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Bush Includes Controversial Pick in Appeals Court Nominees
News:
President Bush has nominated five conservative judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals, including one candidate, Terrence Boyle, who has drawn threats of a Democratic filibuster. Though all the nominees fit the hard-right profile Bush requires of his judicial nominees, Boyle is of particular concern, having been recently accused of issuing rulings at least four times in cases involving companies in which his family holds stock. Boyle has written off the clear violation of interest as an oversight on the part of his aides.
Stacking the courts............the only way they can win
"I need a U.S. senator who understands that we need people on the bench who will strictly interpret the Constitution and not use the bench to legislate," Bush said.
This is like the pot calling the kettle 'tarbaby' (TY Tony Snowballs). Shrubco's prolific use of signing statements, and Gonzo and his loose definition Neo-con Dictionary of Law have done more damage to our Constitution than any threat of terrorism. Rumsfeld calling dissenters of this Administration's policy, Nazi Facsists, was the last straw.
Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), called the judicial nominations -- an issue that has been a rallying cry of the conservative wing of the Republican Party -- "extremely divisive."
Strong democrats
With the mid-term elections coming up, will the democrats finally have a backbone and filibuster these candidates. And will they scream it to all media to the hilltops about why these people should not be confirmed and not crinch when the neocons start their nonsense again to fight it?
good questions
I guess we'll have answers soon enough. If they win the majority of either or both houses and still do not grow spines then I think we'll know the true state of the Democratic Party.
- "What experience and history teach is this--that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." - Georg Hegel
Wouldn't this make a good concentration camp?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/15/news/orleans.php
After using it for only 10 weeks, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has shut down a $17 million state-of-the-art morgue built to handle victims of Hurricane Katrina, according to agency officials.
The morgue, which can decontaminate and examine 150 bodies a day and has living space for nearly 500 workers, is closing because the number of bodies coming in has dwindled to about one a week, said Chuck Smith, a FEMA official.
[...]
No one seemed to know what would happen to the 70,000-square-foot, or 6,500-square-meter, building that housed the morgue, built from the ground up on private land belonging to Bear Industries, a construction supply company.
In addition to the morgue, a warehouse, and rows of never-used cubicles, it included a cafeteria and fitness center.
Another election-tme distraction
When jobs are going away and Iraq is sucking up our young working people and our tax dollars, thank you George W. Jesusnut for another "Quick, look over there!"
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
---Sinclair Lewis
If seated on the bench,
can we expect Boyle to commit similar "oversights" in the future? Do appeals judges serve for life? If so, should we anticipate a lifetime of "oversights"?
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If the neo-conmen extracted their craniums from their sphincters, maybe their ears would work better.
Boyle did okay . . .
in the trial of CIA contractor abuse of detainees in Afghanistan that ended a few weeks ago in North Carolina with a conviction. The contractor beat the guy for two days with a flashlight before he died and faces 11 1/2 years for assault. (rolling eyes)
"...Defense attorneys also tried to mount a “public authority defense,
re: Boyle did okay
Wise: thanks for that info.
I'm sure Dem court nominees have had their problems, too. However, this fellow seems to have more than his fair share.
Perhaps the evidence and the law in this case was so strong and clear - as in the Guantanamo case - that the court was compelled to rule as it did, ideology notwithstanding.
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If the neo-conmen extracted their craniums from their sphincters, maybe their ears would work better.
Arlen Specter
Here is part of a letter I, a Pennsylvania constituent, wrote to Specter in June, 2006.:
As far as judicial nominations are concerned, I believe that a supermajority vote should be required before lifetime appointments are handed out. Since the Frist cabal is always threatening to invoke the so-called “nuclear option
If it's failure, there's a Bush
It is always about the money.
It won't matter
It doesn't matter what the Senate does or doesn't do. Bush will simply wait a bit and do a recess appointment or five. Then he'll scream "don't change horses in mid-war" when the recess appointments are getting ready to run out.
I see them! I see the fnords!