The GOP Must Take Charge on Stevens Replacement

It is a good thing the defeatists at this post weren’t around in 1776.

President Obama’s short list includes Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Judge Diane Wood, Judge Merrick Garland, and Governor Jennifer Granholm, who are all on the left.

Ex-Houstonian on short list again for high court

By STEWART M. POWELL and KATIE BRANDENBURG WASHINGTON BUREAU
April 9, 2010, 11:28PM

WASHINGTON — She was the new kid in class at Houston's Westchester High School in the mid-1960s, a brainy teenager from northern New Jersey who quickly made her mark as a distinguished twirler and class valedictorian.
Now Judge Diane Wood, 59, a distinguished graduate of the University of Texas and University of Texas law school on the federal appeals court in Chicago, is on President Barack Obama's short list for a second time to fill a Supreme Court vacancy — this time to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
Wood gets high marks from her professors. ....
Wood arrived at the high court as a clerk a year after Stevens had taken his seat.
Wood subsequently worked for the State Department and the blue-blood Washington, D.C., law firm Covington & Burling before joining the law faculty at the University of Chicago for 14 years, which included stints at the Justice Department.
President Bill Clinton named Wood to the federal bench in 1995 but it was crossing paths with a young constitutional law professor at University of Chicago — Barack Obama — that may help Wood's chances.
Obama interviewed Wood last year before nominating Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill his first high court vacancy. .....
Some conservatives have labeled Wood a judicial liberal and activist, especially on the hot-button issue of abortion. Wood wrote the opinion ruling that racketeering laws could be used against abortion protest groups, a ruling subsequently overturned by the Supreme Court in an 8-1 ruling.
Wood also dissented from her appeals court's conservative majority on banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure critics call partial-birth abortion.
If nominated by Obama, Wood could expect Senate Republicans to go after her “evolutionary” interpretation of the Constitution, a document featuring “enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.”
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Each time they tried to accomplish something they had John {”he is one of us, by none other than Sarah Palin]Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham to derail and stop the effort.

>>>>I wouldn’t trust the gop any farther than I can throw them.

>>>>They will fold on this scotus justice like they fold on everything. The McCain 7 are alive and well and willing to “compromise” on anything, AND they are on record opposing the blocking of justices.<<<<

First of all let me tell you that I am not a fan of John McCain and the only way I voted for him was because 2 of my choices dropped out.

Now did you two ever bother to check how John McCain voted on President George W. Bush's nominations? It might surprise you but he voted Yes to everyone of President Bush's nominees except one which was Richard R. Clifton, of Hawaii, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit

He voted no with everyone, or most of his fellow Republicans to 0bama's nominees: Geithner, David F, Hamilton, Christopher R Hill (Ambassador to Iraq), Elena Kagan, Koh, Thomas E Perez (Assistant Attorney General, Kathleen Sebelius and Sonia Sotomayor. The only two he voted for with the demoCrats are Holder and David Ogden.

Just because he has some friends in the Senate from the other side does not make him a RINO, just as you are not a RINOs when some of your friends are democrats

If I was Senate Minority Leader, ... I would request a meeting with Obama ASAP, and lay it right on the table.

ALL RIGHT DICK HEAD, YOU ARE LOSING BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE THIS NOVEMBER -- YOU KNOW IT AND I KNOW IT !

IF YOU WANT ANOTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CONFIRMED BEFORE NEXT JANUARY, YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY HALT PLANS TO PUSH:
1) CAP AND TRADE
2) ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS,
AND
3) CARD CHECK

IF YOU AGREE TO THOSE THREE CONDITIONS, WE WILL STOP OUR FILIBUSTER ON THE LAST WORKING DAY OF THE SENATE BEFORE THE NEW CONGRESS IS SWORN IN, AND VOTE ON THAT DAY TO CONFIRM YOUR NOMINEE.

IF YOU DON'T AGREE TO THOSE CONDITIONS, THEN WE WILL FILIBUSTER THIS NOMINEE UNTIL THE NEXT CONGRESS IS SWORN IN, AND THEN YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT ANY NOMINEES BEING CONFIRMED FOR ANYTHING DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS OF YOUR TERM , BECAUSE YOU WILL BE TOO BUSY DEFENDING YOURSELF AGAINST IMPEACHMENT ANYWAY!

Did you know that John McCain was one of 31 Republicans who voted no when 0bama nominated Kagan for Solicitor General?
Those Republicans voting yes were Coburn, Collins, Hatch, Lugar, and Snowe.
Republicans not voting were Cochran, Ensign, and Graham

I agree with ALL the naysayers to the last one. The GOP is going to cave in and RUIN any chance of even a takeover in the fall. They are going to capitulate like the French Army and run away like base cowards. They will not drag this out for so much as 30 days. By June, it will already be over and some 40 year old communist god hating homosexual will be on the court.

I bookmarked the article. We'll see when the time comes, also it depends on who he nominates. But if he nominates someone like you think he will and the majority of the Republicans vote no, I want you to admit that you were wrong. I myself will wait and see what will happen

Obama will get any candidate he wants. He has the Senate and the media. The GOP is powerless at this time and Obama will appoint a solid communist to the SCOTUS. The GOP can’t even squeek.