Janice Brown is yet another example of George W. Bush's tendancy to favor ideology over qualifications. The California Judicial Nominations Evaluating Commission rated Brown not qualified for the state supreme court on two occasions. In addition, a large minority of the ABA Federal Judiciary Committee found her not qualified for the D.C. Circuit, and *no* member of that committee rated her as well-qualified. She has strongly pro-corporate leanings, and is willing to ignore established precident in order to support them. For example, she wrote a dissenting opinion in a case involving the firing of a worker who blew the whistle on a company that was shipping defective parts for airplanes, arguing that the government had no right to create exceptions to at-will employment. She also dissented in a case accusing Nike of making false statements, arguing that commercial speech should be protected in the same manner as individual speech and that a precident set 60 years ago should be overturned: "In 1942, the United States Supreme Court, like a wizard trained at Hogwarts, waved its wand and plucked the commercial doctrine out of thin air." She has expressed strongly anti-government views in her writings and public speeches: "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. ...The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." In a 1999 speech, she argued that the Bill of Rights is not incorporated into the 14th amendment, and thus none of the First Amendment protections restrict what state governments can do. This is a pretty frightening position from someone who would presumably be in line for a Supreme Court position. My suspicion is that the Republican majority will fully support her, both because of her strong right-wing positions and because, as a Bush nominee, they're practically obligated to. Because she's black, if the Democrats filibuster to try to block her appointment the Republicans will play the race card. In fact, this has already started: "She is a conservative African-American woman, and for some that alone disqualifies her nomination to the D.C. circuit." -- Orrin Hatch. Links: Alliance for Justice report: http://www.independentjudiciary.com/resources/docs/Brown%20Report%20FINAL.p df Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100900,00.html35 responses total.
Someone PLEASE kill Karl Rove NOW!!
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Justice for Justice Brown Debra Saunders, October 23, 2003 Be clear why the Congressional Black Caucus and other so-called civil- rights groups oppose California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown's appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It is not because Brown wrote a decision that upheld Proposition 209, the voter-approved initiative that ended racial and gender preferences in California state hiring, contracting and admissions. It's not because she was on the losing side of a 4-3 California Supreme Court ruling that overturned a law requiring parental consent for a minor's abortion. What really gets under caucus members' thin skins is that Janice Rogers Brown is a black conservative. You see, the all-Democratic caucus holds that it alone represents the African American community, that the Democratic Party essentially owns black Americans and that African Americans owe the Democratic Party. Thus, caucus members will hound any black person who escapes the liberal plantation. . . .
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I watched Sen. Durkins commentary on Justice Brown, and it was quite critical of her extreme neoconservative views. Her response, though, was mostly to act personally injured about the cartoon about her that Durkin brought up - probably the least relevant part of his commentary.
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re #3: which is no doubt why the Congressional Black Caucus spends so much time hounding Colin Powell, right?
As expected, klg reduces matters of priciple to matters of race.
s/priciple/principle
Rane in resp:5 :: "neoconservative" really gets badly abused these days. It does *not* mean "extreme conservative." The Bush administration has a lot of neocons in it, but they are by no means the whole pie, and in Congress the neoconservatives do not have excessive power. The original neocons were former leftists, in some case out-and-out communists, who switched sides in the Cold War, more or less. Neocons these days are more concerned with global power issues and support using America's power to reshape the world in our favor. Neoconservatives led us into the recent war in Iraq, they'd been pushing for such a war for years before Sept. 11 2001. But outside of a general tilt towards business interests and away from individuals, I don't see the neocons as having as extreme a domestic agenda as is ascribed to Justice Brown in these postings. I've never heard anyone I think of as a neoconservative argue that the 14th amendment should not apply to the states. One might better characterize these views as "paleoconservative;" a leading spokesman for this point of view is Pat Buchanan, who was passionately against the war in Iraq. The Neocon/Paleocon split within the Republican party pops up in a number of places. In general: The Neoconservatives support the projection of American power overseas, and they are passionate supporters of Israel. On US social issues they are generally quiet, though I'm willing to listen to folks tell me I'm wrong on that. The Paleoconservatives want to strip the Federal government of power; they want America to stop meddling overseas and they are critical of support for Israel. They tend to extreme social conservative views: anti-gay, pro-fundamentalist-Christian, anti-social-services. They are rabidly anti-taxation. In general, I characterize them as wanting to repeal the 20th century. :) But I digress.
Re #3: Did I call it, or what? The Republicans are hoping that, by playing the race card, they can get a black ultraconservative into a position where they can't get a white ultraconservative.
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Ha Ha The cocksucking liberals looked like the bigots and FOOLS they are in contesting this fin example of black womenhod. Janice is a perfect judge. The republicans made the liberals look like the far left commies they really are. The election will go quite well for us. I hope the stupid ass democrats contest every one Bush nominates. It will only result in a total exposure of their sick and perverted agenda. America is a conservative nation.64% of all Americans claim to be conservative. gull you are one stupid bastard. I have beat your sorry ass in every debate you summoned the courage to challenge me in. You finally twit filtered me because your arguements were so weak they couldn't withstand my great debating skills. I will agree on one thing though...you are a great masterbater....you sick nut-chinned anal assassin. Henceforth I shall call you the nut-ninja.
re 13 He's a ninja but he doesn't use a machette?! He only masturbates?! You live in a sorry world indeed if that's all your ninjas can do.
Re #13: Respond to some of the actual points in my message and we can have a debate. So far all you've done is name-calling, which I'm not really interested in.
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florida? what happened to oklahoma?! po
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wellll. i suspect not, but i any case, it wouldn't be tounge ...
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PROOF THAT GOD EXITS!!
(How else can you explain this miracle??)
The Washington Times reports Al Sharpton, racial demagogue and
Democratic presidential candidate, urges Democratic senators not to
filibuster President Bush's nomination of Justice Janice Rogers Brown
for the Circuit Court of Appeals. "I don't agree with her politics. I
don't agree with some of her background," Sharpton says. "But she
should get an up-or-down vote."
Sharpton's comments came in the wake of a news conference by "black
leaders" . . . whose idea of "civil rights" is to demand rigid
ideological uniformity from all black would-be public servants. "Mr.
Sharpton echoed the concerns of many conservatives-especially black
conservatives-that Justice Brown is being opposed because she doesn't
conform to the Democratic ideology that many blacks espouse," reports
the Times.
What's the "miracle" in this? It was someone expressing an opinion. People do that all the time.
Rev. Al don't just change like that. Praise the Lord. Halleluyah.
I think it is very consistent for Sharpton. She is, after all, Black.
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Whose?
soare many of the black leaders who have opposed her nomination.
Sharpton opposes her too, but just suggested that a vote be held.
Ever since Tawana Brawley, Sharpton has been nothing more than a publicity-craving racist demagogue, as far as I'm concerned. Just goes to show what a bit of persistence and a lot of time can do.
I think thats whre the miracle comes in.
It's not a miracle. It is merely a reflection of the mass stupidity of the American people and its media.
s'alright .. dont' worry .. they ahve cable .....
aren;t these udges teh ones labled 'neanderthal' by that famous dui-driver?
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