Posted on 11/08/2004 12:07:05 PM PST by pookie18
Today's radio guests include Arlen Specter & John O'Neill!!!!!!!
I thought I heard him call the stalled Bush nominees "firebrands". Did I miss something? If anything, I think this statement alone should sink him.
And I think Hannity was speaking to that when he mentioned that Bork thought it was up to the legislature to specify that about the 14th and that it shouldn't be up to the courts to broaden the interpretation.
Let's be honest. Women didn't even win the right to vote until the 19th in 1920 and the 14th was ratified in 1868. If the 14th truly was meant to apply to women why did they need another amendment to give them the right to vote? Why didn't the equal protection of the 14th apply to women at the time it was passed?
Your point makes no sense. Should Specter vote like a Democrat because Kerry barely carried the state even though Specter just beat his democratic opponent soundly?
BTW, as for your other posts, Thomas's rejection of stare decisis for constitutional law has a long history and has only been recently rejected by the Court (though in a plurality opinion). I believe he is right that the mistakes of 9 unelected judges cannot supersede the written text of the Constitution as the latter is the repository of the will of the people, not the former.
As for Bork believing that the 14th Amdt doesn't apply to women, that is nonsense. The question is the level of scrutiny applied not whether they are covered at all. On this front, Bork has a couple of sound historical and textual arguments and his detractors have some sound textual arguments.
Specter just admitted that conservative nominees like the ones nominated in the first term WILL NOT pass.
I hope Frist is ready to play some hardball and not be bitchslapped for two years by kennedy, schumer and leahy.
There will be no excuses accepted from the Repubs, if they can't govern now within the governmental institutions, then they should step aside and let the conservatives in the party take over.
Lol.
could Frisk kick him off the entire committee in general? we dont need him on Judiciary
"Did Sean ask him if he would be using Scottish or American jurisprudence as his guiding light yet?"
Agree with you there... that's a problem... hopefully, Bush and the senate leadership have and they seem satisfied with his response.
They all do. Specter isn't the only one guilty of this "crime". I see it happen every time Max Baucus (D-MT) is up for re-election. John Thune did the right thing by exposing Tom Daschle for the Liberal he truly is, and look where it got Daschle.
He was referring to the lib senators who we could never get to vote our way... not the nominees.
Most likely that would send him in to orbit and "Jeffordsize" him..key is to park him somewhere that doesnt cause him to lose too much face
"Should Specter vote like a Democrat because Kerry barely carried the state even though Specter just beat his democratic opponent soundly?"
Specter voted his conscience as a representative of PA who voted for Kerry. Who can fault him for that?
He is supposed to represent the people who voted for him. The ones that voted for Kerry probably voted for the Democrat, don't you think?
The people that voted for him should expect what all of us expect. To put up the nominees that the president that not only won the election, but went out of his way to campaign for the guy.
He said no such thing.
Women are covered under the amendment, even in Bork's view. Specter doesn't know what he is talking about (like usual).
What's disputed is the level of scrutiny that the Court employs when confronted with a gender discrimination case. Bork believes that the 14th Amendment was passed to aid freed slaves, not women, and therefore the highest level of scrutiny should be retained only for racial discrimination.
He said no such thing.
Anyone, has John O'Neill been on yet??
Yes and he was great!!!
"Specter doesn't know what he is talking about (like usual)."
Specter is OFTEN wrong in his opinions, but he most certainly knows what he's talking about. The man is a near-genius... Unfortunately, he's close to an evil genius at times... But it's not from being uninformed, just wrong.
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