Perhaps Bush will name
Patton to the Court. He'd serve
posthumously, sure . . .
Posted on 07/06/2005 7:29:08 AM PDT by 26lemoncharlie
Activist says Ten Commandments judge best choice Bush could make
A conservative activist is urging President Bush to nominate Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore to fill the vacancy left by the retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, gained notoriety for defying an order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state's judicial building. He was removed from office due to his insistence on "acknowledging God" in the public square "President Bush should nominate former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore to replace Sandra Day O'Connor in the U.S. Supreme Court," Howard Phillips, chairman of The Conservative Caucus said in a statement.
"Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment by Ronald Reagan was a foreseeable disaster. As I pointed out in 1981, Mrs. O'Connor was a pro-abortion member of the Arizona State Senate and a liberal judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals. She was chosen because of her gender and a desire to attract to the GOP the support of feminists."
Continued Phillips: "Judge Roy Moore also has a track record. He is a rock-solid defender of the right to acknowledge God, a foe of sodomy and abortion, and a critic of the 'legal positivism' embraced by David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Steven Breyer."
There is no indication Bush would consider nominating Moore. The president appointed former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, who targeted Moore in the Ten Commandments case, to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Many conservative activists criticized Bush's pick of Pryor after he led the fight to oust Judge Moore.
Said Phillips: "Roy Moore is the best choice that President Bush could make."
Not gonna happen
I love Howard Phillips. But I don't think anyone pretends, Howard included, that this is serious.
I agree, no way no how! Although i like and respect Judge Moore, it will never happen.
Correct.
O'Conners replacement will be a female.
Of course if we can get more R's in the Senate, maybe later.
I live in Alabama. NO WAY should this SHYSTER be appointed to the Supreme Court. I wish he would keep his mouth shut and just GO FAR FAR AWAY!
Not gonna happen, but boy can you see the contortions the left would have over that one, LOL.
I don't know though, maybe it would be a good idea. Nominate Roy Moore and anyone else would seem like a very 'moderate' choice, lol.
The ONLY way this would happen IMNSHO, is if Bush feels he needs a sacrificial lamb for the Dummies to rally against.
Perhaps Bush will name
Patton to the Court. He'd serve
posthumously, sure . . .
I agree. I do have some doubts about Moore's view of strict constructionism but I think he would be a good balance to the liberal wing.
That being said, Moore would face a confirmation hearing even more virulent than Thomas's. He is so diametrically opposed to the liberal agenda they will find any shill they can to cast dispersions upon him.
If he is nominated, I think it would be as a sacrificial lamb for Gonzales.
Or maybe Mary!
(This could be why she was at
that big-wig dinner . . .)
Right. . . Not ever. . .Bush is not looking to start a civil war. . .
I agree..........Judge Moore has values and ethics, it is questionable if the same could be said for anyone in Washington, including Bush.
He wants a religious justice. I want a constitutional justice.
I don't know much about him but he seems like a right wing activist to me. I really don't want any kind of activist on the Supreme Court. Justices should just do their job and make sure that nobody has their constitutional rights stomped on.
These should be made to guarantee a restoration of the court back to being non-political. And constitutionally-constrained. Clarence Thomas or Scalia should be elevated to Chief by recess appointment as well. We wouldn't even need to do this, but we could really steam the RATS by having the GOP majority caucus meet and send a letter "advising and consenting" to all the appointments...making them permanent!
Although I love Scalia's dissents, Thomas's philosophy of reversing the previous aberrant judicial usurpations is more consistent with what we need to implement. We don't need strict enforcement of the abominations wreaked the last 15-25 years...
Furthermore, There is nothing in the Constitution defining the size and makeup of the Court. Hence, nothing that says we need be constrained to only Nine Supreme Court justices... The Senate should pass its budget and then immediately recess without any further circus allowed the RATs on the Supreme Court or Appellate Court appointments. GWB should immediately move by recess appointment to fill all the vacancies with the youngest and strictest conservative judicial candidates. And then he should go a step further... PACK THE COURT with SIX EXTRA JUDGES OVER THE NINE. Let's BORK the liberals by getting the LAST WORD in the Supreme Court. By following through and using FDR's own tactics against the Liberals, the GOP will no longer be considered too weak to govern, too wishy-washy and lacking in self-confidence or courage.
I am willing to bet that Stevens, and Souter and Kennedy would step down once it was apparent after a year of testing the new justices integrity...that their liberalism was going to be consistently over-ruled by a 10-5 supermajority. Then GWB could pick another 3 justices!!!
Gimme a break. It'll never happen.
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