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Before voting on Roberts, insist on second nominee
Houston Chronicle ^ | September 8, 2005 | JAMES E. COLEMAN JR. and ERWIN CHEMERINSKY

Posted on 09/08/2005 1:52:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The key question is whether the president will attempt to replace the moderate mainstream represented by Justice O'Connor with a right-wing nominee such as Justice Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas, who interpret the Constitution in a way that will produce decisions that are fundamentally inconsistent with how the public views the role of its government, both in our private lives and as trustee of our general welfare and national values.

What a load of bull hockey. These guys think they speak for the public. Last time I looked the President and the Senate were elected officials not two law professors at Duke who couldn't get elected dogcatchers in Durham.

The Democrats are making it up as they go along because they know the public will be turning them into a minority party for as far as the eye can see.

21 posted on 09/08/2005 3:11:52 AM PDT by Roy Tucker
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
insist on second nominee

OK, Janice Rogers Brown.

Happy now?

22 posted on 09/08/2005 3:12:41 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God)
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To: RWR8189
Do you think Chuck Schumer subscribes to Federalist No. 66?
23 posted on 09/08/2005 3:13:30 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bumping for after work.......


24 posted on 09/08/2005 3:20:45 AM PDT by Jackknife ( "I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'." —Will Rogers)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

From the land of Sheila Jackarse-Lee.


25 posted on 09/08/2005 3:24:47 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: xsmommy

There is a growing pile of materials, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era documents dribbling out of the White House, that indicates he has strongly held and far-right views on major fronts—abortion, religion, and executive power. There's ammunition for principled opposition to be mined here. But (as the statement cited in my post above testifies) Roberts lacks is a clear judicial philosophy. As a result, proponents of judicial restraint — an approach to the law that's become as fashionable among liberals as conservatives — are eager to embrace him as one of their own. Leftist advocates of restraint celebrate justices who don't reach out beyond the facts of a case to decide more than they need to and who respect existing Supreme Court precedent. Roberts' judicial conservatism will stay on this line. Which is very different from that judicial philosophy, willing to jettison past anti-costitutional decisions(Thomas and Scalia).


26 posted on 09/08/2005 3:26:18 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: Armigerous

This sort of little girl happy crap is the reason I no longer spend good money to buy the Houston Chronicle.

Nice term, but disgusting picture. :)


27 posted on 09/08/2005 3:28:50 AM PDT by moog
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To: alessandrofiaschi

Aren't there some conservative groups opposing Roberts' nominations? It seems like I saw something on it.


28 posted on 09/08/2005 3:31:20 AM PDT by moog
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To: Roy Tucker

What a load of bull hockey.

I think they use those buffalo chips or maybe cowpies as pucks.


29 posted on 09/08/2005 3:33:14 AM PDT by moog
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To: moog

No, the right question is simply that on my tagline. Even if Republican Senators will easily vote for him, I hope he will get a clear line of action in Court. But I'm afraid of the "precedents" (Kenney and Souter).


30 posted on 09/08/2005 3:34:34 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: alessandrofiaschi

Hon. Kennedy, not Kenney. Sorry.


31 posted on 09/08/2005 3:35:11 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

somebody tell the libs they have to win elections for them to implement this strategy
there will be a nuclear test on the senate floor in t minus ten, nine eight seconds and counting
oh how i hope that W elects judge brown if not ill settle for judge lutig


32 posted on 09/08/2005 3:35:44 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

We then refuse to name our second nominee until they provide their planned votes for all possible nominees.

This is idiocy.


33 posted on 09/08/2005 3:36:15 AM PDT by SampleMan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
reaffirmed that not even the president is above the law

Only Republican Presidents have to obey the laws. Not Democrats, and especially not Xlinton.

34 posted on 09/08/2005 3:40:25 AM PDT by Hardastarboard
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To: SampleMan
Janice Rogers Brown
35 posted on 09/08/2005 3:40:43 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Democrats are not Democrats, they are Socialists. Their goal is to destroy the US Constitution in anyway they can, even piece by piece. These pieces are then referred to and pointed to as Precedent! Like Roe v Wade is unconstitutional, but the Socialist believe that this is a right given to women by the STATE, and it is not given to them by GOD! -- Which is as the US Constitution states. So they are trying to implement their Socialist Constitutional Law.

The same for the Chief and Associate Justices. They are not interested in following the US Constitution, if they get their way, then the US Constitution has been over run, and this action is now PRECEDENT!


36 posted on 09/08/2005 3:42:55 AM PDT by 26lemoncharlie ('Cuntas haereses tu sola interemisti in universo mundo!')
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To: RedEyeJack

Probably not.

Didn't you know those guys were a bunch conservative extremists bent on destroying the Constitution?


37 posted on 09/08/2005 3:50:14 AM PDT by RWR8189 ( Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: Armigerous

I haven't paid to read the Houston Chronicle for about 10 years.


38 posted on 09/08/2005 3:50:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I havent paid for one since the Houston Post folded. God,how I miss Lynn Ashby's column


39 posted on 09/08/2005 3:53:41 AM PDT by Armigerous ( Non permitte illegitimi te carborundum- "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
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To: 26lemoncharlie
The Democrats are not Democrats, they are Socialists. Their goal is to destroy the US Constitution in anyway they can, even piece by piece. ....

Exactly! The environmentalists/socialists' aim is just that.

***....For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal-"social justice"-is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. "Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.

Even though they are too prudent and self-protective to name this future anymore, the post-Communist left still passionately believes it possible. But it is a world that has never existed and never will. Moreover, as the gulags and graveyards of the last century attest, to attempt the impossible is to invite the catastrophic in the world we know.

But the fall of Communism taught the progressives who were its supporters very little. Above all, it failed to teach them the connection between their utopian ideals and the destructive consequences that flowed from them. The fall of Communism has had a cautionary impact only on the overt agendas of the political left. The arrogance that drives them has hardly diminished. The left is like a millenarian sect that erroneously predicted the end of the world, and now must regroup to revitalize its faith. ...*** Source

40 posted on 09/08/2005 3:53:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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