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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Dear President Obama: Nominate who you want and be prepared to defend him/her
Posted by Jill | 8:03 AM
Because you simply cannot do business with these people, so don't even try:
If President Obama nominates Judge Diane P. Wood to the Supreme Court, conservatives plan to attack her as an “outspoken” supporter of “abortion, including partial-birth abortion.”

If he nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor, they plan to accuse her of being “willing to expand constitutional rights beyond the text of the Constitution.”

And if he nominates Kathleen M. Sullivan, a law professor at Stanford, they plan to denounce her as a “prominent supporter of homosexual marriage.”

Preparing to oppose the confirmation of Mr. Obama’s eventual choice to succeed Justice David H. Souter, who is retiring, conservative groups are working together to stockpile ammunition. Ten memorandums summarizing their research, obtained by The New York Times, provide a window onto how they hope to frame the coming debate.

The memorandums dissect possible nominees’ records, noting statements the groups find objectionable on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, the separation of church and state and the propriety of citing foreign law in interpreting the Constitution.

While conservatives say they know they have little chance of defeating Mr. Obama’s choice because Democrats control the Senate, they say they hope to mount a fight that could help refill depleted coffers and galvanize a movement demoralized by Republican electoral defeats.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Political junkies. Fire up your anger and outrage. There is a SUPREME COURT nomination at stake.

Pure unadultrated bullshit.

Simply forget any nomination. With the Robert's gang, the extra vote will mean absolutely nothing. Three openings might be important, but right now one is a total waste of time

Let the Republicans jerk each other off on how they will block a nomination. Just drop the whole topic. Use your brains, we have other much more important problems than legitimizing a morally bankrupt supreme court.
5/20/09, 8:40 AM  
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