Posted on 07/03/2005 10:52:40 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Sen. Joe Biden said Sunday that if President Bush nominates recently confirmed Circuit Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats will launch a filibuster.
"If [Bush] sent up Edith Jones, I could assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight - and she would probably be filibustered," Biden told CBS's "Face the Nation."
In the next breath Biden corrected himself, saying, "I misspoke, I misspoke. Janice Rogers Brown is what I meant to say."
Asked whether that would break the Senate's much heralded compromise last month not to filibuster judicial appointments except under "extraordinary circumstances," Biden explained:
"[The Supreme Court] is a totally different ball game . . . A circuit court judge is bound by stare decisis. They don't get to make new law. They have to abide by [legal precedent]."
Asked if O'Connor's retirement was more likely to provoke a filibuster than would have been the case had the more conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist retired, Biden responded: "Probably."
Bring it.
Nuke 'em.
as opposed to Supreme Court justices who DO get to "make new law"? Kinda shows his mindset doesn't it?
I'm actually glad they are listing the ones they would fillibuster. someone should run down the list with Biden - Luttig, Garza, Alito, Brown, Owens - let them show their hand early.
Luttig is clearly the best choice - we could put Brown up there, let them fillibuser and smear her, play the race card, withdraw her name, then put Luttig up there.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! How nice of Senator Biden to help the President decide who to nominate.
Hey, what happened to that agreement led by Sen. McCain?
So the SC makes law, eh?
They're not supposed to.
I think all those hair plugs Biden got have destroyed whatever brain matter he had left.
Good thought. I say bring it on now, so we know who to go after in 06.
That agreement wasn't worth the film it was shown on.
complete confession.
There you go Biden. How you like them apples?
Fixed it.
Just shows the hypocracy of the left, if she was so bad that they have to filibuster her, why did they make the deal to grant her a floor vote? They would have stuck to their guns and denied her confirmation vote if the fight were a real, idealogical fight. It's her conservatism that's their problem not her ability to adjudicate.
Bring it.
Luttig would get my vote. However, he is a white Christian male of European descent. He will never get the nomination.
If the President wants to nominate the first Hispanic, I don't think it will be Gonzoles but rather Garza. He's a Marine to boot.
All this said, the fact that Biden has shown his cards to expert poker playing President, I'd wager that Janice Rogers Brown has now moved up considerably on the short list.
Good ... nothing better could happen than to expose the RATs with Justice Brown. Take the fact that they just confirmed her with Brown's position on property taking and they will have little of substance to claim for their actions. This might be better than the nuclear option ... let's call it the J-BAM option!
I don't think using the "nuclear option" against the Dems is necessarily all that good of an idea, unless, of course, you're talking about using real nukes.
I guess that means we can nominate Edith Jones, though, right?
[The Supreme Court] is a totally different ball game . . . A circuit court judge is bound by stare decisis. They don't get to make new law. They have to abide by [legal precedent].
This is quite a statement from Biden. Someone in the MSM should really jump on it. Maybe Bill O'Reilly?
"They don't get to make new law. They have to abide by [legal precedent]."
Neither does a supreme court justice!!!!
Duh.
What the heck is the damned fascination with BORK?? Bork is NOT any kind of reliable conservative. Read his views on the Second Amendment and find out how much of a RINO he is.
And there we have it. The entire Democratic mindset in a nutshell. They think Supreme Court justices are there to MAKE LAWS!!! Biden slipped up and just showed what a jackass he and his party is.
double "ahem"
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
You can't believe ANYTHING the Dems agree to. I just hope we can control the debate and throw it right back in their faces.
Biden just admitted on national TV that he willfully violates the required Article VI oath he has taken to support the Constitution - the Constitution that gives Article I Section 1 exclusive authority to create legislation to the legislative branch, not the judicial branch.
What more proof that they are racist
I don't get the fascination either. Bork is also far too old. If Bush is going to have a recess apointment for Brown, it should be Brown!
That would work. And we have the happy choice of either "nuking" the Rats', or letting them go into yet another mid-term election as obstructionists. Think about. Even if we don't nuke, it won't bother conservatives a bit if the SCOTUS is semi-paralyzed for a session with 4-4 non-decisions, but the swing-voters are apt to consider it a crisis (brought about by Dem obstructionism) and so are the Dems (either demoralizing their base, or driving it to demand further damaging and ineffective extremist posturing from Rats in congress).
Contrary to some pubbies, I think Frist has handled this just fine, and we got 'em right where we want 'em. Granted the Rats will do damage, but they'll do that anyway. The key is make the cost as high as possible.
It is beyond me how anyone could possibly take Joe Biden seriously. He and Ted Kennedy should be selling used cars somewhere. Instead, they're in the United States Senate. It's a head shaker.
NO TEST DRIVES!!!!
With that casual remark --- Biden (the dumb) revealed the Democrat's concept of a Supreme Court Judge....
His comment reveals that he and most Leftist Lunatics - see the Supreme Court as their ONLY remaining ability to "make new laws" --- because they no longer control the Legislature...
The Leftist bastards want activist leftists on the SCOTUS to MAKE law, not interprete the Constitution...
Think about it folks..... This dumb ass is a SENATOR!!!!!
If that doesn't scare the hell out of you, you don't understand the problem..
Semper Fi
I believe they would even filibuster a liberal, just because he or she was nominated by President Bush
Really tipped his hand there. All this talk by the Dems over how another 'moderate' needs to be nominated to replace SDO implicitly acknowledges that the court is politicized, perhaps irrevocably.
It won't be 4/4, however, because O'Connor won't leave until a replacement. Still....hardly a problem.
Want to see Fuzzhead and the DimRats go 'nukular' beserk? (more than usual, that is?)
Appoint ex-Judge Roy Moore! Let the sparks fly and bring on the mushroom clouds!
Ten Commandments for every courthouse/schoolhouse wall.
I don't think they would filibuster Gonzales. The Democrats would let him through to show they are "reasonable" and then filibuster the next candidate.
This would be a great way to expose them for the rascists that they are. How will they be able to Filibuster her for months on end and then go back to pandering for black votes? Her nomination would be win win EVEN if she didn't get confirmed.
Oh it does scare the hell out of me! Biden along with Dodd and Kennedy and Up-Chuck, everytime I think about one hundred senators in a nation of three hundred million and this is what we get? Damn the New Jersey Compromise!!!!
I agree, bring it on Dims. "Edith" Jones, you can make this stuff up or at least Biden can't. I wonder whose mistake he copied?
Fine, but no more of these "virtual filibusters". Make the rats do the real thing. Make them shut down the senate by talking non-stop. Make every single one of them stay on the senate floor. Bring in the cots and the sleeping bags.
I'm sick and tired of the dems waving a finger and saying "oh, we'll filibuster that" and the republicans giving up without the dems having to put any effort into it at all.
You jackasses want to filibuster? DO IT!
Different ethnicities so I guess it is all those conservative woman look alike to Biden?
Yep...I'm sure the President is going to listen to Biden. My experience has been that President Bush makes up his own mind.
What will folks here do it Dubya nominates Gonzales?
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