MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
this is interesting, about the case he was just involved in Hamdan v Rumsfeld
http://www.slate.com/id/2123055/
http://www.slate.com/id/2123055/
there's nothing in the Hamdan opinion that stops him from extending their reach to any other suspected terrorist, American citizens included.
deep said:the distraction about reproductive rights
is serving the administration well.
he is the dream pick for corporate america - chamber of commerce groups, also for the administration’s troubling executive power grab.
these cases will most likely be coming before the court in the years ahead.
All that said,
his confirmation is fait accompli
I predict he will get well over 80 votes to confirm.
The attention should be put back
On Rove and the Administration’s cover–up, obstruction of justice.
This is real, “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
MaxFisher said:Roberts is good news for unborn American women.
Irvine511 said:if they aren't born, how are they women?
August 4, 2005
LA Times
By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. worked behind the scenes for gay rights activists, and his legal expertise helped them persuade the Supreme Court to issue a landmark 1996 ruling protecting people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation.
Then a lawyer specializing in appellate work, the conservative Roberts helped represent the gay rights activists as part of his law firm's pro bono work. He did not write the legal briefs or argue the case before the high court, but he was instrumental in reviewing filings and preparing oral arguments, according to several lawyers intimately involved in the case.
deep on 07/21/2005 said:the distraction about reproductive rights
is serving the administration well.
he is the dream pick for corporate america - chamber of commerce groups, also for the administration’s troubling executive power grab.
these cases will most likely be coming before the court in the years ahead.
All that said,
his confirmation is fait accompli
I predict he will get well over 80 votes to confirm.
The attention should be put back
On Rove and the Administration’s cover–up, obstruction of justice.
This is real, “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
Roberts Unlikely To Face Big Fight
Many Democrats See Battle as Futile
By Mike Allen and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 16, 2005; A01
Democrats have decided that unless there is an unexpected development in the weeks ahead, they will not launch a major fight to block the Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., according to legislators, Senate aides and party strategists.
In a series of interviews in recent days, more than a dozen Democratic senators and aides who are intimately involved in deliberations about strategy said that they see no evidence that most Democratic senators are prepared to expend political capital in what is widely seen as a futile effort to derail the nomination.
Although they expect to subject President Bush's nominee to tough questioning at confirmation hearings next month, members of the minority party said they do not plan to marshal any concerted campaign against Roberts because they have concluded that he is likely to get at least 70 votes -- enough to overrule parliamentary tactics such as a filibuster that could block the nominee.
"No one's planning all-out warfare," said a Senate Democratic aide closely involved in caucus strategy on Roberts. For now, the aide said, Democratic strategy is to make it clear Roberts is subject to fair scrutiny while avoiding a pointless conflagration that could backfire on the party. "We're going to come out of this looking dignified and will show we took the constitutional process seriously," the aide said.
"This was a smart political choice from the White House," said one prominent Democratic lawmaker, who like several others interviewed for this article requested anonymity because they were departing from the Democrats' public position. "I don't think people see a close vote here."