Welcome to the Realm™ - Version 5.0...
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________





What’s the difference between then-prospective Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and current prospect John Roberts?

If you’re Teddy (hic!!!) Kennedy – one gets a free pass, one doesn’t.&#160 Three guesses as to which way that pass went, and the first two don’t count.

When it comes to insisting Supreme Court nominees discuss how they would rule on future cases, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has apparently done a philosophical U-turn.

The senator has been vocal recently about President Bush’s nominee John Roberts, saying the federal judge “will be expected to answer fully” any questions about his views on controversial issues; but the Democrat sang a different tune in 1967, when he noted that candidates should “defer any comments” on such matters.

ButOfCourse&#153.&#160 Ol’ Thurgood was a Demoscum, nominated by a Demoscum and rubber-stamped in by an Imperial Socialist Congress.&#160 Roberts, on the other hand, is a white Catholic conservative.

(To get just the right flavor of that last, say it with the most pissy-faced sneer you can manage.&#160 Don’t hold that face too long, though, or it’ll freeze that way and you might become a Donk. (grin))

In a story titled “Kennedy Flip-Flops on Quizzing High Court Nominees” by Jeff Johnson, Cybercast News Service reports it obtained 38-year-old film footage of Kennedy, who was responding to a question about senators grilling Thurgood Marshall about how he might rule in future cases should he be on the nation’s highest court. The news service combined the 1967 video with footage of Kennedy’s contradictory July 20, 2005, remarks. (ED. NOTE:&#160 To get footage of that, go here.)

“We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters, which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court,” Kennedy said during the 1967 press conference. “This has been a procedure which has been followed in the past and is one which I think is based upon sound legal precedent.”

A standard which also applied to…let’s see, what was her name again???&#160 Ah, yes – Ruth Bader Ginsberg.&#160 One of Kaiser Wilhelm von Slickmeister’s nominees.&#160 Time and again refused to answer any questions about her views on matters that might someday come before the Court.&#160 Got pretty much the same free pass that ol’ Thurgood did, too, if memory serves.

But not so with the white Catholic conservative&#160 justice-designate, no-sirree-Bob.

On June 20 of this year, Kennedy delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate in which he seemed to contradict the notion of deferring any comments, saying that senators “must not fail in our duty to the American people to responsibly examine Judge Roberts’ legal views.”

“Because Judge Roberts has written relatively few opinions in his brief tenure as a judge, his views on a wide variety of vital issues are still unknown,” Kennedy stated. “What little we know about his views and values lends even greater importance and urgency to his responsibility to provide the Senate and the American people with clear answers.”

Translation:&#160 He’s a conservative, and we have to do everything we can to scuttle his nomination, no matter how well-qualified he is.”

Not that it matters, of course.&#160 Roberts will be confirmed, and the Donks’ grasp on government – not to mention reality – slips that much further into the abyss.

Gotta love it.


Notice: compact(): Undefined variable: limits in /home/sysop284/domains/spatulacitybbs.net/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-comment-query.php on line 853

Notice: compact(): Undefined variable: groupby in /home/sysop284/domains/spatulacitybbs.net/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-comment-query.php on line 853

Notice: Theme without comments.php is deprecated since version 3.0.0 with no alternative available. Please include a comments.php template in your theme. in /home/sysop284/domains/spatulacitybbs.net/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4027

Leave a Reply

_____________________________________________________

    
_______________
 
 
Glossary -  Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - History - The SpatulaFAQ
This blog is best viewed with your eyes. 
It helps, though, if you have Microsoft Internet Explorer  set about 1024x768 1280x1024 with your Favorites window activated on the left deactivated.  (At least until I can get a better handle on how WordPress works.)

(KORRIOTH:  Oh, great.  More wormholes.)

Mozilla Firefox doesn't do too badly, either; in fact, it's His Rudeness' browser of choice.
You can  use Nutscrape,  if you so desire - but why in blazes would you want to use a browser from a company that had to hide behind Janet El Reño's skirt to be successful?

And don't even  get me started on Opera or Chrome.  I'm not about  to trust any browser that won't let me change its color scheme.
Hacked by ZAKILOUP was based on WordPress platform 2.6 (it's 3.05 3.31 now), RSS tech , RSS comments design by Gx3.