Posted on 10/04/2005 10:39:32 AM PDT by ajolympian2004
Ann Coulter just took apart President Bush's SCOTUS nominee on the air during her appearance on the Mike Rosen show here in Denver on 850am KOA. She called for listeners to write their senators to oppose the nomination. Wish you could have heard it!
Ann said - "Totally unqualified", called Judge Roberts "a 'dream' candidate in light of this nomination", mentioned "cronyism" over and over. Much more that I'm trying to digest. I called the station to see if they saved the audio, but no luck on that. Mike Rosen was just about speechless as Ann went on and on about why this was a lousy choice.
I agree with Ann. Huge mistake and missed opportunity.
Ann's choice, Janice Rodgers-Brown. Not enough intestinal fortitude in the White House to go with that choice.
Can't wait for Ann's column on this nomination later this week.
I'm with you. Bush has installed a long-term chief justice in Roberts (Good Lord willing), and he will outlive Ms. Miers, probably. I like the idea that Ms. Miers can bring to the very insulated court a real-world perspective based on her experience in law and politics, not to mention actual management experience. A common criticism of the court is that it is too isolated from real-world issues and Ms. Miers can cure that defect.
Will she have the fortitude to stand up to liberal justices and peer pressure to conform to the ABA and international legal types? I think she has done so already as a woman in a man's world, as a single woman in a married woman world, as a lawyer and a conservative religious type. If those don't demonstrate intestinal fortitude, I don't know what does.
The problem is that many lawyers go into the field specifically aiming to reach the courts, especially the Supreme Court if possible. They do everything they can to cultivate that rarified atmosphere where eggheads sit around discussing judicial philosophy or legal economics or deconstructing everything they can. They do everything they can to get into the "right" schools, into judicial clerkships with the "right" judges and the "right" law firms who have a track record of placing its members on the high courts. Most couldn't give a lick about the cases they work on except as stepping stones to their eventual glory on the bench. I like that Ms. Miers appears to have sidestepped that path and tried to do the best she could in a variety of fields. I believe she might be a great voice for the "normal" people we all are and love.
Incidentally, the art of legal thinking isn't cultivated only in Ivy League schools. If she could pass a bar, she has the skills needed to be a great justice. Fact is, the Supremes have very little control of the issues presented to them, except on some criminal matters. Everything else is carefully orchestrated by the parties involved and the Supremes also have the right to deny certiorari if they don't wish to address an issue. Ninety percent or more of all appeals to the Supremes aren't accepted. If Ms. Miers has the ability to review the relevant law and the facts as presented in the record, she has the skills to do the job.
I am willing to give her a chance to prove herself. The hearings ought to be great enlightenment for all of us. At least until then, and perhaps after, depending on the questions she faces, I am willing to suspend my judgment.
He was slimed by conservatoves also.
(1991 National Review article 'Thomas more Souteresque than Borkian')
GHWB did not KNOW Souter. He tooks the words of Sinunun and Rudman. The comparison couldn't be more laughable and WRONG.
Wrong. The only reason RATS successfully filibustered the circuit court nominees, including Rogers-Brown, was because their media handmaidens protected them; the American people knew little or nothing about it.
The media cannot protect the RATS during a filibuster of a USSC nominee: the position is too visible, too newsworthy to the American people. The fight would be public, visible to all. JRB would become a household name.
The President should have sent up JRB and dared the RATS and the media to assault an accomplished black woman in front of the American people, and expose these socialists for the hypocrites that they are.
So many bashed her because she bashed the smartest guy in the room, Judge John Roberts. It's almost as though she envies his intellect.
He is when it comes to direct confrontation with liberals! Janice Rodgers Brown would have forced the Democraps to deny a black woman the right to a seat on the SCOTUS. Now he choices someone that Reid and McCain like?
No we're not, since that's what her specialty is. From Wikipedia:
Coulter is a legal correspondent for the magazine Human Events and holds a degree in constitutional law.
Here's part of her bio from her site:
Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.
After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.
A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.
That's why I consider her an expert in constitutional law. Miers' resume does not even come close.
Your witness.
Do you KNOW that Janice Rogers Brown wanted the nomination?
That she was willing to put herself thru the trashing by the democrats?
NO, YOU DO NOT.
"I am proud to be a Bush-bot."
i.e. I love Illegal Immigration, inching us toward socialized medicine, liberal education policies, and campaign Finance reform
"A Cheney Chick."
see above, but add "differs with Bush on Gay agenda"
I'll leave Rummy alone...but
"Dr. Rice 2008"
i.e. pro-abbortion and pro-palestine
Here's a novel idea. Let's give a chance to someone who's already proven themselves. Just for the hell of it, is it okay for the party in power to go with the percentage shot instead of the half-court heave?
Savage in a skirt. ;o)
Ann has never impressed me. She seeks her own importance. Her speech and shank of hair is disconcerting. She should put on 10 pounds and cut off 10 inches of hair if she was real. She is wrong about Meir, to me.
Ann Counter is a media whore... she says the most outrageous things just to promote controversy and her book.
One of the best points about Harriet Meiers is that she will be confirmed. Most of other candidates mentioned have long paper trails. They would be opposed by the usual suspects, the Dems, but also by the RINOs like the Maine Twins.
John Fund said it best. Almost the only person who could get confirmed in this poisoned atmosphere is someone who has been in the witness protection program.
LOL! So, do you think women with a little extra padding have more sense, or do you think she was having a hypoglycemic attack?
I'm not putting you down, but why the hell does anyone care what Ann Coulter says or thinks?
Like someone else said, "Ann calm down and go eat something".
Absolutely right.
Thank God Samuel Adams and John Adams were around to stir up a confrontation with the British, or else the constitution probably wouldn't exist.
If we're not ready to start a fight to correct the mistakes of the past, we're worthless as a party.
He got slimed from both sides, including the Conservative side, and now these same Conservatives who went out of their way to make Thomas' life miserable for a week, want a judge in the mold of Scalia and Thomas.
What was Coulter's undergrad major? Meirs is Math, very analytical and difficult.
On your first point, I can't take credit for it. I think I read it on another post yesterday morning.
On your second, you left out the lame Bu-sheep response: "Bush is playing Chess while you are playing checkers." I love that one.
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