PLEDGE SHOCKER - This is why we must unseat Democrats who appoint Lib judges!!!

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[Impeach98]

This is the PERFECT REASON why we must unseat Democrats who appoint liberal judges who advance their liberal activist agenda instead of interpreting the constitution.

Help unseat one!

Dump Democrat Davis Here

And Dump Liberal Judge Appointing Davis Here Too!

[Callahan]

I agree, but I believe the offending judge in this case was a Nixon appointee.

[anniegetyourgun]

I thought it was a 3 judge panel.

[BlessingInDisguise]

NO BIG DEAL.

Just go back to the way the pledge was before 1954 when Eisenhower added the "under god" phrase in 1954.

What's the controversy??

[Impeach98]

9th District Makeup of judges and president who appointed:

CLICK HERE

[TatieBug]

Exactly Right! Have a phone committee to activate but who do we call? Which Judges? Help! Working on DUMPING DAVIS.

[TatieBug]

Thanks for the link...couldn't get through but will keep trying.

[Prodigal Son]

This is why we must unseat Democrats who appoint Lib judges!!!

And also why the dems fight so hard to keep anybody but a liberal being appointed as a judge- they want to keep the "dismantling of America" going at full speed because they've nearly reached the point of no return on the road to totalitarianism via a socialist utopia.

[Positive]

Say - would you know the difference between "active" and "senior," I don't. Are the "seniors" active?

[babyface00]

Here's the ruling:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0 ,2933,56310,00.html

According to it, these were the judges:

Presiding: Edward J. Schwartz (?)

Argued before: Alfred T. Goodwin (Nixon), Steven Reinhardt (Carter), and Ferdinand F. Fernandez (Bush I)

With opinions by: Goodwin, partial dissent by Fernandez

[Impeach98]

Here is the order of their seniority:

Mary M. Schroeder MMS Chief Judge
James R. Browning JRB Senior Circuit Judge
Eugene A. Wright EAW Senior Circuit Judge
Herbert Y. C. Choy HYC Senior Circuit Judge
Alfred T. Goodwin ATG Senior Circuit Judge
J. Clifford Wallace JCW Senior Circuit Judge
Joseph T. Sneed JTS Senior Circuit Judge
Procter Hug, Jr. PRH Senior Circuit Judge
Otto R. Skopil ORS Senior Circuit Judge
Betty Binns Fletcher BBF Senior Circuit Judge
Jerome Farris JF Senior Circuit Judge
Harry Pregerson HP Circuit Judge
Arthur L. Alarcon ALA Senior Circuit Judge
Warren J. Ferguson WJF Senior Circuit Judge
Dorothy W. Nelson DWN Senior Circuit Judge
William C. Canby, Jr. WCC Senior Circuit Judge
Robert Boochever RB Senior Circuit Judge
Stephen Reinhardt SR Circuit Judge
Robert R. Beezer RRB Senior Circuit Judge
Cynthia Holcomb Hall CHH Senior Circuit Judge
Melvin Brunetti MB Senior Circuit Judge
Alex Kozinski AK Circuit Judge
John T. Noonan, Jr. JTN Senior Circuit Judge
David R. Thompson DRT Senior Circuit Judge
Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain DFO Circuit Judge
Edward Leavy EL Senior Circuit Judge
Stephen Trott SST Circuit Judge
Ferdinand F. Fernandez FFF Senior Circuit Judge
Pamela Ann Rymer PAR Circuit Judge
Thomas G. Nelson TGN Circuit Judge
Andrew J. Kleinfeld AJK Circuit Judge
Michael Daly Hawkins MDH Circuit Judge
A. Wallace Tashima AWT Circuit Judge
Sidney R. Thomas SRT Circuit Judge
Barry G. Silverman BGS Circuit Judge
Susan P. Graber SPG Circuit Judge
M. Margaret McKeown MMM Circuit Judge
Kim McLane Wardlaw KMW Circuit Judge
William A. Fletcher WAF Circuit Judge
Raymond C. Fisher RCF Circuit Judge
Ronald M. Gould RMG Circuit Judge
Richard A. Paez RAP Circuit Judge
Marsha S. Berzon MSB Circuit Judge
Richard C. Tallman RCT Circuit Judge
Johnnie B. Rawlinson JBR Circuit Judge

[babyface00]

Oops. Here's the ruling:
http://www.foxnews.com/project s/pdf/062602_pledgeruling.pdf

[lonestar]

In a dissent, Judge Ferdinand Fernandez, said the phrase has no tendency to establish religion or suppress anyone’s ability to exercise the religion of his or her choice, “except in the fevered eye of persons who most fervently would like to drive all tincture of religion out of public life.”

Fernandez is a Bush 1 appointee. Who is the third judge?

[Impeach98]

Click Here for Court Decision

The judges were:
Goodwin
Schwartz
Reinhardt

[Impeach98]

I wish I could edit LOL!

Goodwin
Fernandez
Reinhardt

[Impeach98]

Reinhardt = Carter appointee

[babyface00]

I know its been said here before, but the article in the Constitution that supposedly makes the pledge unconstitutional is:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

Regardless of what the SC says, I think the link from Congress down to the state, and then down to the school board is tenuous, at best.

[elephantlips]

Boy, do you not get the point.

[Impeach98]

I am still shell-shocked :(

[an amused spectator]

Goodwin, Alfred Theodore

Born June 29, 1923, in Bellingham, WA

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, District of Oregon
Nominated by Richard M. Nixon on September 22, 1969, to a seat vacated by John Francis Kilkenny; Confirmed by the Senate on December 10, 1969, and received commission on December 11, 1969. Service terminated on December 17, 1971, due to appointment to another judicial position.

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Nominated by Richard M. Nixon on November 3, 1971, to a seat vacated by John F. Kilkenny; Confirmed by the Senate on November 23, 1971, and received commission on November 30, 1971. Served as chief judge, 1988-1991. Assumed senior status on January 31, 1991.

Education:
University of Oregon, B.A., 1947

University of Oregon Law School, J.D., 1951

Professional Career:
U.S. Army Captain, 1943-1946
U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, JAG Corps, 1960-1969
Private practice, Eugene, Oregon, 1951-1955
Judge, Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, 1955-1960
Judge, Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, 1960-1969

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

Fernandez, Ferdinand Francis

Born May 29, 1937, in Pasadena, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, Central District of California
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on July 19, 1985, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333; Confirmed by the Senate on October 16, 1985, and received commission on October 17, 1985. Service terminated on May 24, 1989, due to appointment to another judicial position.

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Nominated by George Bush on February 28, 1989, to a seat vacated by Warren John Ferguson; Confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 1989, and received commission on May 22, 1989.

Education:
University of Southern California, B.S., 1958

University of Southern California Law School, J.D., 1962

Harvard Law School, LL.M., 1963

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. William M. Byrne, U.S. District Court, Central District, California, 1963-1964
Private practice, Pomona, California, 1964-1980
Judge, San Bernardino County State Superior Court of California, 1980-1985

Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic

Gender: Male

Reinhardt, Stephen Roy

Born March 27, 1931, in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Nominated by Jimmy Carter on November 30, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; Confirmed by the Senate on September 11, 1980, and received commission on September 11, 1980.

Education:
Pomona College, B.A., 1951

Yale Law School, LL.B., 1954

Professional Career:
U.S. Air Force, 1954-1956
Law clerk, Hon. Luther W. Youngdahl, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 1956-1957
Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1957-1980

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male