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Posted on 10/31/2005 3:12:28 AM PST by kcvl
Per Fox News...
The Constitution is a document that restricts the power of the federal government. How can FReepers, writing on a message board, in any way shape or form do something unconstitutional?
demanding a certain political leaning is unConstitutional, etc.
We weren't demanding a political leaning. We were demanding an originalist scholar.
Amen to that. 8) This is sure a much better legacy to have than clinton: "white water, bluenski dress, raised taxes, gutted the military, secrets to the Chinese, allowing terrorism to take the world without any resistance". Bush will have the legacy of returning the Supreme Court to a majority of Judges who are beholded to the Constitution, not liberal "judges" beholden to liberal socialist ideals who confuse themselves with Congressmen.
I don't buy your premise that a call for the President to withdraw the Miers nomination before hearings is an affront to the Constitution. Neither does any other serious student of the Constitution and the nomination-confirmation-appointment process.
And any GOP Senator who attempts to float an argument on that premise is foolish. Not only is it baseless in fact and history, it is self-destructive.
Ginsburg is not in very good health.
WOW! It is very comforting to hear this great speech from Senator Graham.
The third Justice from the Trenton NJ area.
First full disclosure, I'm Catholic.
Second, my first choice would have been Edith Jones, not a Catholic.
Both are good conservatives. I suspect Edith was waylaid by the gang of 14 and Arlen Spector because of her outspoken views on Roe and the role of religion in the founding of this country.
But Alito is a fine pick.
Let's judge the nominees on the content of their character and their judicial philosophy, not on the church they attend.
How does this DUmmie really feel?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2200496
HAHAHAHA
I think I shall have to use it as my tagline for a bit. 8)
please see my post #948 that quotes the President's public statement when he switched the Roberts nomination to apply to Rehnquist rather than O'Connor.
I think you are right that vacancies by death take precedence over vacancies by resignation, especially when the resigning O'Connor offered to stay on the court until her replacement was confirmed.
What few people know is that if the SCt Term had opened with the center chair vacant, John Paul Stevens as the senior member of the court in years served would have been acting Chief for administrative purposes: assigning who will write opinions, for example. Obviously conservatives did not want Stevens filling that role for any length of time, so the Rehnquist seat needed to be filled quickly.
But now that Roberts is Chief he is the "senior member" of the Court--the Chief is considered the senior member of the Court regardless of how many years he has actually been on the Court.
I used to work for a lawyer who argued a few SCt cases so I know all kinds of stuff like this.
I think Scalia was probably very disappointed, but he is a lightning rod figure now and could not have been confirmed as quickly as Roberts. Bush really needed to get a Chief before the First Monday in October because of the Stevens situation I explain above.
Looking real good.
Feel the love! LOL
The President has the bully pulpit and failed to use is his entire first term.
I'm still pissed about Miguel Estrada.
Because if there's one blazing fact to emerge from the Miers flap, it's a message, loud and clear, to the RINO's in the Senate. Especially those seven who undermined the party and went out making deals on their own.
The President had every opportunity to consolidate and direct those constituencies who brought the content of the Miers nomination to light against the Lindsay Graham's of this world. Instead, he backed an aged and ailing Arlen Specter against an up and coming Pat Toomey.
AS WELL AS Frist and others scared and reluctant to invoke what was called the "nuclear" option. They were too afraid of bad press.
If you think the President had nothing to do with choosing Frist in the first place you weren't watching carefully.
I am waiting, with bated breath and unlimited interest, to see a John McCain go gallvanting all about and talking this nominee down. Conservatives across the country made it know that they considered the Miers nomination a wussy thing to do.
And we'd better well get started making it unmistakeably clear to Senator McCain that life will be very painful if he doesn't line up and salute.
You're wrong.
Two "conservative" Senators on the Judiciary Committee TOLD the White House that they would NOT vote Miers out of Committee if Miers' work-related documents were not released to the Senate. These two knew the Constitutional problems with that, and clearly made the play to deny Miers her vote.
Though there are other similar articles, see Krauthammer's article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506622/posts
By the way, I also believe it is unConstitutional for the Judiciary Committee itself to stop a vote for the nominee by its ability to deny sending the nominee to the Senate.
Libertarians will not be overly pleased with Alito, his views on open borders, religious displays on public property and abortion do not accord with the Libertarian Party much at all.
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I have all the lettering done. The gavel is do'able....but it will have to wait until after breakfast and coffee. It looks good so far.
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