Posted on 10/31/2005 10:18:38 AM PST by freedomdefender
When Harriet Miers’ nomination was first announced, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley called her an “amazingly bad choice.” This morning, he weighed in Samuel Alito:
JONATHAN TURLEY: He’s the top choice for particularly pro-life people. Sam Alito is viewed as someone who is likely to join the hard right in likely narrowing Roe and possibly voting to overturn Roe.
KATIE COURIC: So he is a strict constructionist in every since of the word? I know President Bush is looking for a conservative jurist, so he fits the bill in terms of someone who will interpret the Constitution literally and may disagree with the right to privacy, which is the foundation of Roe v. Wade?
TURLEY: Oh absolutely. There will be no one to the right of Sam Alito on this Court. This is a pretty hardcore fellow on abortion issues.
COURIC: Not even Antonin Scalia?
TURLEY: They’ll have to make a race to the right, but I think it will be by a nose, if at all. …
COURIC: And ideology trumped gender in this case, right?
TURLEY: I think so. I think the president wanted, first of all, to show he could pick someone who was clearly qualified and has the resume, but he also wanted to rally his base. He’s done both with Sam Alito. No one on the conservative base can be unhappy with Sam Alito. The question is whether they can weather this storm that will be coming, I think, and whether there will be a filibuster.
Maybe Ginsburg will relapse from cancer and retire, and Bush will then appoint Janet Rogers Brown???
Gee--a guy can DREAM, can't he??
Ditto. I like Scalia, and I like Alito, but there's only one Justice Clarence Thomas.
"Senator Frist is already exploring ways on how to surrender to the democrats on this appointment."
That's not what I heard Frist say with my own ears this morning in an interview. He told Tony Snow that he had spent a large part of the morning with Alito; that he is highly qualified, and that if the other side filibusters, he is ready to invoke the constitutional option AND he HAS the votes to do it!
Ok, I was going to post "go piss in someone else's wheaties." But I see you took care of it already.
Seen the Gladius Flashlight but Blackwater Night Ops?
"And whether the GOP will use the Democrat filibuster...."
They may not filibuster. I personally rather the democrats NOT filibuster.
My read is that question is 100% dependent on Specter.
If Specter chooses to oppose Alito, even mildly, not only is Alito toast, but the Nuke/Constitutional option will fail to gain the votes needed.
That has got to be one of the stupidest quotes I have ever read. So now people should be nominated ONLY because of their gender?
Perky Katie continues to set women back. Thanks Katie.
"Well now we know how the doom and gloomers are taking this news. Nice way to spin out of a potentially great news day."
My bet is Frist is actually thinking of how to surrender. Of course this has nothing to do with Hillary and Frist's FBI file and stock transactions. /sarcasm
That sort of defeatism is really more appropriate for the French Army, not Free Republic.
[[We have a whole contingent of Fundamentalist identity politics people who would have taken a Fundamentalist moderate with a crappy resume over a Catholic conservative with a great resume.]]
Flawed reasoning, Rodney. You use an assumption, rather than fact, that Miers was/is a fundamentalist moderate, and compound your error by extending that assumption to a preference of your assumption over another of your assumptions. Is it your interest to keep trying to foster a divide ?
If the libs want to surrender, I'm all for accepting it gracefully.
Is Frist French???? Figures....
Scalia, Alito...will the SCOTUS be over-Italicized?
Weather the storm? It's called the Nuclear Option and we know how to use it!!! The Base is backing this Nomination! Beware Dim's. Pick your battles, this one is one you won't win!!!
So which assumption do you disagree with?
Anyway, do you deny that people are upset that another Catholic was nominated?
On what basis do you say that?
Say what?
That Frist is fixin' to surrender.
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