Posted on 07/20/2005 7:33:31 AM PDT by Babu
Wow, in that case I missed the multi-volume exploration of Constitutional law that Clarence Thomas published prior to his nomination. </sarcasm>
Sorry, folks, but this column is the flip side of Kennedy and Schumer's press releases—she could have written it four weeks ago and just filled in the blanks with Roberts' name. To say that Roberts' is a judicial enigma whereas Thomas was a known quantity is just shockingly ignorant.
I agree with you!! I am already worn out, and it is not even 24 hours into the process!!!!!!
President Bush nominated DC Circuit Court Judge John Roberts to the US Supreme Court. The Feminist Majority, the National Organization for Women, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the National Abortion Federation all immediately announced their intentions to oppose Roberts for the position.
“I am extremely disappointed that the President did not appoint a centrist woman to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat on the Supreme Court,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority. “We are now going back to tokenism for women on the highest court in the land.”
“Everything we know about Judge Roberts’ record thus far indicates that he will be a solid vote against women’s rights and Roe v. Wade,” Smeal continued. “If he is to be confirmed by senators who support women’s rights, he must say where he stands on Roe and the right to privacy. The burden is on him.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446803/posts
I am sure if he could wish for just one thing, it would be... World Peace.
Could it be that to get to this point inbhis career Roberts has had to be well let's say publically noncomittal...In the leftist dominated legal establishment, an outspoken conservative would have gone nowhere much less graduated from Law School with honors.
OK Ann, so he is not as outspoken as you would like, but then again he is not in the media...that's your cache.
I think that Annie has gotten too big for her tight leather skirt.
Ann is marginalizing herself and not being completely truthful. Scalia was not a household name when appointed. He was as stealth as Souter as far as that goes.
Must be the time of the month or Anne is whipping up her Right Wing Moonbat followers for fun.
"Please, PLEASE think about increasing your carb intake and put some MEAT on dem bones!!!!"
Leave Ann alone. As she gets older she will naturally get fatter. Enjoy the thinness while it lasts.
Justice Scalia thinks Judge Roberts is one of the best attorneys ever to appear before the Supreme Court
Could you please source this comment? Thank you.
...But the nomination is made and we'll now have to see if we're stuck with an activist. If not, great. If so, it could be a very long and damaging 30 year wait to replace him....
Be positive. If he's a closet commie, we end almost immediately. There won't be any thirty year wait.
Ann is voice of common sense. I don't like the 'he's fair-minded' nonsense coming from some quarters, and some reporter last night said Roberts was nicer than Scalia. How can that be? Scalia is perfect. (Perhaps he meant Roberts would smile more.)
I agree. Ann's point about how the Reps handled the filibuster is an excellent illustration of how the Reps do not know how to engage in political warfare.
Bush should have thrown down the gauntlet with the purest Constructionist judge he could find and turned all of the backbiting and political dirty work of the past years into one debate: the values of the majority of Americans and how it is a Constructionist judge that does not undermine them through judicial activism.
If he'd done that, all the other issues would have been silenced and he would have gone a long way to getting America back on the paved road for the 08 Rep candidate that will face the wolf in sheep's clothing better known as Hillary.
Ann's a fool on this. Her legs are thinner and have less meat than her bizarre words!
Ann, honey, you're probably the last real man on the planet, but I SO hope you're wrong!
She looks like a hooker.
What "moonbat followers?" I don't see any here. In fact, everybody is attacking her here for peeing in the lemonade, much like they attacked critics of Gonzales when he became AG.
That's one skinny chick.
Hackett? Souter's middle name is Hackett?
That settles it. From now on, I'm calling him "Buddy".
Let's hope we don't have to eat our words, but if Mark Levin is rejoicing, that's good enough for me.
Shes's Leslie Nielsen in drag. She must be drunk writing this.
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