Posted on 07/14/2005 8:28:15 PM PDT by bitt
WASHINGTON - NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond says the nation's oldest civil rights group will be working to make sure the person who succeeds retiring United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner is not hostile to civil rights.
"There can be no issue of greater or more immediate importance than the upcoming confirmation battle, and we intend to be in the thick of the fight," Bond announced Sunday night at the opening session in Milwaukee. "One vote, for example, upheld affirmative action in higher education - and that vote belonged to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. It is imperative that her replacement exhibit similar independence of mind and character," Bond said.
In filling the first Supreme Court vacancy in 11 years, President Bush must choose between nominating an extremely conservative judge, as he has often done with lower picks, or a candidate likely to win easy Senate confirmation. In the past, Bush has made no secret that Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the two most conservative members of the court, are his ideal justices.
But if he picks a Thomas-like candidate, he is likely to face stiff opposition.
"We will support any nominee who stands for justice and fair play, and oppose any who is hostile to civil rights and civil liberties," Bond said in Milwaukee.
"To date, the successful Bush nominees to the federal district courts are the most conservative of any recent president. On racial discrimination, the president's federal district judges score the lowest of any modern chief executive. The ideas they hold, the rulings they have made and their speeches place them in a dim and gloomy legal netherworld where few Americans wish to dwell."
After five years of excoriating criticism of the administration, including comparing Bush's policies to the "Taliban" and "Snake Oil", Bond showed no..
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Bond has personally had a hand in trying to ruin Missouri. He has cut education funds and taken away health benefits from working people who need it. He is one of the biggest mistakes yet.
"...what is this guy Bond thinking?"
That as long as he can keep african americans thinking that they need the NAACP, he'll have a job?
As if we give a $hit.
He is a loudmouth racist in the vein of jackson and sharpton. One of Gw's finest moments has been ignoring him and the naaclp.
I don't recall Julian bond's name on the ballot last November. Did Gus Hall retire? Who does this assclown think he is?
Speaking of that, when is the IRS going to revoke this organization's tax-free status?
Exactly, were they actually hoping to influence the president's appointment, they would have done well not to burn their bridges to the president. They did and thus have no way to really participate in the selection.
Something along the lines of, "that cracker in the White House best not be thinkin' 'bout nominatin' some uncle tom."
Uh, the article is about Julian Bond, the black Marxist. You seem to be referring to Christopher ''Kit'' Bond, the Missouri senator, true?
Oh, I am sooooooo glad Bond is watching out. We need to help him outtttttt of any position where anyone would pay the least bit of attention to him.
I think you are talking about a different Bond. This is Julian. Are you talking about Christopher?
Good. In that case, I'm sure they'll get right behind Janice Rogers Brown, right?
I don't really need to comment on this, do I?
Exactly, they have NO leverage whatsoever with the WH, which is entirely their fault. Bush reached out to them in 2000, and in return they threw him down the stairs. Ba$tards. So all Bond and Co. can do now is shoot their punk mouths wide open, they have NO say in this process.
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