Judiciary
After meeting with members of Rhode Islanders for Judge Alito and the Rhode Island Judicial Confirmation Network on Friday afternoon, Senator Lincoln Chafee stated that still he has not taken a public position on how he would vote on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, but that he has 99% of the…
Here’s how to understand the meaning of the term “unitary executive” being bandied about at Samuel Alito’s confirmation hearing. Suppose Congress decides that their campaign-finance laws aren’t being enforced aggressively enough. To step up enforcement, they create a national police force to investigate campaign finance cases, granting it powers equivalent to those of the FBI.…
Most efforts at evaluating the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court have focused on parsing the Judge’s record (too often looking solely towards the outcomes of cases while ignoring the legal reasoning used). Anchor Rising was provided with an opportunity to approach the question of what kind of Justice Samuel Alito would be…
Ed Whelan has highlighted liberal Stuart Taylor’s thoughts on Judge Alito. Taylor continues to be one of the sane voices in the judicial debate, a man whom we can all easily respect even when we disagree with his opinions at time. …Sure, Alito seems a bit to the right of the current Supreme Court’s somewhat…
According to Michael Barone: The political risks of opposing an Italian-American are therefore probably less than in 1983 [when Judge Antonin Scalia was nominated and confirmed]. But they’re not zero. I wonder whether Tom Carper of Delaware (where 7 percent of the population in the 2000 census said they were of Italian ancestry), Frank Lautenberg…
Upon the withdrawal of Harriet Meirs nomination to the Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said: “The radical right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers nomination. Apparently, Ms. Miers did not satisfy those who want to pack the Supreme Court with rigid ideologues.” Well, once again, Senator Reid doesn’t know…
Peggy Noonan has called for President Bush to withdraw his nomination of Harriet Miers (or for Ms. Miers to withdraw herself). While she believes such a move doubtful, she does offer a forecast of what would happen next. The White House, after the Miers withdrawal/removal/disappearance, would be well advised to call in leaders of the…
Rich Lowry nails some of the big issues surrounding the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court. Lowry begins with these words: The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court is foundering, but President Bush is confident that she will be confirmed. Bush thus displays a touching faith in the power of hypocrisy, double…
As most know by now, President Bush has nominated now-former White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Immediately, two memes have sprung up. One is that the President followed the “Cheney template,” by which it is meant that he ended up nominating the individual he had originally tapped to lead the search committee…
…because you won’t find one in Sunday’s Projo from Democratic party chairman Howard Dean. Here is the start of what is supposed to be the substance of Dean’s rant…The consistent mark of Roberts’s career is a lack of commitment to making the Constitution’s promise of equal protection a reality for all Americans — particularly the…
