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Question: Would you have voted to confirm Robert Bork?
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« on: April 24, 2005, 08:47:01 PM »
Definitely! And he would have been far superior to that leftist Anthony Kennedy who eventually took the position.
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2005, 08:48:55 PM »
Yes obviously.  The most qualified nominee in the last 30 years.
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2005, 08:51:41 PM »
Yes.
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2005, 08:55:46 PM »
No. He is a true extremist.
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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2005, 08:58:12 PM »

Yep. Right up there with James Madison and the people who actually wrote the Constitution.
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2005, 09:42:53 PM »
Did you ever consider that the situation today is a little different than the situation in the 1780s?
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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2005, 09:45:46 PM »
Yes, and if the Constitution is ever outdated, there is an amendment process.
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2005, 10:43:03 PM »
well, duh
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2005, 11:53:40 PM »
Heck no, although I would have voted to confirm Scalia.
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« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2005, 05:59:57 AM »
No, and your contrasting example of the eventual result - Anthony Kennedy - shows why it is so important to 'Bork' bad nominees, if possible.
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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2005, 07:41:51 AM »
I'd probably hold my nose and vote yes.  I deeply dislike the man, but he at least fully understood the actual position of the American judiciary.
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« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2005, 09:55:43 AM »
Quote from: Jake on April 24, 2005, 08:48:55 PM
Yes obviously.  The most qualified nominee in the last 30 years.
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« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2005, 11:16:10 AM »
No. Or Clarence Thomas either.
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« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2005, 11:37:01 AM »
Can I ask why the poll is divided so that Republicans and Libertarians are together, and Democrats, Independents and Others are together?
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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2005, 02:05:15 PM »
I would never have voted to confirm someone who advocated the inclusion of a "notwithstanding clause" in the U.S. Constitution.
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« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2005, 03:14:30 PM »
No, although I would have confirmed every current member of the Court.

As an aside, although I strongly disagree with many of them, I would vote to confirm all of Bush's judges EXCEPT Pickering and Owens.
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« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2005, 03:24:25 PM »
Who are Pickering and Owens?
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« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2005, 03:52:38 PM »
Charles Pickering
Priscilla Owens

2 of the Bush judicial nominees.  He's a racist who has written in favor of segregation.  She's a blatant crook several of whose decisions have been called "blatant judicial activism" by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2005, 04:36:07 PM »
Quote from: Wakie on April 25, 2005, 03:52:38 PM
Charles Pickering
Priscilla Owens

2 of the Bush judicial nominees.  He's a racist who has written in favor of segregation.  She's a blatant crook several of whose decisions have been called "blatant judicial activism" by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Back it up or shut up? I really believe its more along the lines with the liberals of "We don't want those n*ggers getting uppity now!"
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« Reply #19 on: April 25, 2005, 04:40:52 PM »
Quote from: Governor StatesRights on April 25, 2005, 04:36:07 PM
Quote from: Wakie on April 25, 2005, 03:52:38 PM
Charles Pickering
Priscilla Owens

2 of the Bush judicial nominees.  He's a racist who has written in favor of segregation.  She's a blatant crook several of whose decisions have been called "blatant judicial activism" by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Back it up or shut up? I really believe its more along the lines with the liberals of "We don't want those n*ggers getting uppity now!"

Ok, what would you like me to "back up"?  The Gonzales statement about Owens?  Or the Pickering law school paper wherein he favored segregation?
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« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2005, 06:33:42 AM »
Quote from: Wakie on April 25, 2005, 04:40:52 PM
Quote from: Governor StatesRights on April 25, 2005, 04:36:07 PM
Quote from: Wakie on April 25, 2005, 03:52:38 PM
Charles Pickering
Priscilla Owens

2 of the Bush judicial nominees.  He's a racist who has written in favor of segregation.  She's a blatant crook several of whose decisions have been called "blatant judicial activism" by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Back it up or shut up? I really believe its more along the lines with the liberals of "We don't want those n*ggers getting uppity now!"

Ok, what would you like me to "back up"?  The Gonzales statement about Owens?  Or the Pickering law school paper wherein he favored segregation?

Yes of course I would like links from credible sources on both.
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« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2005, 12:09:51 PM »
Ok, let's do Judge Owens first.  From her home town newspaper ....

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-07-19/pols_feature9.html
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« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2005, 01:00:58 PM »

She seems to be precisely what is needed. If she stands strongly in favor of parental notification then I am all for her.
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« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2005, 10:19:21 PM »
Quote from: Governor StatesRights on April 26, 2005, 01:00:58 PM

She seems to be precisely what is needed. If she stands strongly in favor of parental notification then I am all for her.

In other words, "judicial activism" is ok as long as it goes in your favor.
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« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2005, 10:28:03 PM »
Yes he would make a great supreme court justice.
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