Apparently Gonzo only ever had 2 jobs since law school

[SoCalDem]

I found this very interesting article from 3 years ago.. We are very lucky he did NOT get appointed to SCOTUS... cannot imagine being stuck with Gonzo-rrific forever..:scared:




http://www.alternet.org/rights/20559/

Gonzales' Record

By Lou Dubose, LA Weekly. Posted November 22, 2004.



In 2000, Texas Supreme Court Justice Alberto Gonzales wrote an opinion supporting a minor's right to abortion without the consent of her parents. The court was defining an untested statute intended to allow pregnant minors to avoid abusive parents and, in some cases, avoid confronting fathers responsible for the pregnancies the kids were trying to terminate. Gonzales did the right thing and joined the six-justice majority defending the young woman's legal right to an abortion. It was a delicate balancing act. He was supporting abortion rights opposed by the Republican Party's Christian base. But he was invoking canonical Republican principle to justify his decision: Judges don't make laws. To underscore that point he attacked a colleague on the all-Republican court for her "unconscionable act of judicial activism" in voting to deny the young woman an abortion. Gonzales even wrote that his pro-abortion position on the court was "personally troubling to me as a parent."

"He's running for the Supreme Court," said one of his staff attorneys. Of course he was running for the Supreme Court. Governor Bush appointed him to fill a vacancy, but he had to run to keep the seat. At the time, Gonzales had spent a half-million dollars to win the Republican primary. (The $500,000 in mostly corporate contributions, the unprecedented primary endorsement of the Texas Republican Party, and TV spots in which Governor Bush endorsed him certainly helped.) But Al was running for the Supreme Court. The big one: John Marshall, Felix Frankfurter, Louis Brandeis, Thurgood Marshall and, these days, William Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, et al.

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[UTUSN]

1. Heck, I'll K&R this!!1 n/t

[rasputin1952]

2. I thought it was Dog Catcher and bush lackey....

:D

[Rick Myers]

3. He's got the legal chops of a seventh grade student!!!

Apologies to all 7th graders.

His NBC interview was one of the most inept performances in televised political history.