So hey, why not?
Posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:34 AM PST by Helicondelta
This week, the president announced his intention to nominate John Roberts to be a Supreme Court justice.
His nomination has been met with widespread praise, from left and right. Nevertheless, there are some who have raised complaints that his two years on the bench provide insufficient record for them to assess (and attack) his jurisprudence.
That complaint misses the mark for three reasons.
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So hey, why not?
I think we all thought Roberts was a good choice. What a terrible disappointment.
Roberts would be fitting for the times considering his tourtured logic in declaring ACA a tax.
Scalia’s death may very well be that pivotal moment between when you thought everything was trending and going wrong to when you could place the actual time when you knew it. Night of Long Knifes was another in another era.
If she’s not, why is she always on TV?
You are exactly right. Obama is a lame duck president and cannot, must not be allowed to shape the future of the court for decades to come....
There must be some way to stop him. Cancel Congress until next November? 😉
LOL!!!! Why not? She might be pretty good. lol!!
I’m not a noob. While I agree with the uncertainty at the time about Roberts and feelings here, I think most of us realize the mistake. I AM for TRUMP BTW, but I don’t hold Cruz responsible for thinking like most of us at the time.
I’d also like to add that ‘noobness’ so to speak is something that I look upon similarly to seniority in the House or Senate. SENIORITY in the Senate begat McConnell; SENIORITY in the House got us Boehner and now Ryan. That worked out grand for us, didn’t it?
Seniority doesn’t mean sh!t to me. No Senator or Congressman’s words and thoughts and deeds hold any more sway over the districts and states that other Congressman and Senators represent - Americans, all. Seniority is often used as the sole criteria of worth. And, that is not always the case, particularly with respect to what we see in our government.
Exactly right. The travesty of travesties would indeed be if a lame duck were able to shape the court for decades to come.
Stop Obama! Focus (everyone)!
Cruz knew him best.. don’t blame people on here for taking Cruz’s word the guy was great.. he said Roberts was second to none on judicial temperament for the job on the USSC.. he couldn’t have promoted the accolades of Roberts more if he had been his mother
fact is it was Cruz who had bad judgement on Roberts and then he lies about Trump right to his face on picking liberal judges after Trump had just given his opinion in the debate on actual judges he’d pick if he were President.. and that did require a liar and hypocrite charge thrown right square back in Cruz’s face
I never heard of the guy.
Ok, I read what that crazy ass harpy said and nowhere does that article cite Cruz as having said what the other poster alleged. So your point is?
No, Cruz said during last nights debate that he was for Luttig. He had said the same in another debate back and forth with Bush.
“But Ted said he didn’t back him and wouldn’t have nominated him?
Liar.”
No, Ted said he would have nominated his then current boss. But of course everyone backed Roberts once nominated.
So that would make you a buffoon.
My fault Palmer, I thought you were replying to my other post and I read and wrote my reply to you in that light. My fault.
So to respond properly to you: read those comments...virtually every freeper replying to that was saying that she was wrong, that Roberts was a great pick. I stand by my no.7
It’s easy to say that now. He can easily have been for anyone. The oped’s tell a slightly different story.
Where is the oped saying that Luttig should be the nominee?
Roberts was a catastrophe. Remember he was second choice after Bush II tried to appoint his personal attorney as a justice.
Not everyone see my 37 in this tread. Maybe we should paid a little attention to what she is saying now?
Yes, virtually every freeper was on board. But there were a handful that pointed out that Roberts was a stealth candidate and we had no luck with those. But those folks lost the argument in that thread.
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