I have a simple question...

[fooj]

How the fuck does a dude with two years of experience as a judge wind up our Supreme Court Chief Justice? I just can't reconcile it. It's absolutely insane.

Peace.

[asthmaticeog]

1. Scalia's GOT to be pissed.

[fooj]

10. No kidding! It's like passing over the "qualified" judges...

(the judges who busted their asses for Shrub, BTW)...

Unreal!!!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. Oh yeah, you know it. n/t

[China_cat]

19. Let's hope he's pissed enough

to vote against the things the repubs want.

[MadisonProgressive]

2. It's called DUBYA

[Dave Reynolds]

3. I have wondered that, myself.

And I have no clue.

[Pam-Moby]

4. Yes but this is only one of the insane

things that they have done. Brownie, backing Delay and so on. This is no big surprise to me.

[malaise]

5. It's mindblowing

rather like appointing an intern to head of a surgery department.
Scalia was absent today. He gets no sympathy for me since he helped to create this mess.

[fooj]

21. Really? I didn't realize he was absent.

LOL!!! Paybacks are a bitch, huh?:rofl:

[OneBlueSky]

6. does he have ANY experience with constitutinal law? . . .

just askin' . . .

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. As far as I know, other than a few writings that demonstrate

utter contempt for the U.S. Constitution...no.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I have a simple question...

How the fuck does an illiterate dude with a cocaine habit, a drinking problem, and minimal political experience (Gov. of Texas being largely ceremonial) wind up our President? I just can't reconcile it. It's absolutely insane.

I think my question answers your question.

[fooj]

12. Ok. Point well taken.

Nothing like a little dose of RW reality to wake you from the fog, huh?

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. I really really hated to do that to you.

Join me in a drink?

[fooj]

23. Make mine a double.

:smoke:

[Catherine Vincent]

9. You would think the dumbass republicans would be asking that question.

[fooj]

15. Exactly. Isn't ANYONE (RW) tired of his perpetual BS yet?

:hi:

[daninthemoon]

11. The senators keep going on about how qualified he is. At least

he wasn't a horse judge, Or was he?

[Craig3410]

35. No....

I think he was a cat show judge.

[nonconformist]

Actual qualifications mean NOTHING to this administration

Roberts is unqualified and arrogantly gave no information on how he would rule for the next 30+ years.

Normal people are aghast, alarmed and shocked.

Kudos to the Democrats that voted against him and with our party platform, like they were elected to do.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. Has ANYTHING that has happened since November 2000 made sense?

[Richard D]

16. Two reasons . . .

1. his age. He'll be chief justice for likely a looooong time.
2. Probably Rove is singing "under my thumb" today.

[cynatnite]

17. What's the precidence for other judges who have held this post?

Did they generally have quite a bit more? I do agree two years seems mighty thin, but my reasons for opposing him have nothing to do with how long he's been a judge.

[fooj]

26. Agreed. However, I'd hardly qualify 2 yrs. as a judge=SC CHIEF Justice

Just another travesty of justice...


Peace.

[pitohui]

18. it ain't who you know it's who you blow

what would you normally assume when a powerful person appoints an obviously unqualified person to a job, it's the gannon press pass all over again would be my guess

[TOOLZ]

25. There are theories he's gay, too, you know...

Bill Maher showed a picture of him with some men at a picnic posing with a dinner platter.

"What straight man poses wih food?"

[fooj]

27. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for the giggle.

"It's who you blow..."

Peace.

[Lena inRI]

28. Touche, pitohui. . .courage to say the REAL truth. . .

additionally, Roberts has obvious physical indication that he has Graves disease. . .protruding eyes. . .OR he did and arrested the disease with radiation of the thyroid gland.

If he is now on hypothyroid maintenance drugs, he'll be a sickly SCCJ in more ways than one.

[Seansky]

22. didn't i read somewhere that in many areas, the chief justice has

little power when it comes to majority vote? Maybe that's how things might be played by Scalia...

[huskerlaw]

24. At least he didn't work for the

Arabian Horse Association. :shrug:

That said, I completely agree. You don't get to be CEO of a company 2 years after you are hired. But then again, he's got more practical experience than Bush did, since the governor of Texas has very little power. I know, not exactly comforting.

[AllegroRondo]

29. Anyone with more time on the bench would have a record

that the Senate could look at to determine how he might treat certain cases coming up. He's a stealth candidate. Bush knows how he will vote, but there's not much of a public record that we can look at and object to.

[Generator]

30. At the risk of stating the obvious

Has it seemed like lots of insane things have been happening for the last five years? Like a president never rightly elected that gets chosen by the supreme court and then gets to install someone in the supreme court that helped him win the presidency? Oh I can think of a shitload of other things too.. but this irony is so bad it's beyond words.

What burns me up is that there are Democratic leaders so stupid as to believe that justice and the good old days are not gone with every bit they sell us out. We are past the looking glass. Me, I'm hoping France will invade and set us free.

[fooj]

31. Now there's an idea!

:toast:

[JuniperLea]

32. I guess we all assume logic is used in W's decisions

even when we see over and over how that could not be further from the truth.

[Broken_Hero]

33. I have no idea...

Maybe he did GWB a few "personal" favors, i dont' know. i was surprised that he would be considered for chief judge, when there were more qualified judges on the supreme court, with a lot more experience than this young fish/punk. I don't know, whe Rhenquist bought the farm, i thought for sure Scalia would get the spot, but once again, the common sense of the WH and GWB has eluded me again....sorry i can't answer the question...

[eggman67]

34. It's slightly more common than not actually

Of 16 previous chief Justices:

5 were elevated from within SCOTUS
11 were appointed directly

Of the 11, six had zero judical experience when appointed:

John Marshall
Roger Taney
Salmon P. Chase
Morrison R. Waite
Melville W. Fuller
Earl Warren

Others:
John Jay - ? yrs NY State Supreme Court
Oliver Ellsworth - ? yrs CT State Superior Court
Willliam Howard Taft - ? yrs OH State Superior Court & Fed Appl Court
Fred M. Vinson - 5 yrs Fed Appl Court
Warren E. Burger ~13 yrs Fed Appl Court

[tx_dem41]

36. How did Earl Warren...one of the greatest...

liberal (as it turned out) CJs, become the CJ with no bench experience?? I wonder if we at DU would complain about that appointment.

Either don't be a hypocrite, or learn your danged history! Or, better yet, how about both!

[ArkDem]

37. Here, here..........!!

dang, or was that hear, hear!!

[texpatriot2004]

38. I heard that the lying lunatic wants to nominate someone who

isn't even a judge to replace O'Connor.

[eggman67]

39. Very common n/t