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Antonin Scalia Defends Miers
Newsmax ^ | 10/9/5

Posted on 10/09/2005 9:10:09 AM PDT by Crackingham

In an interview set for broadcast on Monday, leading conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia appears to be defending Harriet Miers against critics who say she doesn't have the qualifications to sit on the High Court.

"I think it's a good thing to have people from all sorts of backgrounds [on the Court]," Scalia tells CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, as the debate rages over Miers' lack of judical experience.

Without mentioning the Bush nominee by name, the conservative legal icon said that the High Court needed someone who had never served as a judge to take the place of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

"There is now nobody with that [non judicial] background after the death of the previous chief," Scalia laments to Bartiromo.

"And the reason that's happened, I think, is that the nomination and confirmation process has become so controversial, so politicized that I think a president does not want to give the opposition an easy excuse [to say] 'Well, this person has no judicial experience.'" Scalia concludes: "I don't think that's a good thing. I think the Byron Whites, the Lewis Powells and the Bill Rehnquists have contributed to the court even though they didn't sit on a lower federal court."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antoninscalia; endorsement; harrietmiers; miers; scalia; scotus; supremecourt
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To: BushisTheMan

So if he is so smart according to you, why don't you trust him? hmmmmm

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Trust him for WHAT? He hasn't said anything about her conservative credentials or her judicial philosophy.

Now if he came out and said she has the same judicial philosophy as I do, then he would have said something of substance. This is just general thoughts on judicial nominees.


121 posted on 10/09/2005 10:26:20 AM PDT by jdhljc169
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To: Stellar Dendrite
LOL!!

Though it is comforting to know we are in GOOD company, I dare say on the part of most of us, our decision to oppose Miers' nomination has NOTHING to do with the opinions of pundits or politicians.

122 posted on 10/09/2005 10:26:22 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (A Reagan Conservative and mighty proud of it.)
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To: ThePythonicCow
"Miers is nominated to take the place of Rehnquist, as the judge without prior judicial experience."

Bingo. You worded it perfectly. Thank you. If Scalia was as an effective communicator as you (I say that in all seriousness), I'd have understood his (Scalia's) point right from the get-go.
123 posted on 10/09/2005 10:26:40 AM PDT by jdm
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To: jdhljc169

And if he did come out and say what you think he should have, just what do you think the OLD MEDIA would have done with that. Supreme Court justices do not recommend others. They respond as generally as they can without being accused of making a statement. hello!!!!


124 posted on 10/09/2005 10:29:14 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: jdm

There you go. Now, we can all be happy. :-)


125 posted on 10/09/2005 10:29:21 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: BushisTheMan
>Miers is not of this caliber. Not even close.
And you know this for a fact, how?


Claiming to not know this for a fact is a pretty thin defense to hang your hat on. You should be ashamed. I thought we conservatives demanded higher standards of "proof" than this.
126 posted on 10/09/2005 10:29:36 AM PDT by counterpunch (Save the GOP - withdraw Miers now)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

RuHe said it wasn't the best pick? Really, not what I heard.
Maybe he thinks it's not the best "conservative pick" but that's not the same thing. He himself said he was remaining "neutral".

So if your argument was stupid and I said it was stupid, then it's my fault for not getting your point? joke


127 posted on 10/09/2005 10:31:19 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: Crackingham
I think NewsMax is nuts here.

Scalia was commenting in general about the politicization of the selection and nomination process. Not specifically about Miers.

I'm not sure how this is news since NewsMax is offering little more than a plagiarized version of the Meet The Depressed segment aired today.
128 posted on 10/09/2005 10:31:39 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: Guenevere
why is a financial news babe interviewing Scalia anyway?

Because she is way cuter looking than Wolf Blitzer.

129 posted on 10/09/2005 10:32:50 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: xsmommy
"i feel bad for you, man. you are going to have people banging on your head for this for awhile yet; til everyone reads through the thread and sees your error."

That's fine. Newsmax could have worded their article better. Should have worded it like ThePythonicCow did. That made sense.
130 posted on 10/09/2005 10:33:05 AM PDT by jdm
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To: counterpunch
What I take issue with is her complete lack of scholarship in Constitutional Law

Which candidates without judge experience would you recommend?

131 posted on 10/09/2005 10:33:44 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: jdhljc169
Now if he came out and said she has the same judicial philosophy as I do, then he would have said something of substance

Surely he understands he is helping her cause by speaking out at this time. If he had serious reservations, wouldn't it be better to say "no comment"?

132 posted on 10/09/2005 10:35:11 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: BushisTheMan

"RuHe said it wasn't the best pick? Really, not what I heard.
Maybe he thinks it's not the best "conservative pick" but that's not the same thing"

You just said he was "neutral", but what hes said this week isn't. You said: "its not the same thing" --Translation: "Im moving the goalposts to fit my prior assertion"

Try again.

"So if your argument was stupid and I said it was stupid, then it's my fault for not getting your point? joke"

The only joke here is your lack of logic.

Move along now, pom-poms in hand.


133 posted on 10/09/2005 10:35:44 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: counterpunch

I'm not a "conservative"...never claimed to be. I'm here because I support President Bush.

So don't mock me for your supposed standards. If someone says they KNOW 100% FOR A FACT that Miers is not of this caliber, they have the burden of proof to prove it. Your trying to shame me is just a loser tactic.


134 posted on 10/09/2005 10:36:37 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: BushisTheMan
Maybe he thinks it's not the best "conservative pick" but that's not the same thing. He himself said he was remaining "neutral".

The very fact that he's remaining "neutral" on Miers is proof that he doesn't think she was the best pick.
Neutrality from someone like Limbaugh is a damning indictment of her quality.
Rush would be cheering her if she was the best... or even decent.
135 posted on 10/09/2005 10:36:46 AM PDT by counterpunch (Save the GOP - withdraw Miers now)
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To: TAdams8591
There are many others who are FAR MORE qualified and PROVEN conservatives.

But they aren't nominated, are they?

At any given time, there is ALWAYS somebody MORE qualified for any given job.

I'm sure there is somebody in Pennsyvlania more qualified to be a senator than Arlen Specter, but most of us live in the REAL world and realize you have to deal with who is either in the job or in line for the job.

136 posted on 10/09/2005 10:37:09 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: counterpunch

She's the pick that is going to be approved. Conservative candidates would never be....so your argument is moot.


137 posted on 10/09/2005 10:38:35 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: BushisTheMan
I'm not a "conservative"... I'm just here for the Kool-Aid.
138 posted on 10/09/2005 10:39:12 AM PDT by counterpunch (Save the GOP - withdraw Miers now)
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To: counterpunch

No, he's pushing forward something thats untrue. Anyone who listened to Rush this week knows he is not really neutral on this. He's not NEAR as forceful as some of the other pundits have been in their opposition, so in that sense I guess you could say he's been "neutral" compared to them. LOL


139 posted on 10/09/2005 10:39:27 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: counterpunch
The very fact that he's remaining "neutral" on Miers is proof that he doesn't think she was the best pick.

Now you're just proving to everybody just how dumb and desperate you are.

He is remaing NEUTRAL because that is the way this is handled, unless, of course, you, in your endless pit of wisdom, can provide a link for ANY other Supreme Court justice coming out in SUPPORT of any nominee.

Got one? If not, stop saying stupid stuff like that.

140 posted on 10/09/2005 10:39:28 AM PDT by Howlin
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