SEVERAL SENATORS MENTIONED AS POSSIBLE SUPREME COURT NOMINEES

[sabra]

<<SNIP>>
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1994&dept_id=226374&newsid=14680832&PAG=461&rfi=9

SEVERAL SENATORS MENTIONED AS
POSSIBLE SUPREME COURT NOMINEES


ASSOCIATED PRESS June 11, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) - If there is a Supreme Court vacancy this summer, President Bush may look no farther than the Capitol for a member of Congress who can be confirmed quickly. Past presidents have done it, more than two dozen times.


While admittedly long shots, GOP Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas are being talked up by some conservatives as possible nominees for the high court.

Seen as most likely to step down is Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who at 80 is fighting cancer. Retirement also might be attractive option for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, 75, and John Paul Stevens, 85.

Kyl is a stalwart pro-business conservative and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Cornyn is a former Texas Supreme Court justice and state attorney general. Both men have been at the forefront in fighting Democratic filibusters against Bush's federal appeals court nominees.

<</SNIP>>

[minnesotaDFLer]

1. we need more info

voting records and stuff

[renegade000]

2. i would rather not

have a politician as a supreme court justice...regardless of ideological leanings

[NYC Liberal]

3. What about our old "pal" John Ashcroft? nt

[Bozita]

4. Looks like "We, the People" is about to become "We Inc."

May God's most blessed hedge funds have mercy on us.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. How ironic to consider John Cornyn.

This is the guy who said he "could understand" some people taking out their (violent) frustrations on judges.

[buff2]

19. Well,then it will be alright for someone to go after HIM

if he makes it to the supreme court.After all....he approves violence against judges. :eyes:

[usregimechange]

6. Pure Vomit

:puke:

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Cornyn is the idiot who said that violence against judges is justified in

some cases.

Senator Links Violence to 'Political' Decisions
'Unaccountable' Judiciary Raises Ire

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 5, 2005; Page A07

Sen. John Cornyn said yesterday that recent examples of courthouse violence may be linked to public anger over judges who make politically charged decisions without being held accountable.

In a Senate floor speech in which he sharply criticized a recent Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty, Cornyn (R-Tex.) -- a former Texas Supreme Court justice and member of the Judiciary Committee -- said Americans are growing increasingly frustrated by what he describes as activist jurists.

"It causes a lot of people, including me, great distress to see judges use the authority that they have been given to make raw political or ideological decisions," he said. Sometimes, he said, "the Supreme Court has taken on this role as a policymaker rather than an enforcer of political decisions made by elected representatives of the people."

<snip>

more....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26236-2005Apr4.html


If anyone deserves a filibuster, that moron does!!!!!

[Name removed]

8. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Name removed]

23. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Bozita]

9. Is this toon more like Kyl ... or more like Cornyn?

[longship]

10. Be *very* afraid

The name I've heard bumbling around the Net for Chief Justice is a bit scary.

Ted Olson--Intelligent. Highly ideological. Evangelical. Fascistic.
If it's him we have to keep him off the court.

Thinking about him I can still see the face of that mealy-mouthed wife of his on CNN, MS-NBC, and all the other networks smiling while she spewed her dispicable lies. Well, she was on the 757 that crashed into the Pentagon. But remember Ted Olson when he argued for Bush in Bush v. Gore in front of SCOTUS. He is currently solicitor general at Justice and a prime candidate.

[Carolab]

12. Ted Olson is worse than Scalia.

And between Kyl and Cornyn, I can't say which would be worst. They're both equally despicable, I think.

[Name removed]

24. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. Bolton without the 'stache.

[Selteri]

11. Oh god, flee if Cornyn gets it. NT

[liveoaktx]

22. Cornyn is an Ass

[beyurslf]

13. Doesnt matter who it is... HE WILL BE TERRIBLE.

[FourStarDemocrat]

14. A senator as pick is a clever move--who would filibuster it? nt

[Nancy Waterman]

21. Exactly, the Senate is less likely to fight one of their own!!

Typical sneaky Bush to pick a Senator. But losing Rehnquist to a conservative is not as bad as losing O'Connor or Stevens to a conservative. Then we will have real trouble.

[Name removed]

25. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Orangepeel]

15. There won't be a big fight against Renquist's replacement

because he is one of "theirs." If Stevens (seen as a liberal justice) or O'Conner (seen as a moderate) retires, there will be a fight over the replacement because that would "tip the balance" of the court.

[PATRICK]

16. Typical political ploy

but usually they prefer a non name recognition judge. The GOP Senators come on board once several names are actually suggested like this and they have to face they DON'T want one of their own up there but a more circumspect tool. If not me, then no one quells the secret wishes of those with the power to vote.

Of course don't look to the Senate to play hardball with this president who might appoint the Bob Jones legal counsel to Chief Justice out of spite.

[NashVegas]

17. Frist in '06

He stands a far better chance of being appointed to something than winning a national election, methinks.

[splat@14]

18. Despite Conyers voting record in the Senate

I think he may be more dangerous in the Supreme Court.

http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H1840103

[splat@14]

27. I meant CORNYN....not Conyers. Too late edit - sorry.

[msongs]

26. too bad the democrat cowards and appeasers caved on the issue of

nominee filibusters isnt it? the chamberlains of the democrats vs the hitler of the republicans.

must howard dean and john conyers do EVERYTHING?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

PS - the job of the opposition party is to oppose. how can we get a real opposition party in the USA?