Bush says ‘diversity’ key for next top court pick

[sabra]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9491993/

Bush says ‘diversity’ key for next top court pick
President hints he may choose a woman or member of ethnic minority
Supreme Court Fact Finder

WASHINGTON - President Bush hinted on Monday that his next nominee for the Supreme Court would be a woman or a minority, saying that “diversity is one of the strengths of the country.”

The president also expressed optimism that the Senate would confirm John Roberts as chief justice this week — which seems virtually certain.

Bush, asked about his next nominee, said “I will pick a person who can do the job. But I am mindful that diversity is one of the strengths of the country.” The president is under pressure from many quarters — including his wife — to pick a woman or a minority for the seat of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who is retiring.

[halobeam]

1. He's playing "Blues Clues".... anyone know "who" he means?

LOL:rofl:

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[triguy46]

47. JC Watts n/t

[Silverhair]

2. Can you say, "Janice Rogers Brown" or "Gonzales"? NT

[0007]

7. I think there's something to what your saying.

If the Dems don't strap on their balls if this is the case. I'll go green!

[Tesha]

22. Better warm up your Greenware.

The Dems will find some (plausible to them) reason for letting yet-
another Bush appointee slip by.

Tesha

[WCGreen]

11. Gonzales....

It has to be......

Don't cha know they already got a negroe on the bench....

[mainegreen]

3. Diversity Pool for High Court Justices Too Shallow?

From law.com today:


The pool of qualified, conservative minority and female candidates for the federal bench is better than it was a decade ago, say court scholars and former Republican administration officials, but it is much shallower than the pool of conservative white males and the Democratic pool of minority and female candidates.

In fact, when a number of conservative legal scholars and others following or involved in the nomination process were asked to name, either on or off the bench, the conservative female counterpart to the left's constitutional scholar and advocate Kathleen Sullivan, no names leapt to mind.

"There isn't anyone," echoed Bruce Fein of Washington's Fein & Fein, a former Justice Department official in the Reagan administration. "The closest may be Pamela Rhymer, but she is not quite of the same stature in terms of analytical incisiveness."


http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1127466314856

[noahmijo]

4. In other words he's going to pick someone that embarasses

whatever the minority group that person belongs to.

I'm already ashamed to be Latino due to the number of them that voted for Bush and Gonzales :(

I can't tell you how many times in English and Spanish I'd screamed to other Latinos that Bush belongs to the brand of Christianity that HATES them and their Catholicism, but nope Bush suckered them in hook line and sinker with the family values bullshit.

[Benhurst]

15. Ashamed to be Latino? Try walking in this WASP's shoes!

I do claim one Native American ancestor, who lived in 17th Century Virgina. But what the heck, you make the best of what you've got.

[goclark]

21. Thomas does not speak for ME or MY PEOPLE

He speaks for Bush and he speaks for Mrs. Thomas.

[Blaq Dem]

40. His votes never deviate from Scalia's

You know what? Thomas doesn't represent blacks. He represents WASPs.
Ask him and he wouldn't be shy to you so.

Thomas is pretty much in lock step with the right-wing. When it comes to thinking, they have no concept of diversity. They can make it LOOK diverse but it won't represent the population they represent.

[goclark]

44. Well stated

"When it comes to thinking, they have no concept of diversity. They can make it LOOK diverse but it won't represent the population they represent."

[alarcojon]

42. I'm with you on Gonzalez

I guess some Latinos find solace in having a Latino attorney general - I'd rather have one, of any ethnicity, who cares about issues of importance to Latinos. Sorry, Gonzalez doesn't count.

[liberalitch]

5. Diverity wouldn't dare enter into it for CHIEF justice.....

now would it.

Can't have no black chick heading the supremes!

[CrispyQ]

6. I would like to see someone with diversity of ideas & world view

more than diversity of gender or race.

Fat fucking chance. He will nominate another loyal ideologue.

[Chuck in OHIO]

8. So...

How many LIES is that now? Or how many times has "it" opened it's mouth???

[merwin]

9. Isn't that a litmus test?

I thought Republicans were against affirmative action, which is exactly what he is describing here. He just said that even if there's someone more qualified who is a white male, he will be passed over.

[shanti]

10. gonzalez

n/t

[Wordie]

12. He's going to try for Thomas II

[nini]

13. Then he should appoint a liberal

that would help 'balance' things.

[anotherdrew]

14. judge judy?

[noonwitch]

18. He should pick a moderate, like Jeffrey Collins

Currently the US Attorney for SE Michigan. He was a criminal court judge in Detroit prior to his appointment and I like him because he sent the guy who threw the woman off the Belle Isle bridge away for a very long time.

[gratuitous]

20. So what, a Presbyterian instead of another white bread Episcopalian?

Although the person who's an embarrassment to his or her political identity is a good bet.

Curious, though; I thought that conservatives were dead set against preferences or quotas. They always want the best good old boy for the job.

[Akoto]

23. You want scary? Given Bush's mindset, here's my guess.

[saigon68]

24. That's SCARY

Look at the eyes on Coulter. She is possessed by something

[davidinalameda]

25. Bush Drops 'Diversity' Hint About Nominee

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/26/national/w084007D94.DTL

President Bush hinted on Monday that his next nominee for the Supreme Court would be a woman or a minority, saying that "diversity is one of the strengths of the country."


The president also expressed optimism that the Senate would confirm John Roberts as chief justice this week — which seems virtually certain.


Bush, asked about his next nominee, said "I will pick a person who can do the job. But I am mindful that diversity is one of the strengths of the country." The president is under pressure from many quarters — including his wife — to pick a woman or a minority for the seat of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is retiring.

[dsewell]

26. What could be more diverse than a liberal justice?

Do it, George!

[applegrove]

27. Let the torturers have a chance at the Supreme Court. They have

been so underrepresented since slavery was abolished.:sarcasm:

[tridim]

28. Alberto Gonzales it is.

Mr. Torture.

[Todd B]

32. Either him or..

Janice Rogers Brown, that is.

*shudders*

[John Q. Citizen]

29. Gonzalez?

[catnhatnh]

30. Bingo...

...Democrats-Diversity is people who THINK different
Republicans-Diversity is people who LOOK different...

[calico1]

31. You got that right.

I am Hispanic and I do NOT view Gonzales as representing diversity.

[stopbush]

33. If diversity is good, why did you send up a RW idelogue for CJ?

A tacit admission by * that Roberts was a fully political appointment to appease the RW wackos.

[zara]

34. Clarence Thomas Equaled Diversity...

[dretceterini]

35. nominations

This mindless nutcase this diversity is the difference in views between Falwell and Robertson..

[Davis_X_Machina]

36. Spencer Abraham..

...former Secretary of Energy, former Senator from Michigan, former law school professor.

Bush carried the Arab American vote big-time in 2000, lost it big time in 2004.

Also looks good overseas -- we're not a bunch of reflexively anti-Arab bigots.

[Yupster]

37. Emilio Garza is my guess

Of course he was my guess last time too, so what do I know.

Or maybe a Justice named Priscilla.

Both Texans anyway.

[tainowarrior]

38. translation:

I'm looking for a modern house negro...anyone seen a modern house negro around? Let me know...I'm looking!!!:sarcasm: :crazy:

[Blaq Dem]

39. A modern house negro can be in any color...

It's a person who sucks up to a master at the expense of his own people.

[2DleftofU]

46. So true

We fight so that repressed people can enjoy basic human rights and equality, and then a few have to ruin it by having the temerity to join the enemy. How sharper than a serpent's tooth indeed.

[VegasWolf]

41. Diversity = Not Rich Anglo Saxon = Middle Class White Male???

[alarcojon]

43. How will this play with his base?

Don't they consider any nod to affirmative action tantamount to hiring an unqualified candidate and denying a more qualified white candidate the job? That's the level at which their pea brains see it.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

48. RW Assholes love Uncle Tom/Aunt Jemima minorities

It's ok, as long as it's a "good nigger" or "good spick".

Clarence Thomas one more time.

[txaslftist]

45. Gonzales

Gonzales is pro-choice, so he's the perfect candidate.

That way the GOP ensures Roe v. Wade survives to use to kick liberals with for another thirty years; they can claim that the Democrats forced them to pick an Hispanic; they can tell the Hispanics that the Democrats don't love them if Dems oppose (which they should), gaining Hispanic votes...

Gonzales is the perfect Rovian candidate.

[NuttyFluffers]

49. basically --> Clarence Thomas, part 2. Mama's 2nd Token.

doesn't matter who he picks, it'll follow that same rough guideline.

can we say Uncle Tom's lean-to extention? i knew that we could.