Federal Judges - "Fresh Air" - An Interview by Terry Gross W/Ralph Neas!

[coreystone]

This is an EXCELLENT interview by Terry Gross that is a must listen! Please! Take the time! It is approximately 20 some minutes long! The interview quite reasonably depicts the concerns over the process and goals of the Bush Administration and related powers to secure Supreme Court Judges and Federal Judges. I heard it this afternoon at work when my "neocon" co-worker had left for the day. I REALLY strongly recommend it!

Federal Judges in 2005: Rights Concerns

"Fresh Air from WHYY, February 15, 2005 · Ralph Neas is president of People for the American Way http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/ a national social justice organization. He was executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights when he led the successful effort to block the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987."

Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4500032

Just push the "LISTEN" button!! :-)

"Our conversation with Neas is the first of a two-part look at the upcoming battle over judicial nominees. On Wednesday we hear from C. Boyden Gray, founder of the conservative group the Committee for Justice."

[cornermouse]

1. I heard it. It was quite upsetting.

I need to look up the Federalist Society, too. I plan to miss the Boyden Gray interview. I see no reason to listen to him or support him at all.

[coreystone]

2. "The Federalist Society" replaced the "American Bar Association..

as Bush's "vetting tool" of his Federal judges as was cited in the Terry Gross interview with Ralph Neas.

"The Federalist Society" LINK: http://www.fed-soc.org/


Board of Visitors

Hon. Robert H. Bork Co-Chairman
Hon. Orrin Hatch Co-Chairman

Senator Hatch has a tremendous amount of power as the Chair of the "Senate Judiciary Committee"! His association with this group is quite disturbing.

[cornermouse]

3. I know.

The whole story was quite upsetting. 7 of 9 judges are now federalists as opposed to 6 out of 10 in the past. So much of our judicial system.

[coreystone]

4. Ralph Neas had connected Scalia and Bork as the "initiators"..

of "The Federalist Society". * "cornermouse", I will listen to the Boyden Gray interview tomorrow, if it is not to infringe upon my work schedule. I will listen, not to be "uplifted", but, to attempt to understand the enemy, as Patton read Rommel's book. We must be sure to remain steadfast in preventing our heads from being consumed by the depths of the sand.

:-)

[cornermouse]

5. I don't think I can listen to it calmly right. now.

My head's not covered with sand, I just don't want to be upset tomorrow. Every once in a while, you have to take a day off.

[coreystone]

6. Yes! I agree! I didn't not mean to imply YOUR head was ...

covered in sand. I apologize if my post implied anything of the nature. It was only a "bounce off" to bump the importance of the Neas interview, as I felt it to be.

:hi: