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2005-10-03 07:35:05 AM
ZAZ: It is not normal but it is not unprecedented.

True, but still does not seem to bode well.

*sigh*
 
2005-10-03 07:35:10 AM
 
2005-10-03 07:35:16 AM
Does she like Long Dong Silver movies?
 
2005-10-03 07:35:23 AM
Prepare to be filibustered!

"We think that a nominee who has no judicial record is clearly an extraordinary circumstance. (After all, we get to define extraordinary circumstances to be whatever we want.)"

Asininity.
 
2005-10-03 07:35:33 AM
John Marshall and Earl Warren, two of the greatest Supreme Court Chief Justices weren't Judges before their appointments
 
2005-10-03 07:35:35 AM
a loyal member of the president's inner circle

Yeah, we're fukked.
 
2005-10-03 07:35:46 AM
zkm:

The woman that broke the gender barrier of the Dallas bar association and was the first female president of the Texas bar and already the liberals are sharpening their knives. So female empowerment is only good when it happens to people on YOUR side?


So it's possible to be glad women have signs of equality, and still not like specific women, for certain jobs?

//I don't dislike white men, just george bush...
//See how I could oppose someone politically without it being a race/gender thing?
 
2005-10-03 07:36:00 AM
From another thread that liters can't see.

Member of the inner council, nothing suspicous going on there.
I've lost all faith in this 'leadership'.
 
2005-10-03 07:36:15 AM
atomsmoosher:

bloody murderer

I'm glad that, to Bush, diversity means a white woman from Texas.

Why, how many white women from Texas are already on the Supreme Court?


So with that spot filled, I guess my lifelong dream of seeing Supreme Court Justice Molly Ivins has been shattered.
 
2005-10-03 07:37:10 AM
zkm

All you stated makes her qualified to be a Supreme Court judge in what fashion?

Not a bar president, not anything else, but a judge.
 
2005-10-03 07:37:36 AM
Roberts was just so ... pretty. His crisp white smile, those shining blue eyes, that coif of gently tussled golden-brown angel-silk.



And Bush has to follow that beauty with the Banjo kid from Deliverance. No, that's not even right. The lack of eyebrows and the beady eyes of inbred hill people are the same, but she has the translucent skin and the nose of a wiccan just to throw me off both my witty pop-culture reference and my lunch.
 
2005-10-03 07:38:28 AM
Does anyone know what kind of rating the Bar Association gave her?
 
2005-10-03 07:39:03 AM
$10 says she is a fundie christian.

Anti-abortion, pro-ID.


Any takers?
 
2005-10-03 07:39:27 AM
This might, let me stress might, be a sacrificial lamb for Bush to throw on the fire and get the filibuster on the table.
 
2005-10-03 07:39:39 AM
atomsmoosher: Does anyone know what kind of rating the Bar Association gave her?

A "7"
 
2005-10-03 07:39:46 AM
zkm: The woman that broke the gender barrier of the Dallas bar association and was the first female president of the Texas bar and already the liberals are sharpening their knives. So female empowerment is only good when it happens to people on YOUR side?

Bwahahahaha.

I didn't know Karl Rove posted here.

The negative comments in this thread have NOTHING to do her being a woman, and has everything to do her being a Bush crony.
 
2005-10-03 07:39:56 AM
Airhed13: "We think that a nominee who has no judicial record is clearly an extraordinary circumstance. (After all, we get to define extraordinary circumstances to be whatever we want.)"

Yes, because appointing somebody with no experience whatsoever to the highest court in the land is something that should go completely uncontested...

/Yes, it IS an extraordinary circumstance
//Yes, I know she's a lawyer
///Wouldn't trust a nurse to do brain surgery, either
////Soylent slashies are PEOPLE! They're PEOPLE~!
 
2005-10-03 07:40:01 AM
Yay, a woman!

With no previous judicial experience... WTF? It's not as if there aren't more qualified people -- including more qualified women!
 
2005-10-03 07:40:06 AM
screw party bickering.... SHE LOOKS LIKE AN ALIEN ALIEN ALIEN ALIEN! ALIEN ALIEN ALIEN ALIEN!ALIEN ALIEN ALIEN ALIEN! didn't you see the arrival?!!
 
2005-10-03 07:40:31 AM
Is it normal for SCOTUS judges to be appointed from the inner circle of an administration?

/Genuine question
 
2005-10-03 07:40:40 AM
I wonder if her knees are sharp?

/has a thing for redheads
 
2005-10-03 07:40:53 AM
Her (former) law firm represents defendants in asbestos, fen-phen and hormone replacement litigation. She's a big bidness lawyer.
 
2005-10-03 07:41:11 AM
atomsmoosher: Does anyone know what kind of rating the Bar Association gave her?


I don't believe they rate "non-judges" before they're on the table?
 
2005-10-03 07:41:22 AM
Giving Bush SCOTUS nominee power is like giving a retarded kid a loaded Uzi.
 
2005-10-03 07:41:28 AM
Driving Without Pants

May you live for 1,000 years for posting that image and quote, kind sir.
1,000 years



/not a comment on the judge, just love to see a BZ reference this early
 
2005-10-03 07:41:36 AM
I would be embarrassed to post such ignorant drivel as the stuff above me.

It is not the least bit unusual to nominate non-judges to the Supreme Court. Lewis Powell, Abe Fortas, Arthur Goldberg, Byron White, Earl Warren, Tom Clark, Jimmy Byrnes... and on and on.

I don't know anything about this lady other than what is in the press. We'll all learn about her together.
 
2005-10-03 07:41:44 AM

Oh yeah, she does dirty work for Bush. From How Bush Got into the National Guard: Or, How It's Useful Having Friends in High Places:

The Texas Monthly called him the Golden Boy of Texas politics. He was a young man at the top of his game. Then a bank-stock scandal in the early-'70s got in the way of his next career move, and he came in third in the 1972 Democratic primary election for governor. (Republicans at the time were irrelevant.) He was never charged in the stock-fraud case that sent his successor in the Speaker's Office to prison. But the throw-the-bastards-out election of 1972 ended Ben Barnes' career. Or so it seemed.

By 1998, Barnes was on top again, as a millionaire lobbyist working for GTech, the company operating public lotteries in 37 states. But lottery revenues were plummeting, and lottery-
commission chair Harriet Miers (who was also Bush's personal lawyer and once was paid $19,000 to look into the National Guard story for a gubernatorial campaign) re-bid GTech's contract. GTech sued, threatened to shut down the Texas lottery for a year, and hired a new lobbyist - after providing Barnes a $23 million severance package. Miers fired one lottery director who sued and settled. Then the second lottery director fired by Miers filed suit. He claimed he was taking the fall for GTech, which, he alleged, kept its contract and bought out Barnes because he had the story on Bush.
 
2005-10-03 07:41:44 AM
OMFG! I know her!!
 
2005-10-03 07:41:47 AM
So with that spot filled, I guess my lifelong dream of seeing Supreme Court Justice Molly Ivins has been shattered.

No, there is still an opening for white female plagiarist from Texas.
 
2005-10-03 07:42:06 AM
morrisbird:

you mean nobidness lawyer. badum ching!
 
2005-10-03 07:42:08 AM
I, for one, am glad to see that our president's exausted search has lead to the best canidate in the country. Maybe he should try looking farther than 20 feet from the oval office. Surely there are better, more qualified people than a former chair of the Texas Lottery Commission, in this country of 200+million people. Can we get a non-activist judge without getting a Bush crony?

/Bush does it again folks.
 
2005-10-03 07:42:25 AM
consdubya:

Is it normal for SCOTUS judges to be appointed from the inner circle of an administration?

huh, interesting point... she would probably have to recuse herself from any 2nd term lawsuits stemming from the first 5 years... at least...

MorrisBird:

Her (former) law firm represents defendants in asbestos, fen-phen and hormone replacement litigation. She's a big bidness lawyer.

oh, good, I'm sure she'll look out for me then...
 
2005-10-03 07:42:39 AM
Poor Alberto Gonzalez.
 
2005-10-03 07:43:15 AM
Something smells very off about this... No bench experience, likely Baptist... Seems like a sacrifice candidate.
 
2005-10-03 07:43:22 AM
But does she smell like rancid tuna? That's what I want to know!
 
2005-10-03 07:43:36 AM
Oh, I forgot the liberal's wet dream of a Justice - William O. Douglas - no judicial experience.
 
2005-10-03 07:44:05 AM
KentukyBob
My GOD!!! She is a METHODIST....WE ARE ALL GONNA END UP IN HELL!!!

That's pretty funny. I come from a town where the power was evenly divided between a Christian University and the affiliated Churches of Christ, and the very large and wealthy First United Methodist.

//had to be there, I guess.
 
2005-10-03 07:44:07 AM
Democrats are just bitter because they could be doing the same thing if they were in power.... oh but that's right, the people reelected the President for another term. LOL
Deal with it Demowhiners.

/fire trinket
/fire resistance +25
 
2005-10-03 07:44:31 AM
Why can't they pick someone that actually has judical experience?

/thinking of selling up and moving to Canada.
 
2005-10-03 07:44:44 AM
Quadriplegic

Something smells very off about this... No bench experience, likely Baptist... Seems like a sacrifice candidate.

Methodist, actually. But you might be right.
 
2005-10-03 07:44:46 AM
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/LAW/10/03/scotus.preview/top.0728.miers.bush.ap.jp g

most photogenic president ever?
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2005-10-03 07:44:47 AM
Is it normal for SCOTUS judges to be appointed from the inner circle of an administration?

Supreme Court nominees are usually sitting judges. Potential candidates are often sent to the Appeals Court for a few years to warm up.
 
2005-10-03 07:45:20 AM
I'd go down on her like a lewinsky on speed
 
2005-10-03 07:45:22 AM
Great, another woman on the bench. Job well done once again Mr. Bush.
 
2005-10-03 07:45:36 AM
Shades of Mike Brown indeed. Man... this administration is just so inept.
 
2005-10-03 07:45:41 AM
RabidDog
Why can't they pick someone that actually has judical experience?

/thinking of selling up and moving to Canada.


Ahhh...Bush's plan comes together at last....
 
2005-10-03 07:46:15 AM
atomsmoosher: Methodist, actually. But you might be right

Ack! Baptist, Methodist, what's the difference? (No, really, what's the difference?)
 
2005-10-03 07:46:16 AM
fdiaz78: Deal with it Demowhiners.
Demowhiners?

That's not even funny... that's not even CLOSE, and it makes no sense...

Deal with it repubabies

see how stupid that is?
 
2005-10-03 07:47:27 AM
fdiaz78: LOL
Deal with it Demowhiners.


+9 Staff of trolling.
/You have been eaten by a grue.
 
2005-10-03 07:47:36 AM
fdiaz78: /fire trinket
/fire resistance +25



Wow fdiaz78, you're cool.....
 
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