Senate Votes on the Nine Sitting Supreme Court Justices

[steve2470]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3K1S4WCE.html

How the Senate voted on the nominations of the nine justices on the Supreme Court:

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William H. Rehnquist: Confirmed 68-26 for associate justice, 65-33 for chief justice.

John Paul Stevens: 98-0

Sandra Day O'Connor: 99-0

Antonin Scalia: 98-0

Anthony Kennedy: 97-0

David Souter: 90-9

Clarence Thomas: 52-48

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 96-3

Stephen G. Breyer: 87-9

[spooky3]

1. I'm amazed at the vote for Scalia. What a RW nutjob he is.

[dsc]

2. Two things

One, the vote on Renquist for Chief is the one which mattered in regards to Scalia. The effort at the time was to stop his elevation and thus there would have been no Scalia appointment (he took Renquist's seat).

Two, that was the last nominee not to be judged on ideology. It just wasn't really done back then. Unless a nominee had an ethical or legal problem, he or she was confirmed. Renquist had been alledged, I believe truthfully, to have committed perjury and to have conspired to keep Hispanics from voting in Arizona.

[blm]

3. Exactly right. It wasn't until Bork that ideology even came into play,

because prior to that appontment, the court was never really used as an ideological tool.

Once it became obvious the right was pushing an ideological agenda that catered to an elite minority, the attitudes changed.

[safi0]

4. Who were

The Dems that voted for Thomas?

[tritsofme]

5. I don't recall, but it was quite a few.

IIRC we had 56 seats in that Congress.

[safi0]

6. Yeah I know that.

I know that atleast one member of the Judiciary Comittee voted for him, because had all Dems. voted against him, his nasty ass wouldn't have made it out of comittee

[ISUGRADIA]

7. Here's a list:

Boren (D-OK)
Breaux (D-LA)
DeConcini (D-AZ)
Dixon (D-IL)
Exon (D-NE)
Fowler (D-GA)
Hollings (D-SC)
Johnston (D-LA)
Nunn (D-GA)
Robb (D-VA)
Shelby (D-AL)

[safi0]

8. Funny thing is

The only one of those guys still in the Senate is Shelby, and he's a Republican. So dissapointing that there were 11 Senators who voted for this horny bastard and if only 3 of them had voted the other way this guy wouldn't be here.

[ISUGRADIA]

9. It was sad. At least Dixon paid a price for it and was defeated

in his 1992 primary. And it was no surprise later when Shelby switched parties given this vote and others.