Posted on 06/23/2005 11:47:36 AM PDT by GOPGuide
A Gonzales appointment on the other hand would leave us with a Justice who will be even more liberal than Sandra Day and thus move the court even further left than it already is(Sandra just voted the right way on property rights).
Why do I suspect something bad is going to happen?...
Gonzales: Spanish for Souter.
That would be great! O'conner is a reliable vote for the liberals.
Gonzales is even more liberal than O'Connor.
I think I need to see his values record.
I don't know why it's so assumed that Gonzalez isn't a conservative... I assumed he was, but I don't know much about him.
Looks like more like Kristol trying to insert himself into something he knows nothing about, and stirring the pot.
Gonzales called Illegal ALiens "law abiding citizens", supports race quotas and will not vote to overturn Roe v Wade.
Bush doesn't want Gonzales to be in the SC if I remember correctly, which is why he made him AG instead. I think it has something to do with Gonzales's political ideas or something; all I know is that Gonzales won't even get the nom.
I think Bush thought Ashcroft would have been a good SC judge. Count more on that nomination than Gonzales's.
If O'Connor doesn't retire then there is a good chance Bush will replace Rehnquist with Gonzales which would be even worse than replacing O'Connor with Alberto Gonzales.
So here we are, after 2 elections worth of pleading based on the ultimate aim of putting conservative, constructionist judges on the Supreme Court, and we're about to get our first nominee... one who thinks that entire sections of the Constitution are completely optional.
Is there any serious thought to a Senator Hatch nomination for SC?
Gonzales also called Illegal ALiens "law abiding citizens".
Hatch is a moron who is moving left everyday. He's also too old.
Who do we write to to get this guy off the list? We need Roe v Wade overturned and Gonzales is the wrong guy for the job.
Not to mention he supports placing restrictions on firearms ownership for law-abiding citizens (Not the illegal kind of "citizen" either).
I thought Gonzalez was a conservative.
We don't want Gonzalez on the Supreme Court! Personally, though, I can't help but think that he would be rejected by the Senate. Even still, let's keep the drums of opposition to his potential nomination beating loud and clear.
It would be odd to have a sort of Bork reversal - rejecting a nominee for not being conservative enough!
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