And The Next Nominee for SCOTUS Is...

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by rah
I'm sure Kennedy would try to crucify Jesus Christ again if Bush could nominate him.

...and the conservatives would want him to CUT HIS HAIR.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


Yeah, I guess that makes me a communist too, eh sava?

Hubris, Ben. That's a SIN. Pride. Tsk tsk.

Five Hail Marys and a Glory Be for you! Next!

[Ben Kenobi]

yeah being a good person and helping others really sucks doesn't it!

we need a religion where you can exploit everyone and live like a king

[Ben Kenobi]

Hubris, Ben. That's a SIN. Pride. Tsk tsk.

Five Hail Marys and a Glory Be for you! Next!

Depends on whether you consider me more a Christian then a right winger.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Ramo

Regardless are you implying this is simply then partisan for all time wherein perfectly qualified but conservative judges nominees have to go through this process whilst the likes of Ginsberg get a free pass without a single nay vote.

Ginsburg was specifically recommend by the ranking GOP member of Judiary, Hatch (so was Breyer). Ginsburg spent a long time on the Bench, so had very well known views.

Shrub didn't consult with Leahy (or any of the Senate Dems) over Roberts. And Roberts' views were not well known, and he avoided fully answering questions at the Confirmation; even Specter called him on being misleading. Incidentally, Ginsburg had three nays (and Breyer had nine).

I don't see how it's so unusually partisan when a Republican stealth nominee gets confirmed with half of the Democratic votes in the Senate.

And both of Bush's picks were on a list created by Reid and other top Dems as acceptable choices. Neither are "stealth nominees" both were handpicked by the Dems.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And both of Bush's picks were on a list created by Reid and other top Dems as acceptable choices.

Cite?

Yep rumors abounded he was gay and wife and kids were his beard. Fact of the matter was there was some intimation that his kids were adopted to add to the cover story.

From where? National Enquirer?

[Shi Huangdi]

Liberals who are celebrating this may be doing so prematurely. Her ex-campaign manager called her "on the extreme edge of the anti-choice movement". She is a fundamentalist literalist and is active in her fundamentalist church, and a friend of her says she reads the law the same way she reads the bible.

[Mr. Harley]

I think you folks are missing the Bush administration strategy. As usual, IMHO they have again out maneuvered the Democrats. Meir and Roberts are more than likely going to be very pro-business and may even roll back much of the post-1937 interpretations of the Commerce Clause that let the Feds meddle in regulation. Bush et al are not religious fundies, they just need them for their votes. With these appointments he is trying, as best anyone can predict a SCOTUS appointment, to appoint justices he is confident will be pro-business.

[Ben Kenobi]

Yeah, thanks shi. I've been hearing the same things, although she belongs to a 'born again church' and not a fundy one

[Sava]

although she belongs to a 'born again church' and not a fundy one

generally they are one and the same

although catholics and non-born-again protestants can be quite fundy too

[DanS]

After thinking about it some, it seems clear that we cannot have enough information to judge her before her confirmation.

One of the advantages that Bush has is that he does have enough information to judge.

Advantage Bush, save any truly damning revelations.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

From where? National Enquirer?

Daily Kos amongst others. You really need to get out more.

[DinoDoc]

Consider the source.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

And both of Bush's picks were on a list created by Reid and other top Dems as acceptable choices.

Cite?

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/12817098.htm

Senate's top Democrat explains why he praised Miers so quickly

BY JAMES KUHNHENN

Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - When Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid surprised liberals this week by prominently applauding Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court, he was displaying a hint of his disdain for elitists as well as his admiration for a Western lawyer, who like him, pulled herself up by her bootstraps.

Reid, who grew up in a small Nevada mining town and worked his way through law school, alluded in an interview with Knight Ridder to Miers' struggles as a young woman working part time to pay for her education after her father was incapacitated by a stroke.

"She overcame difficult family circumstances to become the managing partner of a successful 400-lawyer Dallas law firm," Reid said.

He contrasted Miers with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the Harvard-educated blue-chip constitutional lawyer whom Reid voted against.

"As bright and brilliant and as good a lawyer as Judge Roberts was, I asked him - he'd never taken a deposition, he'd never picked a jury, never tried a case," Reid said. "He never tried a case. She has. We need people like that who have real-life experiences."

Reid has voiced admiration for Miers since he first met her about six months ago when she paid him a courtesy call upon her appointment as White House counsel. In a conversation with Internet bloggers last week, before Bush nominated Miers, Reid recounted how he urged Bush to consider her for the court.

"I said, `The vice president got here in a very unusual way. He was chosen by you to find a candidate to be your vice president. You liked the person in charge of finding a candidate better than the people he chose.' I said, `I think that rather than looking at the people your lawyer's recommending, pick her.'"

Liberals have tried to link Miers, a longtime Bush loyalist, to their denunciations of Bush for cronyism. Reid himself on Tuesday called for changing "the culture of corruption and cronyism spreading throughout the nation's capital - a culture that led to `Brownie' at FEMA and the failures of Katrina and the Republican scandals we're now reading about," he said, referring to the government's response to Hurricane Katrina under former Federal Emergency Management Agency head Michael Brown.

But, speaking to the bloggers, Reid made one thing clear about Miers: "I will include everybody as a crony, but not her, when I make my case."

For all that, Reid said in the interview that he wasn't committed to vote for Miers' confirmation. He said she must prove her mettle during Judiciary Committee hearings.

While most Democrats are withholding judgment on Miers, Republicans are openly divided over her.

Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas on Tuesday voiced doubts about Miers.

"I have said in the past that I would like a nominee with a proven track record on important issues to all Americans and whose judicial philosophy is well-formed," said Brownback, a Judiciary Committee member. "I am not yet confident that Ms. Miers has a proven track record, and I look forward to having these questions answered."

Brownback, who's weighing a run for the presidency in 2008, was echoing doubts voiced loudly by conservative activists whose support he would need.

But Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a leading conservative and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who's not expected to seek the presidency in 2008, expressed unqualified support for Miers.

"A lot of my fellow conservatives are concerned, but they don't know her as I do," Hatch said. "She's going to basically do what the president thinks she should, and that is be a strict constructionist."

Bush, in a news conference Tuesday, tried to answer critics on the right.

"I'm interested in people that will be strict constructionists," Bush said, describing jurists who don't interpret the Constitution broadly. "Harriet Miers shares that philosophy."

Bush also said he doesn't employ a "litmus test" on abortion when selecting judicial nominees. Pressed on whether he and Miers, who've known each other for more than 10 years, had ever discussed abortion, Bush replied, "Not to my recollection ..."

Ralph Neas, the president of People for the American Way, a liberal lobby, said that staunch conservatives on the Judiciary Committee might decide that, like Democrats, they need to know more about Miers' legal thinking before they can support her. That could lead them to forge an odd alliance with Democrats to demand answers about her judicial philosophy and to seek documents from the White House about her legal work for the president.

Bush indicated that the White House would reject such calls.

"I just can't tell you how important it is for us to guard executive privilege in order for there to be crisp decision-making in the White House," he said.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey Ozzy, I wanted a cite that Roberts and Miers were on a list that was created by Reid and other top Democracts as acceptable choices.

All you linked was Reid saying he thinks Miers was a good choice and he pushed for her. Saying nothing about Reid and top Democrats backing Roberts, does it? Nor does it talk about a list created by top Democrats of acceptable choices.

I have to ask again:

Cite?