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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With the potential to nominate as many as three or four Supreme Court justices, there is little doubt that one legacy President Bush will have is how he shaped the views of the nation's top judicial panel. When Bush begins nominating new justices to replace the aging members of the court, one of the key battles will revolve around abortion. A recentCBS-New York Times poll found that 64 percent of those polled said they thought Bush would appoint pro-life judges who favor making abortion illegal. They may be right. A survey of the most often discussed...

Senate Democrats were recently caught red-handed plotting to stall President Bush's judicial nominees to influence the outcome of important decisions. Will the Democrats now resort to a threatened filibuster, in hopes that a President Howard Dean will appoint judges more to their liking? The Constitution requires Senate confirmation of presidential judicial appointments, a process intended to focus on qualifications, not party registration. Having scuttled the nomination of Miguel Estrada, they are now setting their sights on California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown. In nominating Justice Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, President Bush...

Six-year-old Janice swept the porch of her grandmother's home in Luverne, Ala. "Whatever you're going to be in life, you be the best," her grandmother, Beulah Allen, admonished. "If you sweep floors, do it so well that when you finish they'll say that you swept floors the best and cleanest they've ever seen! Ten years later, they'll still be talking about what a good job you did." Resting on a bench, Janice contemplated the lively conversations and debates she heard on that porch. In the 1950s, African-American families in Alabama had a great deal to talk about. Jim Crow was...

Going “Mainstream” By the Numbers The Irony of Barbara Boxer’s Attack on Justice Brown [Carol Platt Liebau] 11/17/03    Back when Richard Nixon nominated G. Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court, Senator Roman Hruska responded to attacks on Carswell’s abilities by commenting, “There are millions of mediocre Americans, and they, too, deserve to be represented in the United States Supreme Court!" Watching California’s U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer attack and oppose California’s Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown – who has been nominated by President Bush for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit – calls that old...

by John Gizzi Posted Nov 14, 2003 As Senate Republicans last week conducted a marathon 30 hours of debate to protest and spotlight the Democrats' unprecedented filibuster to block confirmation of appeals court judges, President Bush called three of his nominees into the Oval Office and threw down the gauntlet to the obstructionist Senate Democrats. Flanked by Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown and California Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl, Bush said, "These people deserve an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor, and yet a few senators are playing politics and it's wrong and...

BY JAMES TARANTO Monday, November 10, 2003 1:04 p.m. EST Strange Bedfellows Here's an interesting tidbit about Janice Rogers Brown, who faces a likely Democratic filibuster against her nomination to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It turns out that when Gov. Pete Wilson appointed her to the California Supreme Court in 1996, she faced opposition--from pro-lifers. This is from the May 1996 issue of San Diego NewsNotes, published by the Concerned Citizens for Life (fifth item): http://www.sdnewsnotes.com/ed/notes/0596note.htm Governor Pete Wilson is packing the state supreme court with more pro-abortion judges. Wilson has nominated Ronald...

Columnists' Corner "Janice Brown: Guilty of ‘Judging while Honest’" By John Armor Janice Brown, a Judge on the California Supreme Court, has just been nominated by President Bush for a seat on the US Circuit Court for the D.C. Circuit. This Court is “first among equals” of the federal Circuit Courts, because most cases and appeals concerning the legality of actions by all federal agencies go to this Court before coming to the Supreme Court. The attacks on Ms. Brown have begun. They are vicious, ignorant and racist, and they are led by the New York Times. Does that...

<p>Washington -- Democrats made clear Thursday they intend to block California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown from the nation's highest appellate court, even as she won 10-9 party-line approval of her nomination by the Senate Judiciary Committee.</p> <p>Brown, an outspoken African American conservative and the daughter of an Alabama sharecropper, became the latest lightning rod for opposition to President Bush's conservative court nominees as her home-state senator, Dianne Feinstein, led the united Democratic opposition to the judge's confirmation on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.</p>

  Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003 Sharpton Urges Democrats to Stop Obstructing Justice Brown Hooray for Al Sharpton, for showing he's not just some Jesse Jackson-like puppet reciting lines from the Democrat establishment's script. Sharpton on Wednesday urged Senate Democrats not to filibuster President Bush's nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the nation's second-highest federal court. Brown, who has the nerve to be a conservative black woman who follows the U.S. Constitution in her rulings, is under vicious attack from all the usual intolerant groups of left-wing hatemongers. "I...

...SNIP... That President Bush may view California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown as a future U.S. Supreme Court justice could explain why he nominated her to the D.C. court, 3,000 miles from her San Francisco base. But during her seven years on California's high court, Brown has shown doctrinaire and peculiar views that make her a troubling choice for this appeals court. Judges are supposed to consider disputes with an open mind, weighing facts against the law and precedent. Conscientious judges sometimes find that their decisions conflict with their personal beliefs. However, in opinions and speeches, Brown has articulated...

Judging Janice Rogers Brown By Harold Johnson and Timothy Sandefur FrontPageMagazine.com | November 5, 2003 California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, President Bush's nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is the target of some of the most inflammatory opposition since Clarence Thomas took his seat before the Senate Judiciary Committee more than a decade ago. Don't expect this strafing to end with the committee's vote on Brown (along party lines, most likely), which might happen this week. As things stand now, she could be the latest Bush nominee to face a...

Washington, DC 11-4-03 As the unprecedented filibusters of President Bush’s judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate continue to multiply, Republican Senators struck back hard against the Democrats this morning in a Capitol Hill press conference. The purpose of the event was to rally support for the President’s nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals; a nomination that has garnered yet another filibuster threat from Senate Democrats. Phyllis Berry Myers of the Centre for New Black Leadership (CNBL), who helped to organize today’s effort, said, “This is the first salvo in our...

By: Andy Obermann 21 October 2003 We’ve all known for a long time now that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) are nothing more than extensions of the ultra-liberal, Democratic Party agenda. The primary goal of these entities is to deliver the minority vote to Democratic candidates. Time and time again the NAACP and CBCF have failed to serve the people they so claim to support. Beginning with Clarence Thomas, continuing through Miguel Estrada, and now even with Janice Rogers Brown, these not-for-profit organizations show their political stripes, whenever...

<p>The atmosphere in the hearing room was genteel, the moves as formal as a minuet. But, as Janice Rogers Brown might have said, viewing it was like watching a train wreck in slow motion.</p> <p>The scene played out last week in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering President Bush's nomination of Brown, a California Supreme Court justice from Sacramento, to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The soft-spoken Brown is said to be on Bush's short list for eventual appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>

Did I just hear Thomas Soul say, on Rush's show, that Bush's SC nominee argued against owning a gun in California because it wasn't in the states constitution!?

<p>Meet Janice Rogers Brown, the latest judicial nominee headed for a filibuster. Senate Democrats would have you believe this black seven-year veteran of California's Supreme Court is somehow not qualified to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.</p>

Your Senators Must Hear From You On Justice Janice Rogers Brown! California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown has been nominated by President Bush to serve on the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Her nomination is being opposed by special interest groups like People for the American Way (PFAW) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). These groups published a document called "Loose Cannon" that attacks Judge Brown's record on the California Supreme Court. These groups are falsely charging that Judge Brown is anti-government, anti-civil rights, and an enemy of the poor. In a recent...

The nomination of Janice Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the latest judicial appointment to touch off major opposition. Brown is strikingly libertarian in her writings and decisions, which is one reason she has outraged both liberals and conservatives during her distinguished career. Brown currently serves as associate justice of the California Supreme Court, where she has distinguished herself as a passionate and consistent defender of individual rights. The D.C. Circuit is considered the second most important federal court, and is often a springboard to the Supreme Court. Indeed, three of the...

Good Judge The case for Janice Brown By Clint Bolick The nomination of Janice Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the latest judicial appointment to touch off major opposition. Brown is strikingly libertarian in her writings and decisions, which is one reason she has outraged both liberals and conservatives during her distinguished career. Brown currently serves as associate justice of the California Supreme Court, where she has distinguished herself as a passionate and consistent defender of individual rights. The D.C. Circuit is considered the second most important federal court, and is often...

Sharecropper's daughter threatened with Dem filibuster for being 'arch-conservative' "Of the many unworthy judicial nominees President Bush has put forward, Janice Rogers Brown is among the very worst." That's how the New York Times began its editorial Saturday in a campaign Republicans, libertarians, conservatives and Christians see as increasingly familiar. They say they've seen this script before – first with Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, again with the Clarence Thomas nomination and more recently with federal bench nominee Miguel Estrada. But proponents of the nomination to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals think Senate Democrats may have overplayed their hand...