The President can only go so far as to nominate. The Senate approves. Therefore, if this nation will be finished because of the wrong Justices as you state, it's the Senate who will do the finishing.
Posted on 07/02/2005 11:37:18 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, July 2 - Conservative groups confronted President Bush with a groundswell of opposition this weekend against nominating his attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, warning in private meetings and public statements that doing so would splinter conservative support.
At least one prominent Latino evangelical group urged Mr. Bush to name another Hispanic candidate, Emilio M. Garza, a federal appeals judge from Texas.
Within hours after Justice O'Connor's announced her retirement, members of conservative groups around the country convened in different combinations in five national conference calls in which many participants said they shared their concerns about Mr. Gonzales, whose opposition to abortion they regard as suspect. Late this week, a delegation of conservative lawyers led by C. Boyden Gray and former Attorney General Edwin Meese III - and including Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the evangelical American Center for Law and Justice, and Leonard Leo, a top official of the Federalist Society and director of Republican outreach to Catholics - met with the White House chief of staff, Andrew H. Card, Jr., to voice similar views, according to allies who were briefed afterward.
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I agree.. I just want someone who follows the constitution, not their own personal political beliefs. That is why I like Justice Janice Rogers Brown.
Agreed. Republicans better get the Judges right or they may lose support in 2008!
The way things are going with the judiciary, if we don't get better judges there may not even be elections in 2008.
Gonzales did not make the short list, is that correct?
That's the rumor going around, but this early in the game that doesn't mean a whole lot.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if President Bush once again thumbed his nose at his most ardent supporters.
I admit I have only read that which has been posted here on FR. Thus far, I am impressed with Justice Janice Rogers Brown because of her smarts and not because of her gender or shade of skin. I am sure there are others who are equally as smart and even smarter, but they have not had the high public profile that Justice Brown has had up until now.
If President Bush doesn't get these judges right, this nation is finished.
Janice Rogers Brown is Number 1 on my list!
Following the Constitution if very important to me also.
Of course, what you say is true, but that does not mean that they wont try to savage him and Bush at the hearing.
Hey, I just had an idea…why not name Judge Lance Ito to the Supreme Court? He would be a source of entertainment.
Bulls_ _ _! That is exactly the wrong way to go about making appointments. Olson is too old, period. What the dems will do should be irrelevant to the nomination.
She is No. 1 on my list too.
Not only is Olsen too old, he's not pro-life!
The President can only go so far as to nominate. The Senate approves. Therefore, if this nation will be finished because of the wrong Justices as you state, it's the Senate who will do the finishing.
That's true, if president Bush gets the nominations right.
Thus far, his nominations have been fine.
Ted Olson and Robert Bork are both too old.
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