Conservative Southerner leads GOP Court nomination fight

[WillParkinson]

Source: Associated Press

Conservative Southerner leads GOP Court nomination fight
By The Associated Press
05.06.2009 9:17am EDT

(Washington) The top Republican in the Senate served notice on President Barack Obama Tuesday that the GOP won’t rubber-stamp his choice to succeed the retiring Justice David Souter.

“The president is free to nominate whomever he likes,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “But picking judges based on his or her perceived sympathy for certain groups or individuals undermines the faith Americans have in our judicial system.”

McConnell’s Republicans are turning to a conservative Southerner as their point man on Obama’s nominee, signaling that they won’t shy away from a protracted fight despite risks of being cast as obstructionist.

Sen. Jeff Sessions’ ascension as the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee comes more than 20 years after the panel rejected him for his own federal judgeship during the Reagan administration over concerns that he was hostile toward civil rights and was racially insensitive.

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“Any nominee must understand that the role of a justice is to be a neutral umpire of the law, calling the balls and strikes fairly while avoiding the temptation to make policy or legislate from the bench based on personal political views,” Sessions said in a statement Tuesday. “We must return to our original understanding that policy-making is reserved to the political branches and that courts serve the limited, but essential, role of disposing of cases and controversies based on a fair construction of the Constitution.”

When it was the Republicans making the rules it was OK, of course.

[Happyhippychick]

1. Keep going 'pukes - fighting against an unknown nominee is some smart politics!

[Botany]

2. Hey Mitch .... you don't have the #s

Stomp your feet and cry Mitch it makes no difference ..... we are at 59 now and 60 by early June (Franken)
and Snow & Collins are both pro choice.

[NewJeffCT]

3. "conservative southerner"

That doesn't narrow it down much these days. Are there many people in the GOP that are not conservative Southerners?

[annabanana]

4. The term VASTLY understates Session's history. . n/t

[NewJeffCT]

7. I know, should be, "conservative southerner with history of bigotry"

or similar. Or, at least, "history of making racially charged remarks"

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. You really didn't narrow it down very much more.

:D

[NewJeffCT]

12. True, good point

I think finding a conservative southern republican without a history of racism would be far harder to find.

[Uben]

5. Oh, he shouldn't do it like Bush did, right?

McConnell is just another republicant piece of shit who says what he's told to say. Insignificant at best.

[Demeter]

6. Karl Rove Claimed He Had the Math, Too

Where is Karl today? Dodging war crimes prosecution?

[NewJeffCT]

9. Karl, and the rest, are daring somebody to prosecute them for war crimes

They've been giving the big middle finger to the rule of law for 9 years now. why stop?

[L0oniX]

10. Yea yea yea ...we know already ...you're gonna say NO like you always do.

[NewJeffCT]

13. Both of Clinton's SCotUS nominees sailed through...

because, he actually had the courtesy to consult with Senators of both parties before actually nominating Ginsberg & Breyer. That was a typical courtesy that Bush conveniently forgot in trying to ram through his nominees for both the SCotUS and the lower federal courts.

[bowens43]

11. You lost. sit down and STFU..... nt