns GOVERNMENT seizing without reasonable warrant a person or their property and belongings. So, the right to privacy is certainly constitutional and should be protected in the manner in which it was written, however, abortion clearly does not fall under the amendment and is clearly judicial activism.
Here’s why. If a child, unborn or not, is labeled as "property" that is protected under the fourth amendment, then abortion could easily be overturned just by citing the thirteen amendment which outlawed slavery.
However, the abortionist found a loophole by claiming that the fetus is not it’s own person since it resides within the mothers body, making the fetus the property or same person as the mother. Science clearly shows this as not the case since the fetus, at the moment of conception, has it’s own unique DNA, can be of different gender, blood type, (the host and fetus blood do not mix), et. In truth, the fetus relies on the mother only for protection and nourishment while it develops but is its own unique human being. What is needed then is a simple truthful scientific definition of what constitutes an individual human being and the role the host plays during pregnancy. Establish that definition legally and abortion falls apart all over itself.
All this seems like common sense in us but in practice it can be quite difficult…especially legally.
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