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Posted on 09/04/2005 12:00:37 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
Hope Ol' Slick n Dishoshit don't die on the same day...hard choice...
I didn't know that you were the "Michele" who composed the text of the main post on this thread. I have known you to be a good, conservative freeper for a long time. That is why I am surprised to find out that you are "Michele" and that you (apparently) disagree with President Bush's desire to appoint only "strict constructionists" to the Court rather than liberal activists who consider the US Constitution to be a "living", ie., meaningless, document.
Nothing personal, but I do hope that you will recondsider your position and join the other 99.99% of us freepers who agree with President Bush on the quality of the judges he wants to appoint.
Again, I know that you are a good freeper and I regret that my first post (unknowingly, about you) was on the harsh side.
Regards,
LH
What's really sad is almost every law school in the country is packed with people like Derschowitz.
I wonder if the Admin Mods are going to suspend the "Sour, bitter, angery, expetives used as adjectives commentary/descriptions replies may cause bannishment" rule for this thread? Nah - we're more creative than DU and they have to be going into a real hissy over there because now GW gets to appoint another judge to the Supremes. Let them all rail and smile as you watch them all come apart.
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Used to own a cougar and couldnt think of any other names. 66 my birth year
None of us wanna get that low.
Dershowitz wouldn't make a decent pimple on his own posterior.
Some people have lost all sense of decorum.
We FReepers always try to show respect for the deaths of even those we despise.
A good and thoughtful post Phil. I hope Alan Dershowitz's words come back to 'bite him'!
wow, I missed that one. Sure wish it was on tape.
Usually on labor day they do a retrospective of the old radio days at WABC???
Alan Jerkowitz will always be remembered for one thing. His role in the legal team that helped set free a cold blooded murderer (O.J. Simpson).
And ugly, too.
So I get my origianl posting pulled by the moderator, what is up with that??
If you think this is bad, wait until they throw feces at W's pick to succeed him.
Dershowitz: Rehnquist Was 'a Republican Thug'
The sad news cannot be called unexpected, but the timing made it a shock: Three days before the opening of Judge John Roberts's confirmation hearings, Chief Justice William Rehnquist died of cancer.
Things may be about to get ugly in Washington. It took only a few hours for things to get ugly in Cambridge, Mass. The news of Rehnquist's death crossed the Associated Press wires last night at 11:06 EDT. At 1:50 a.m. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, gave a jaw-dropping telephone interview to Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes. We've transcribed it; here it is in its entirety:
Colmes: This is a Fox News alert. Earlier tonight in suburban Virginia, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist passed away of thyroid cancer at his suburban Virginia home surrounded by his three children and his family. And joining us now to talk about it, famed attorney Alan Dershowitz. Mr. Dershowitz, thank you so much for being with us.
Dershowitz: Well, thank you.
Colmes: And how will this change the court, and what will William Rehnquist's legacy be?
Dershowitz: Well, William Rehnquist was one of the most judicially active judges. He was a judicial activist in the--in every sense of that term. He struck down more federal statutes than almost any other sitting judge. He intervened often in cases where there was an adequate state ground. You know, you hear so much about judicial conservative, judicial activist. He was a judicial activist by any statistical count. By any measure, he was more active than most of the so-called liberal justices. A striking example--
Colmes: But would it be fair to say that a conservative might call him an acti--or a liberal might call him an activist and a conservative who might tend to agree with him would call him a constitutionalist?
Dershowitz: No. I think you'd have to call him an activist, whether you are conservative or liberal. That is, he struck down congressionally enacted statutes because he didn't think that they comported with federalism. Take the most striking example. He had written for 30 years that the equal protection clause only applies in racial matters--it doesn't apply to aliens, it doesn't apply to age, it doesn't apply even to women; it only applies to race, that the 14th Amendment was written--the equal protection clause was written to protect blacks. Then comes along Bush v. Gore, and he joins the decision striking down the Florida count on the ground that it denied equal protection for a chad to be counted differently in one district than another--something that totally violated everything he had written for the previous 25 years. He was a Republican justice--
Colmes: But would you compare the--
Dershowitz: --and his vote could always be counted on by the Republicans.
Colmes: Is there a precedent for what will be known as the Rehnquist court? How would you characterize that court, and are there precedents historically for that? The Warren court was called activist a couple of decades earlier.
Dershowitz: He was much more activist. And I think the Rehnquist court was never the Rehnquist court. He moved more toward the center as he became chief justice and as he had Scalia and Thomas on his right flank and of course most of the rest of the court in the center or on his left flank. It--the decisions of Justice Rehnquist are not taught in law schools as great decisions. He'll be remembered primarily for his votes rather than for the content or quality of his decisions. And it's consistent throughout his life. He started his career by being a kind of Republican thug who pushed and shoved to keep African-American and Hispanic voters from voting.
Sean Hannity: All right--
Dershowitz: He had a restrictive covenant in his own lease which precluded the sale to Jews.
Hannity: Let me go, uh--
Dershowitz: There were so many things in his background that were extremely right-wing.
At this point, Hannity cut Dershowitz off and went to another guest. At the end of the hour, Hannity pointedly omitted Dershowitz when he thanked the guests who'd appeared to comment on Rehnquist's death.
I guess Al can kiss his chance to be appointed by Bush goodbye?Bwahahahahaha. As Bugs Bunny used to say "What a maroon!"
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