bu9418
10-05-2005, 07:59 PM
The Swing Vote
Yesterday George W. Bush made his second appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States. As I had feared, this appointment was made in the name of what I will call political diversity. It appears that more than half of the qualified potential candidates were disqualified because they didn't fit the mold of the politically correct definition of diversity. And so you have Harriet Miers as your next Associate Justice of the United States. Was this a bad pick? I don't think so.
We have the right screaming today because Bush didn't appoint a known jurist, and known Scalia and Thomas conservative. I am not a pundit, so I guess my opinion doesn't matter. Bill Kristol lamented the pick. Ann Coulter said the pick was mediocre, and Rush wanted to know why Bush didn't drive this pick home with a known jurist.
What people are not considering is that Harriet Miers is well known by George W. Bush. Bush knows what the court is getting. Maybe the rest of the country doesn't know, but Bush does. We know she donated to the 1988 Gore campaign. We know she was once a Democrat. We also know she left the Democrat Party and although she donated to that party, she voted republican in the same year.
She left the Texas ABA after they took a stand to support a woman's right to choose. In the height of crime in Texas, when a person's right to bear arms came into question, Harriet Miers came down on the side of the individual, stating that a person's right to bear arms should never be sacrificed in order to fight crime. She is also an evangelical Christian who is a Bible literalist. Which means she interprets the written word, and doesn't conject personal opinions.
Points, or Counterpoints, I have a few questions I wouldn't mind seeing answered.
When did the Supreme Court come to be known as the court that decides the social issues of this country? I thought the role of the court was limited? To apply the constitution to the cases before them. Period. Am I wrong?
When did a stance on abortion become the main qualification for any judicial nominee? And why are people unnerved by anyone's stance?
What do they mean by 'The Swing Vote'? How does a seat on Justice Court, whether it be the Supreme Court, an Apellate Court or the Supreme Court of any State of our Union become a swing vote? A Justice has one role; to apply the written law to the case before him or her. There is no so-called political 'swing' necessary. Anyone who disagrees with that assessment has no business partaking in any confirmation process, including a General Election.
Based upon what I have read, Harriet Miers will make a fine Associate Justice of the United States. If she isn't, then I would blindly assume that either the United States Senate will do its job(s) and perform a thorough confirmation process or the United States House of Representatives will exercise their Constitutional authority to impeach this, and any other Justice who extends his or her responsibility to creating law from the bench.
Mark Bureau
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Yesterday George W. Bush made his second appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States. As I had feared, this appointment was made in the name of what I will call political diversity. It appears that more than half of the qualified potential candidates were disqualified because they didn't fit the mold of the politically correct definition of diversity. And so you have Harriet Miers as your next Associate Justice of the United States. Was this a bad pick? I don't think so.
We have the right screaming today because Bush didn't appoint a known jurist, and known Scalia and Thomas conservative. I am not a pundit, so I guess my opinion doesn't matter. Bill Kristol lamented the pick. Ann Coulter said the pick was mediocre, and Rush wanted to know why Bush didn't drive this pick home with a known jurist.
What people are not considering is that Harriet Miers is well known by George W. Bush. Bush knows what the court is getting. Maybe the rest of the country doesn't know, but Bush does. We know she donated to the 1988 Gore campaign. We know she was once a Democrat. We also know she left the Democrat Party and although she donated to that party, she voted republican in the same year.
She left the Texas ABA after they took a stand to support a woman's right to choose. In the height of crime in Texas, when a person's right to bear arms came into question, Harriet Miers came down on the side of the individual, stating that a person's right to bear arms should never be sacrificed in order to fight crime. She is also an evangelical Christian who is a Bible literalist. Which means she interprets the written word, and doesn't conject personal opinions.
Points, or Counterpoints, I have a few questions I wouldn't mind seeing answered.
When did the Supreme Court come to be known as the court that decides the social issues of this country? I thought the role of the court was limited? To apply the constitution to the cases before them. Period. Am I wrong?
When did a stance on abortion become the main qualification for any judicial nominee? And why are people unnerved by anyone's stance?
What do they mean by 'The Swing Vote'? How does a seat on Justice Court, whether it be the Supreme Court, an Apellate Court or the Supreme Court of any State of our Union become a swing vote? A Justice has one role; to apply the written law to the case before him or her. There is no so-called political 'swing' necessary. Anyone who disagrees with that assessment has no business partaking in any confirmation process, including a General Election.
Based upon what I have read, Harriet Miers will make a fine Associate Justice of the United States. If she isn't, then I would blindly assume that either the United States Senate will do its job(s) and perform a thorough confirmation process or the United States House of Representatives will exercise their Constitutional authority to impeach this, and any other Justice who extends his or her responsibility to creating law from the bench.
Mark Bureau
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