Yep.
Posted on 06/26/2015 6:17:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah you can. But I catch your meaning.
They say Orrin Grant Hatch saved he Clarence Thomas nomination; others say Rick Santorum’s friend Arlen Specter did. But Hatch hasn’t done diddly UT squat since then.
If a president of either party wants to nominate a judge with a particular judicial philosophy, they could pretty easily find federal judges who've been on the bench for ten or more years, and find judges with the judicial philosophies they prefer.
The Dims sure know how to do it. Add to that that the Republicans are too cowardly or too stupid to 'Bork' extreme nominees of the Dims, and we get the kind of court we've had for years.
SCOTUS could have been turned conservative by either Bush, had that been their intent.
Don’t forget that Reagan gave us Kennedy and O’Connor too.
I agree. Few people are right 100% of the time. What I don't get is why some Freepers consider her physically attractive.
Yep.
Can’t stand her and think she is quite the loon ... BUT
even though it was an easy call and to vary a rant “he is who we thought he was!” she, indeed, nailed this one and sometimes she does hit it out of the park.
The politicization of court nominees had not reached the fever pitch during Reagan's terms, at least not until after Bork was rejected.
I'd like to know who advised Reagan about nominees. There is a story about who recommended Kennedy I only caught in part yesterday. Maybe we'll learn more.
Republicans aren't even batting .500 at getting conservatives on the SCOTUS. The Dims seem to be batting 1.000 at putting leftists on. But I don't think either Bush wanted to put two conservatives on the court, and that is why they went with such obscure nominees as Souter and Roberts with not much of a paper trail on the biggest issues.
And maybe hooking up with Bill Maher.
My disgust and contempt for what they have done is beyond measure.
The Court has to at least *try* to interpret the law in light of truth & equality. While I do not approve of “gay” marriage; I cannot dictate what others choose to do. We just have to work around it within the law.
Yeah, she is a little bit skinny.
what i meant is clear if you read Coulter’s piece. Roberts was an empty book when Dubya nominated him. no real paper trail showing how he would rule w.r.t. the Constitution once he was on the SCOTUS. republicans have been burned TOO MANY times by tacking to the middle on their judicial nominees. the democRATS NEVER do that. NEVER. the stupid party always does. and we always rue the day.
the fact that Bork never sat on the SCOTUS but Ginsburg does is a travesty. she’s a 2nd rate legal mind. he was so much more qualified than her. yes, i know Bork was under Reagan, but the congress was full of wishy washy RINOs and that’s why getting Bork through was a problem. i’m tired of the go-along-to-get-along crowd that dominates the stupid party. just really fed up with them all.
I don’t want to see it.
I don’t want to see it.
Her acerbic tongue is the most marvelous speaking device I have ever herd. She ALWAYS knows what she is talking about. When speaking about facts she is always right.
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