Posted on 04/08/2006 2:25:02 PM PDT by skandalon
WILLIAMSBURG - Sandra Day O'Connor said yesterday that she was sad that a woman was not chosen to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat opened by her retirement.
"I was disappointed to see the women on the Supreme Court drop by 50 percent," O'Connor told an audience of more than 700 students at the College of William and Mary.
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I agree. Man or Woman doesn't matter, the judge that fills the chair does.
I am just plain glad she is no longer on the court. We don't need people such as she who do not use the constitution as a guideline; only as a stepping stone for their own personal agendas. That we sure don't need.
Bush tried his best to give her her wish.
Sandra,
You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass
Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin' and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it
Hey Sandy, how would your speech have changed if Janice Rogers Brown had been confirmed to take your place?
In her favor, she sided with the 5-4 majority that agreed that Dubya won the 2000 election. (I think the issue was whether the Florida legislature or left wing Fla state supremes had jurisdiction over the certification, and the leg clearly had it.)
With this vote, and considering what happened in 2001, she had a positive impact on the country that I believe counteracts at least some of her many incompetent and left-leaning votes. (I understand, however, that this is a highly debatable point.)
Her legacy? "Undistinguished" comes to mind.
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That's certainly a sexist comment. She must want that quota system for the SCOTUS: the Jew seat, the black seat, the woman's seat, the inevitable Mexican seat, etc. I'm sure in the future someone will get the bright idea for a Muslim seat. I hope I'm dead by then.
Gee, Granny O'Connor, and I'm sad that you didn't retire about two weeks after you were sworn in.
As a woman I am disappointed that she is disappointed. I could care less what the gender of the USSC justice is. I want to know what they think about the Constitution not what chromosomes they are made up of. She needs to move on she is so behind the times. This is the time of post feminism. At least it is for me.
Ms. Brown is a Libertarian, not a Conservative.
A libertarian and a conservative can be the same thing. The ideal of conservatism is not, nor should it be, tied to one party. I know this upsets Republicans (especially the theocratic ones), as they mistakenly believe they carry the conservative flame. Brown is more of a conservative, Justice Thomas exempted of course, than any of the political appointees currently sitting on SCOTUS.
So she would have been happy to see Janice Rodgers Brown
appointed?
Well I would have been.
O'Connor was a disgrace to the court, advocating european law over the US Constitution she was sworn to uphold. Not surprisingly, she now advocates establishing quotas for the USSC based on sexual characteristics. Evidently, she's too dumb to realize the doors she opens with these comments.
Actually, I think the thrust of her complaint concerns something like proportional representation. Following that logic, most of the court should be Christian. And, of course, any ethnic group constituting less than 11% of the population should have no seat on the court since that would unfairly exclude representation of a larger ethnic demographic. This, of course, would mean no Jews on the court -- at least, according to O'Connor's dubious logic.
She's certainly hung up on non-essentials!
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