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He could be the next Supreme Court justice
USA TODAY ^ | 3/18/02 | Joan Biskupic

Posted on 03/18/2002 2:45:54 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 03/18/2002 2:45:54 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Encouraging! I'm glad serious thought is being given to good Supreme Court nominees.
2 posted on 03/18/2002 2:54:22 AM PST by livius
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To: kattracks
Not that it matters, the Demoncrats would smear Gandhi and Mother Theresa (or thier own mothers, for that matter), if they had to.
3 posted on 03/18/2002 3:16:34 AM PST by Psalm 73
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To: kattracks
Such moves have won Gonzales support among conservative Republicans such as Orrin Hatch of Utah, the GOP's ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Gonzales would need his backing to ascend to the high court.

Ha. Orrin Hatch a conservative? I think not.

4 posted on 03/18/2002 3:21:33 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: livius
In the interview last year, he was careful when discussing judicial philosophy. He declined to answer specific questions on controversial issues that inevitably confront Supreme Court nominees, such as abortion and affirmative action. He emphasized that his personal views might be different from how he would vote on a case.

Gonzales' two-year tenure on Texas' Supreme Court, which ended when he resigned so he could follow Bush to Washington, was too brief to offer much insight into his attitudes as a jurist. Texas lawyers regarded him as a moderate on a generally conservative court.

This is a lie. He's pro-abortion and has ruled that way when on the Texas supreme court:

Public scrutiny of Gonzales obviously increased after he came to Washington, and criticism hasn't come only from the left. Several months ago, anti-abortion activists started circulating messages against him for voting last year, as a member of the Texas Supreme Court, to allow a young woman to have an abortion without notifying her parents. Gonzales also disturbed abortion-rights activists by writing at the time that he was "impartially" applying state law "without imposing my moral view."

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5 posted on 03/18/2002 3:26:22 AM PST by VA Advogado
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6 posted on 03/18/2002 3:28:26 AM PST by blackbag
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To: kattracks
It won't matter. If the Rats get a whiff he's a conservative he won't be on the U.S Supreme Court. They fired the shot across the bow in l'affair Charles W. Pickering and they hope President Bush heard the message.
7 posted on 03/18/2002 3:37:44 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: Lithasis
You couldn't have put it better. Now will someone please tell Trent "Gutless Wonder" Lott to step aside for the good of the party? We need all the help we can get between now and November and he's not the one to provide it.
9 posted on 03/18/2002 3:41:03 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: VA Advogado
I like Hatch for the most part I also liked it when he dissed the RIAA.
10 posted on 03/18/2002 3:42:04 AM PST by weikel
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To: weikel
Well he's a better follower (in the minority) than he is a leader (chairman).
11 posted on 03/18/2002 3:45:24 AM PST by VA Advogado
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Im not familiar with his history can you tell me some example of nonconservative actions?
12 posted on 03/18/2002 3:48:01 AM PST by weikel
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To: weikel
Im not familiar with his history can you tell me some example of nonconservative actions?

I dont have a lot of time this morning to dig up specifics, but he's famous for hooking up with Ted Kennedy to introduce legislation.

Example

13 posted on 03/18/2002 3:51:42 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: kattracks
One of Gonzales' most controversial actions in that post was helping to get George W. Bush excused from jury duty in 1996, a situation that could have required the governor to disclose his then-secret 1976 conviction for drunken driving in Maine. Gonzales suggested to the judge and defense lawyer that if Bush served, he would not, as governor, be able to pardon the defendant in the future.

I remember this being touted as a "scandal", to hide GWB's past. My question is - How many sitting governors have ever sat on jury duty? Sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me, just as Judge Gonzales ruled.

14 posted on 03/18/2002 3:59:29 AM PST by FairWitness
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Liberal justice John Paul Stevens...

That's an oxymoron.

15 posted on 03/18/2002 4:19:55 AM PST by Steve0113
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To: kattracks
Wait a minute, isn't Speedy the one who voted to allow a minor to have an abortion without the consent of her parents while he served on the Texas Supreme Court? Everybody knows that Bush is pro-life, because he says so. Therefore, the story cannot be true.
16 posted on 03/18/2002 4:44:41 AM PST by helmsman
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To: kattracks
Interesting how often USA Today uses the "conservative" label to describe people and policies in this article. Think they used the term "liberal" as often in the corresponding article about Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she was under consideration by Clinton?
17 posted on 03/18/2002 5:19:33 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: kattracks
No more baby-killers on SCOTUS, please.
18 posted on 03/18/2002 5:23:13 AM PST by Sloth
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Gonzalez would be a superb choice for a Supreme Court vacancy - young, Hispanic, articulate, telegenic, sensibly conservative, no abortion-related track record.

The RATS would have a difficult time defeating this nomination, and if they do, they will pay a terrible political price with Hispanics in CA, TX, FL, and elsewhere.

19 posted on 03/18/2002 5:24:41 AM PST by mwl1
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no abortion-related track record.

Yes, he has one. And it's pro-abortion.

No to Gonzales, Yes to Estrada!

20 posted on 03/18/2002 5:41:41 AM PST by The Old Hoosier
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