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shawa
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 Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject: Ruth Bader Ginsberg--EXTREME |
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From NRO Bench Memos:
http://www.nationalreview.com/benchmemos/benchmemos.asp
| Quote: | Putting Judicial Nominees in Perspective, Part III
[Edward Whelan 05/20 07:35 AM]
Imagine, if you will, that a Democrat President nominated a judge whose constitutional and policy views were, by any measure, on the extreme left fringes of American society.
Let’s assume, for example, that this nominee had expressed strong sympathy for the position that there is a constitutional right to prostitution as well as a constitutional right to polygamy.
Let’s say, further, that he had attacked the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts as organizations that perpetuate stereotyped sex roles and that he had proposed abolishing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and replacing them with a single androgynous Parent’s Day.
And, to get really absurd, let’s add that he had called for an end to single-sex prisons on the theory that if male prisoners are going to return to a community in which men and women function as equal partners, prison is just the place for them to get prepared to deal with women.
Let’s further posit that this nominee had opined that a manifest imbalance in the racial composition of an employer’s work force justified court-ordered quotas even in the absence of any intentional discrimination on the part of the employer. But then, lo and behold, to make this nominee even more of a parody of an out-of-touch leftist, let’s say it was discovered that while operating his own office for over a decade in a city that was majority-black, this nominee had never had a single black person among his more than 50 hires.
Imagine, in sum, a nominee whose record is indisputably extreme and who could be expected to use his judicial role to impose those views on mainstream America. Surely such a person would never be nominated to an appellate court. Surely no Senate Democrat would support someone with such extreme views. And surely Senate Republicans, rather than deferring to the nominating power of the Democrat President, would pull out all stops—filibuster and everything—to stop such a nominee.
Well, not quite. The hypothetical nominee I have just described is, in every particular except his sex, Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the time she was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993.
President Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg on June 22, 1993. A mere six weeks later, on August 3, 1993, the Senate confirmed her nomination by a 96-3 vote.
(The source for the information in the second through fourth paragraphs is “Report of Columbia Law School Equal Rights Advocacy Project: The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law,” co-authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Feigen Fasteau in September 1974. The information in the fifth paragraph can be found in the transcript of Ginsburg’s confirmation hearing.) |
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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What else would we expect from a former ACLU lawyer? The ACLU isn't exactly noted for it's pro-America stance.
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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It isn't noted for stances supporting any significant moral issues. Anarchy would suit them fine.
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shawa
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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This is the point of the article:
| Quote: | | President Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg on June 22, 1993. A mere six weeks later, on August 3, 1993, the Senate confirmed her nomination by a 96-3 vote. |
Confirmation by a 96-3 vote.
This had to include a lot of Republicans acting on the principal of a
President's right to his appointments.
And yet today the Democrats are refusing to allow a vote on nominees
that can hardly be seen as extreme.
Oh, but of course the Libs see judges who believe in a strict interpretation
of the Constitution as very EXTREME!!
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kate
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| Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | This had to include a lot of Republicans acting on the principal of a President's right to his appointments.
And yet today the Democrats are refusing to allow a vote on nominees that can hardly be seen as extreme. |
shawa, that would be a good message to send to ole Harry
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GM Strong
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The Ultra-leftits last grasp on power is the Judiciary and they are in a panic. If they lose on the appointments and the filibuster, they lose what is left of their influence. They are imploding.
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