Roberts Set For Supreme Court Nomination

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Mad4stevie

Jason, you know as well as I how often briefs are written from a client's viewpoint on the law and do not necessarily reflect our own personal views. Lawyers are paid to represent their client's viewpoint on the law; I don't think it is fair to pigeonhole him based on some line written in a brief over 10 years ago.

Perhaps true, but he got those jobs by being a staunch conservative, which I think speaks volumes about him

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

that he nominated a white male who appears to be from the upper crust is an appalling move given that he had other choices that would make The Court, already heavy with white males, more accurately reflect the population of America.

Yep. This is an all W move. I at least thought if it wasn't a woman it would be an Hispanic.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

In another decision last June, Roberts went even further than his colleagues in supporting the Bush administration in a case that pitted the government against veterans of the first Gulf War. American soldiers captured and tortured by the Iraqi government during the first Gulf War sued the Iraqi government in U.S. court and won nearly $1 billion in damages at the district court level.

But once Saddam was toppled in 2003, the Bush administration wanted to protect the new Iraqi government from liability and intervened to block the award. Roberts, alone among the circuit judges who ruled with the government, said the federal courts did not even have jurisdiction to consider the victims' claim. An appeal is before the Supreme Court.

This is sickening.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Well, let's hope we see the set of nads the D's purport to have.

There are elected D's with nads ? Other than Dean, Boxer, and Feinstein ?

[sparky]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

that he nominated a white male who appears to be from the upper crust is an appalling move given that he had other choices that would make The Court, already heavy with white males, more accurately reflect the population of America.

At least he looks like what he most likely is. This is more honest than the nomination a black or latin female with the heart Jesse Helms. That is what I was expecting.

[gldstwmn]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...1601049_2.html

He put in his time advising the Bush legal team in Florida during the battle over the 2000 presidential election ...

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by sparky

There are elected D's with nads ? Other than Dean, Boxer, and Feinstein ?

I guess we'll see.

[gldstwmn]

He looks like Frank Burns in MASH.

[gldstwmn]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050719/...sh_court_dc_23

Sources said the timing of an announcement had been moved up in part to deflect attention away from a CIA leak controversy that has engulfed Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove.

"It helps take Rove off the front pages for a week," one Republican strategist said.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

He looks like Frank Burns in MASH.

No lips and reptilian eyes. Looks like a Bushie to me.

[amber]

Originally Posted by sparky

No lips and reptilian eyes. Looks like a Bushie to me.

Thank you. Note also, his resemblance to the creepy knife hands guy from terminator 2 and The Faculty (alien coach).

[amber]

Originally Posted by sparky

There are elected D's with nads ? Other than Dean, Boxer, and Feinstein ?

Feinstein's nads are fake. Sometimes she uses them to give lucrative gov't contracts to her developer husband. Sometimes she also uses them to help her keep her balance while she is straddling the Middle of the Road. Thumbs down.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by amber

Feinstein's nads are fake. Sometimes she uses them to give lucrative gov't contracts to her developer husband. Sometimes she also uses them to help her keep her balance while she is straddling the Middle of the Road. Thumbs down.

I have been following her for decades, and overall I do like her. It seems she has been less ballsy lately because she wants to keep her job. Which is silly, considering her constituency. I still remember her as a lone voice for us homos a loooong time ago. Sparky is loyal, if nothing else.

[amber]

Originally Posted by sparky

I have been following her for decades, and overall I do like her. It seems she has been less ballsy lately because she wants to keep her job. Which is silly, considering her constituency. I still remember her as a lone voice for us homos a loooong time ago. Sparky is loyal, if nothing else.

That's pretty good, but she did some shady stuff as the mayor of SF. I understand your loyalty, but she really is middle of the road, and a consummate politician. Sometimes I'm stoked about her, but sometimes she works for big money. She's no Barbara Boxer, in my head. (who has her flaws as well, but...)

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by sparky

I have been following her for decades, and overall I do like her. It seems she has been less ballsy lately because she wants to keep her job. Which is silly, considering her constituency. I still remember her as a lone voice for us homos a loooong time ago. Sparky is loyal, if nothing else.

I have no problems with her, Boxer, or Dean (esp. Dean) - then again, I am far more of a moderate than most around here in that I think it is okay to:

1. limit abortions with things like parental notification with an escape clause for abused minors

2. own a gun as long as that ownership is heavily regulated

3. go ahead and get it over with and drill in Alaska because we will never move off of fossil fuel until the last drop of oil is taken from the Earth

I also think Roe and its progeny are legally incorrect as the US Const. really does not specifically give The Court the authority to create rights - having said that, I am not complaining too loudly about them mostly illegal or at least unsubstantiated new rights

Oh Well, the confirmation ought to be interesting