Posted on 09/10/2005 12:14:19 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
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Nope, new to me. I am just sick of both parties now playing the racial spoils game.
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I can understand your frustrations. But whether we like it or not, Politics is often involved in SCOTUS nominations.
I believe that John Roberts was promoted to Chief Justice as a matter of nomination for Bush to kill two birds with one stone ( i.e., if they are going to grill this guy, might as well let them go all the ways since Roberts will get in anyway. Scalia or Thomas would have been the logical Chief Justice choice, but why a newbee ? Answer -- as a matter of neutralizationn. In other words -- TO BE PRAGMATIC ).
Selecting a WELL-QUALIFIED CONSERVATIVE WHO AT THE SAME TIME IS A MINORITY is also a pragmatic approach. It might help avoid an ugly war, neutralizes the charge that the GOP is a "white only" party ( as Howard Dean likes to charge), and well -- we still get a conservative, brillant jurist in court.
FYI, When Viet Dinh was nominated to the Justice Department, his confirmation was ALMOST unanimous except for the dissenting vote of sHrillary. She was very indictive because Dinh worked to prosecute the Whitewater fraud.
Why? I'm sure you're not suggesting that the women who have been appointed so far have been great choices!
That's a valid question. I'd rather play neither, but we are replacing a woman. I think it's reasonable for people to desire to replace her with another. Should it be a slam dunk female appointment? I don't think it needs to be. Realizing that a request is reasonable, is not the same as thinking the request should be honored no matter what.
"I'd rather play neither"
Me too, but probably won't happen in my children's lifetime.
Is he Pro-Life?
Reading his background, we know Might Mouse would vote against him.
But I like the idea of a 37 year old Justice. :-)
Race doesn't mean a lot to me. If anything about his background other than qualifications interests me it is that he is from South Vietnam and I'd love to shove that up the noses of the commie loving Dems.
That and his age. I'll admit I'm biased toward youth for the courts. :-D
Good point, but then something like 65 to 70% of women voted for Clinton. I'm certainly not going to push for the revocation of female voting rights.
I would suspect Bush would appoint a sound person to the position be it male or female.
Thanks for the comments leadpenny.
I'd be willing to stop voting, if it would guarantee that Clinton-schmoozers didn't vote, either!
One hopes for the best from President Bush's appointees, certainly, and there are good choices who are female.
Gotta admit, that South Vietnam aspect appealed to me as well. While I don't necessarily disagree with some youth on the court, if you make a bad appointment, you could be looking at a number of decades befor a vacancy in that position opened up.
Can't argue with any of that. Thanks for the additional comments.
Any time!
Well, I always assumed so, but of course I should not assume!
I'll have to check it out.
I remember watching him on Cspan defending the patriot act. Dude is quick
If Bush managed to put a 37-year-old conservative justice on the Court, he might cause a number of liberal pundits to have strokes. The first four U.S. Presidents selected justices who were under 40 when they joined the court: James Iredell (Washington), Bushrod Washington (Adams), William Johnson (Jefferson), and Joseph Story (Madison). Of course, that was back in the days when the court was supposed to interpret the law, not make it.
He was a commentator on Imus (when Imus was watchable/listenable) during Lewinsky/Impeachment and the Florida vote count and I made the comment on a thread many years ago that I thought Viet Dinh would make a great choice for the Supreme Court.
Okay, here goes: pick this fine young blokie because he is as good as they get, and he is the youngest of them all! How's that?
What's a blokie?
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