Posted on 05/28/2009 7:12:16 AM PDT by VU4G10
Sadly, George H.W. Bush's picks continue to haunt conservatives, as we now have a Sotomayor nomination. Make no mistake: Sotomayor is a hard-left nominee who is more liberal than Judge Souter. Her judicial philosophy -- based on her previous comments and decisions -- implies that she believes her personal political agenda trumps the law.
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I thought Clinton nominated her. It was bush SR
Don’t you love how the “conservative” big mouths preface every criticism by saying, “she will be confirmed”?
Wonder how long it will take before we see how many liberal appointments W made?
Worst mistake Ronald Reagan ever made was picking Bush for his VP!!!
I read somewhere that he didn’t actually choose her, it was some deal with New York senators in which they got to choose one of every four picks, something which would no longer be allowed. Does anyone know anything about this?
I also loved Reagan’s pick of Sandra Day O’Conner...
I have never believed Bush Sr. was a conservative.
I am not sure W made many appointments.
Bush Sr. nominated her for the District Court. Clinto nominated her for the Appeals Court. District Court nominees are traditionally recommended by a U.S Senator from within his/her home state. Unless there is some big objection the President usually goes along with that recommendation. She was recommended to the District Court by then Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Nobody voiced any objections at the time. When Clinton nominated her to the Appeals Court, the Republicans held up her approval for over 6 months.
What do you consider "many?"
Following is a list of all United States federal judges appointed by President George W. Bush during his presidency.
[1] In total Bush appointed two Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States (including one Chief Justice), 61 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 261 judges to the United States district courts.
I’m sick of conservatives blaming the kitchen sink and the leaky faucet too on something that bush did over 20 years ago.
Conservatives screwed it up by allowing Obama to win.
The Bush family has been a pox on America.
From a Byron York column 5/26/2009:
The first thing you have to understand is how judges are nominated to the federal district courts, which are below the circuit courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. The higher courts are often the stage for ideologically-based confirmation fights. The lower district courts, are, in the words of one former Bush official, “darn near patronage jobs.” Senators, even those in the opposing party from the White House, wield great power over who is nominated to the district court seats in their states. And in 1991, when Sotomayor was nominated, the Senate was controlled by Democrats, and the two senators from New York were Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Republican Alphonse D’Amato.
By a number of accounts, Moynihan and D’Amato had a longstanding arrangement. “It was a special deal whereby D’Amato agreed to defer to the pick of Moynihan for one out of every four district court seats,” another former Bush official told me. “That was a deal that preceded President Bush I, so basically Moynihan was picking one of four district court nominees.” That deal stood even though Republicans controlled the White House and thus (theoretically) the right to choose judges for the federal courts.
And at that moment, in 1991, it was Moynihan’s turn to choose, and his choice was Sotomayor. There is no evidence that anyone in the Bush I White House or Justice Department thought Sotomayor was a conservative, or even a moderate, but no one wanted a fight with Moynihan. “She was not our first choice,” recalls a third Bush I official, “but she was someone who was, if we were going to get a nominee confirmed to that position — essentially someone we had to go with.”
Who knows whether GHWB was actaully pro-life, after having been pro-choice until picked by Reagan as VP. But here is a remarkable story that depicts Warren Rudman, perhaps Souter’s number one advocate, as having intentionally deceived Republicans about Souter’s true views on abortion.
http://www.visandvals.org/When_Biden_and_Rudman_Wept.php
But Souter definitely completely the deceit, waiting until a few months after W’s eight years ended to resign and leave the appointment of his successor to the most extreme leftist president ever.
The post you replied to was about W. You might remember him. He made three supreme court nominations. It would've been only two, but genuine conservatives, whom you loathe, forced him to drop Harriet Miers. He left a legacy of singlehandedly destoying the Republican party gains that would never had been made had "read my lips" been re-elected. W exited stage left saying, "I had to sacrifice free market principles to save the free market." That was made possible because we failed to learn from our mistake of 20 years ago.
Supreme Court Justices aside; I was under the impression GW had not filled a lot of vacancies on the benches.
The Bush family has been a like bleeding bulging hemroid to America.
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