He could be the next Supreme Court justice

USA TODAY ^ | 3/18/02 | Joan Biskupic

[kattracks]

WASHINGTON

[livius]

Encouraging! I'm glad serious thought is being given to good Supreme Court nominees.

[Psalm 73]

Not that it matters, the Demoncrats would smear Gandhi and Mother Theresa (or thier own mothers, for that matter), if they had to.

[VA Advogado]

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.

[VA Advogado]

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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[blackbag]

[goldstategop]

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.

[goldstategop]

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.

[weikel]

I like Hatch for the most part I also liked it when he dissed the RIAA.

[VA Advogado]

Well he's a better follower (in the minority) than he is a leader (chairman).

[weikel]

Im not familiar with his history can you tell me some example of nonconservative actions?

[VA Advogado]

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

[FairWitness]

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.

[Steve0113]

Liberal justice John Paul Stevens...

That's an oxymoron.

[helmsman]

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.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

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?

[Sloth]

No more baby-killers on SCOTUS, please.

[mwl1]

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.

[The Old Hoosier]

no abortion-related track record.

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

No to Gonzales, Yes to Estrada!