Democrats Offer Three Names For O'Connor Vacancy

[JABBS]

From the Washington Post

Democrats offered the names of three Hispanic federal judges and suggested that they could win broad Senate support. The three are Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, who was named a district judge by President George H.W. Bush and elevated to the appeals court by Clinton; Edward Charles Prado of the 5th Circuit, nominated to be a district judge by Reagan and named to the appeals court by President George W. Bush; and U.S. District Judge Ricardo H. Hinojosa of McAllen, Tex., nominated by Reagan.

[zara]

1. Notice they are all hispanic.

my guess is this is "chess". when bush nominates a hispanic, some democrats will oppose, even if privately they are glad (i.e. alberto gonzales). orrin hatch, et. al. will again charge democratic racism versus . So the democrats are guessing that bush will nominate gonzales or some other hispanic, and because of abortion and special interest politics, the dems will need to offer up a fight, and so they are inoculating themselves versus charges of racism. None of those named above is on anyone's short list of who will get the nomination.

[ck4829]

2. Sonia Sotomayor

She is a Moderate and she does not seem to be a one issue fanatic.

The Democrats need to also say "This is OUR choice too".

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. I think that's a wonderful choice.

Approved by both Bush Sr. and Clinton. Female and hispanic. What could be more of a uniting choice?

Of course, Chimpy won't do it.

[djg21]

9. Sotomayer is a non-starter.

She is a relatively "liberal" judge on one of the most "liberal" appellate courts in the Country, and she's from New York -- a BLUE state. Great jurist, but it will never happen!

[JABBS]

14. agreed

The Democrats need to go out and campaign for these three choices as not only deserving, but as ones who would get broad support from Democrats AND Republicans. (And if they have other names to float, now is the time to do so.)

It's imperative that Reid, Leahy, Dean and other party leaders try to hit the Sunday talk show circuit, make themselves available for interviews with the MSM, and keep these names in the news.

Otherwise, by the time September rolls around, the conservative noise machine will not only be spinning for a Bush pick, but also suggest that the Dems were of no help during the process.

[Plausible]

3. Why not nominiate

Hillary Clinton?
They can tell the rightwingnuts that this way she can't get the White House.

[quaway]

4. i think Zara nailed this one

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Actually, that is where she should go

Once there, no longer beholden to getting elected, she could stop being a center Right Republican.

AND, freeper heads will explode the world over.

[wallwriter]

13. I'd be happy to see her on the court, but

I think we could pretty much expect rioting in the streets in all red states and parts of some blue ones...

[4_Legs_Good]

6. Awesome pre-emptive strike!!!

Way to get out in front with some "ethnic" nominees who are moderates and have close ties to Republicans. This way the Repukes cannot play their same old game of saying, "We wonder if they didn't like Thomas because he is an African American". Utter BS, and I don't think anyone falls for it, but they try it every time.

Great work!

david

[chelsea0011]

8. What a group. Let the repukes figure out a way to dis this group

[Zorra]

10. Has the entire federal judiciary been nominated by republicans?

It sure seems that way.

Here is partly how Reagan set the stage for terminating democracy in America:

Why Many Think that Ronald Reagan's Court Appointments May Have Been His Chief Legacy
By David M. O'Brien

The Reagan administration, in the words of Stephen Markman, put "in place what is probably the most thorough and comprehensive system for recruiting and screening federal judicial candidates of any administration ever. This administration has, moreover, attempted to assert the President's prerogatives over judicial selection more consistently than many of its predecessors."

From the outset, it was clear that greater presidential control over judicial selection was necessary if the department was to reverse what it perceived as a trend toward appointing liberal to moderate judges. One of the first steps was the elimination of Carter's nominating commissions for appellate court judges. Moreover, Reagan also requested senators to submit three to five or more names for each district court vacancy in their home states. This gave the administration more flexibility and bargaining power over the nomination of lower federal court judges.
snip---
A White House Judicial Selection Committee was created to decide whom the president should nominate. It met weekly in the White House and included the attorney general; the deputy attorney general; the counselor to the president; and the assistant attorneys general for the Office of Legal Policy, personnel and legislative affairs; as well as other White House advisers, including the chief of staff.
snip----
Notably. in the case of Manion and a few other controversial judicial nominations, President Reagan made personal phone calls to pivotal senators that paid off and underscored his commitment to reforming the federal judiciary through his judicial appointments.

http://hnn.us/articles/10968.html

Reagan was a very, very evil man, a troll servant of the global financial powers, who sold out our country because of his overwhelming need to get his smiling face on TV 24/7.

He was in no wayclever enough to plan, or even to consider, these judicial manipulations on his own. Really shitty people with lots of money and power to gain used Reagan as a figurehead to build the foundation of our current fledgling fascist state that once was the a free democratic USA.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. "Really shitty people with lots of money and power..."

Read as "Bushco."

[Edgewater_Joe]

11. Here's Where We'll See How Much Smack Rove Still Has

Because you can bet your ass he'll be wantin' to assert that he still has the biggest cock in all of DC -- and that may mean giving us a Janice Rogers Brown, a Roy Moore, or my personal favorite darkhorse, one John Ashcroft, for the O'Connor seat. Just to show everyone who's boss.

I'm waitin'!