shawa
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 Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:34 am Post subject: Restore True Fairness to Supreme Court Hearings |
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A message for Senator Chuck (the muck) Schumer.
| Quote: | How to restore true fairness to Supreme Court hearings
By Frank Beckmann / Special to The Detroit News
Friday, July 22, 2005
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As Schumer and his liberal friends prepare for another go at obstructing or smearing a judicial nominee, they may want to reflect on past rules for questioning a presidential choice.
In July 1993, as the Senate Judiciary Committee was considering the nomination of current Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the panel's chairman laid out ground rules to ensure decorum and an honest discussion.
The chairman said the hearings should not be a "dramatic spectacle" or "a trial." As far as asking about how the Clinton nominee would rule on certain cases, the chairman said, "the public is best served by questions that initiate a dialogue with the nominee, not about how she will decide any specific case that may come before her, but about the spirit and the method she will bring to the task of judging. There is a real difference ... between questions that focus on specific results or outcomes, the answers to which would risk compromising a nominee's independence and impartiality, and questions on judicial methods and philosophy. The former can undermine the dispassionate and unprejudiced judgment we expect the nominee to exercise as a justice."
The man who set the ground rules for the Ginsburg hearings was Democratic Sen. Joe Biden.
If those rules were good enough in 1993,..... |
Cont'd at DETROIT NEWS
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” (Thomas Paine, 1776) |
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