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[xsarien]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/04/specter.scotus.ap/index.html

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The Republican expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush on Wednesday against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation.

Sen. Arlen Specter, fresh from winning a fifth term in Pennsylvania, also said the current Supreme Court now lacks legal "giants" on the bench.

"When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think that is unlikely," Specter said, referring to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

"The president is well aware of what happened, when a number of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster," Specter added, referring to Senate Democrats' success over the past four years in blocking the confirmation of many of Bush's conservative judicial picks. "... And I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning."

This calms my nerves...a little. At least the Supreme Court won't become a bastion of religion-based moralizing behind the shield of a robe.

 

[shoplifter]

bork borkety bork bork bork

 

[xsarien]

bork borkety bork bork bork

Not likely, Specter helped kill that nomination when Reagan tried to push him through. It's high-fucking-time that the moderate Republicans - and the real Republicans - started asserting themselves against the Bush administration.

 

[Alcibiades]

honestly, this could just be positioning so that if someone almost contraversal comes he Spector can go "wait, wait" then say "well, I wasn't sure, but he's earned my confidence"...

why do I think that, because Bush helped Spector the primary in an EXTREMELY CLOSE primary election...

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

honestly, this could just be positioning so that if someone almost contraversal comes he Spector can go "wait, wait" then say "well, I wasn't sure, but he's earned my confidence"...

why do I think that, because Bush helped Spector the primary in an EXTREMELY CLOSE primary election...

Be ready for a bit of seperation as far as the GOP is concerned. I don't think you will get Sr. GOPers like Spector and Lugar to go in lockstep with firebrands like Jim Bunning

 

[Drensch]

Watch dumbass name Asscroft.

 

[Catchpenny]

This may be Specter's last term, as he's getting up there in years. So he may be less inclined to tow the party line...or less inclined to worry about what the pro-choice majority in Pennsylvania think of him.

At this point, I say let Bush appoint whatever assholes he feels like. Let's see how the country likes the true face of the Republican Party.

 

[Pimpwerx]

It's lip service. Talk is cheap. And who keep voting that douchebag back into office? Seriously, Arlen Specter doesn't deserve a seat. PEACE.

 

[Ripclawe]

Washington, D.C.- Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) made the following comments today on the judicial confirmation process.

"Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the President about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges.

"As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush’s nominees in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor. I have never and would never apply any litmus test on the abortion issue and, as the record shows, I have voted to confirm Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice O’Connor, and Justice Kennedy and led the fight to confirm Justice Thomas.

"I have already sponsored a protocol calling for a Judiciary Committee hearing within thirty days of a nomination, a vote out of Committee thirty days later, and floor action thirty days after that. I am committed to such prompt action by the Committee on all of President Bush’s nominees.

"In light of the repeated filibusters by the Democrats in the last Senate session, I am concerned about a potential repetition of such filibusters. I expect to work well with President Bush in the judicial confirmation process in the years ahead."

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_11_04_corner-archive.asp#045306

 

[impirius]

I hope Bush nominates a judge like Bork that won't get.. y'know.. Borked. Bork actually believed in--*gasp*--judicial restraint and a strict interpretation of the Constitution. I hope that any Bush appointees to the SC have the same mindset.



...BORK BORK BORK

 

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