Lisa N:
Thomas Sowell’s column on the O’Connor resignation applies to the up and coming candidates. Sowell said the mistake in nominating O’Connor was that they wanted a WOMAN and thus looked within a limited group for the most qualified within that group. My concern about Gonzales is that they now want a Hispanic to toady up to yet another group. I hope that is not the case and if he is nominated, he is the BEST choice.
I’ve been following Hugh Hewitt as well as looking over the list on Slate. THere are some very well qualified judges to choose from and many from the basis of their C.V.s look like better candidates than Gonzales.
Lisa N
Lisa N:
Thomas Sowell was right about Sandra Day O’Conner. Reagan didn’t want to be seen as being “Anti-Woman” (he was PRO-LIFE), so he nominated her to placate the feminists.
May those who have yet to E-Mail the President, and those looking for something else to do, can send this:
Emilio M. Garza
*Emilio M. Garza, 57, is a judge for U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and has been on the short list for a Supreme Court nomination before.
Justice Department officials interviewed Garza in 1991, when he was among a handful of candidates being considered by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Justice Thurgood Marshall. But Garza then had only three years of experience on the federal bench and his views on many issues were unknown. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas instead.
Garza, who will turn 58 in August, would make history as the first Hispanic ever nominated to the high court.
Garza has developed a reliably conservative judicial record that includes criticism of the Roe V. Wade abortion decision of 1973. In 1997, Garza sided with the majority in upholding a lower court decision that struck down parts of a Louisiana law requiring parents to be notified when a minor child seeks an abortion. In his concurring opinion, however, he expressed doubts about whether Roe v. Wade was well-grounded in the Constitution.
“In the absence of governing constitutional text, I believe that ontological issues such as abortion are more properly decided in the political and legislative arenas,” Garza wrote. “. . . . It is unclear to me that the [Supreme] Court itself still believes that abortion is a ‘fundamental right’ under the Fourteenth Amendment. . . .”*
Edith Hollan Jones
*Edith Hollan Jones, 56, has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans since 1985, having been nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
Jones was born in Philadelphia. She graduated from Cornell University in 1971 and from the University of Texas Law School in 1974. She was in private practice in Houston for 11 years and specialized in bankruptcy law.
Known as a strong and outspoken conservative, she has written opinions that called into question the reasoning behind the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, has been an advocate for speeding up death penalty executions, and is a vocal proponent of “moral values.” She also wrote a 1997 opinion throwing out a federal ban on the possession of machine guns and has been an advocate for toughening bankruptcy laws.
In a recent interview with the American Enterprise Institute, she bemoaned the Senate treatment of several controversial appeals court nominees. “Nominees are accused very unfairly of things that they didn’t do,” she said. “For someone like Judge [Charles W.] Pickering to be called a racist is a vile lie. For someone like Judge [William] Pryor to be attacked on the basis that he is a Catholic and therefore cannot judge cases fairly strikes at the heart of the notion of religious tolerance in our society. And the character assassination of Priscilla Owen reached unconscionable bounds.”*
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070100756.html
Both of these are good candidates. the second risked her own career standing up for two of President George Bush’s Judicial Nominees. At some point, that also has to count for something.
A short reminder, we need to know when people have E-mailed the President and their Senators. We also need people to post witty and intelligent E-mails they’ve written so others can use them. I’ve posted a couple, but I don’t want them to be the only ones here. Please post so other people can use your E-mails, esp. to the ones to the Senators!
Please understand, if we lose this fight, we will have Roe v. Wade for at least a generation more, and that means our society will murder at least another 46 Million babies.
I’m not saying that we can save all of those lives, but at least we can take the steps so that (between this and the next two Supreme Court Justices) we can save at least 3/4 of those lives by returning the debate to states!
That’s the opportunity today! Please Write! Please Post!
Blessed are they who act to save God’s Little Ones. Michael
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