Courting trouble
Hope you are well-rested from the Memorial Day weekend. Lots on the docket — literally. Obama’s SCOTUS pick is widely rumored to be revealed sometime this week:
In a C-SPAN interview that aired this weekend, Obama said he hoped for hearings on his eventual nominee in July, followed by a final confirmation vote before Congress recesses in August. Given his schedule this week — including a trip to Las Vegas and Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday — speculation is that the president could make public his choice early Thursday or Friday.
The Washington Times has questions about short-lister Elena Kagan. Not the first time we’ve seen soft-on-terrorism machinations by an Obama leftist:
As the Wall Street Journal’s “Political Diary” reported May 21, Ms. Kagan was in the middle of Clinton White House deliberations that put a kibosh on legal action against a group of eco-terrorists in Oregon who were blocking some legal logging operations.
To quote from a House task force investigation in 1999, “these ‘environmentalist’ protesters erected barricades and other structures (out of timber) in the roadways and in the forest; they dug trenches and deliberately washed out the roadways in several areas, polluting the waterways downstream with runoff; they polluted the area with human waste; they built ‘booby-traps’ of trenches and sharpened metal spikes designed to maim intruders or damage vehicles; they chained and locked themselves to buried cement structures; and at least one protester was heavily armed.”
The Forest Service and local law enforcement, with approval from the FBI, the local U.S. Attorney and federal marshals, were ready to move in against the demonstrators. Then, on June 12, 1996, a high-level group of White House officials, including Ms. Kagan, met and ordered that the arrest plans be aborted.
The House task force focused most on allegations that Ms. Kagan, then the domestic policy aide and associate White House counsel, had failed to investigate suspicions that a particular administration employee had leaked law enforcement plans to the eco-terrorists. Such a failure to investigate an illegal leak would have been a dereliction of Ms. Kagan’s duty.
It’s more important to know Ms. Kagan’s stance on the bigger question of whether to abort the arrests and the role of political considerations in the decision. It was an election year for President Clinton, and environmentalist groups were a key part of his coalition.
Speaking of leftists, the Left Coast is bracing for a ruling on Prop. 8. I’m sure the opponents of California’s traditional marriage ballot measure will conduct themselves with all the civility, decency, and restraint of a Perez Hilton no matter how the verdict turns out. Which is to say: Gird your loins.
The decision is expected at 10am and will be available here.
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Yes, very well rested, hope the same for you.
Don’t forget to give us a heads-up for your FNC appearance this week. I’ll be traveling a lot the next few weeks and would like to set the DVR before hand.
Guess I’m just old fashion. I thought we were a nation of laws, not men (or women).
MM
bad link…
should be courtinfo.ca.gov
I just hope the Norks don’t blow off any more nukes today and interrupt Obama’s fundraising junkets.
It’s pretty obvious to N. Korea that we have a paper tiger in the White House, but it doesn’t negate the damage he can do on our court system! Loin are properly girded.
Expect the most hideous person possible to be named to SCOTUS. Expect the Republicans to do nothing to oppose it.
Should Kagan be nominated, it would be fair to ask her about her role in eco-terrorist situation. More broadly, she should be asked about following existing law and enforcing it. Whether she accepts that there are unjust laws and her thoughts on the matter.
I am not hopeful, because the Senate too often gives speaches and think they are asking questions. The Senate more often wants their views known, vice finding out about the nominee’s veiws.
Questions should be 50 words or less, then sit back and listen.
Is Kagan empathetic? I’m surprised Jamie Gorelick isn’t in the running. She seems to pop up everywhere a liberal activist is needed in an administration.
Nominee to be announced at 10:15 today.
Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court
Sotomayor according to GMA right now…..Good Lord B0 is as dumb as I think he is.
Looks like its Sonia Sotomayor.
Morning Joe is reporting Sotomayor. They also reported that she has diabetes and smokes.
She also has an empathy that is a mockery of the role of SCOTUS.
Waiting on commentary of how moderate Sotomayor is…God help us all. It just keeps getting worse.
This pick is worse than I thought he would do first time. And I am sure all our RINO’s will go right along with it.
I hope you’re wrong about the RINOs JDinTx…..
Have to mention that hearing Geraldo gushing over her on Fox and Friends made me ill. Very ill.
No surprise – it’s the two-fer quota pick.
WASHINGTON — On the verge of choosing his first Supreme Court nominee, Barack Obama has already provided a profile of the person he is likely to pick: an intellectual heavyweight with a little “common touch,” someone whose brand of justice means seeing life from the perspective of the powerless.
That quality — Obama calls it empathy — is a huge factor in picking a successor to retiring Justice David Souter.
What a farking lying sack of sh!t obuma is. Empathy????? seeing life from the perspective of the powerless?????
So obuma is looking for someone who will protect the rights of the unborn AND force the doctor that performed a late term abortion to now try to save the life of that child after it is born??????
So does she have empathy for unborn children?
I didn’t think so.
So much for Empathy
So we’re losing a white male libby whole lied to Bush Senior about his views and gaining a female Hispanic libby. Nothing to see here. At least she won’t have to lie to get the nomination.
Judges need empathy? I thought they were blind to emotion and ruled thus?
Sotomayor, huh? A female of Puerto Rican descent. Here’s how her confirmation hearings will go…
Some Republican — what are your views on abortion?
Oblahblah’s teleprompter and his complacent media stooges — Obviously, Some Republican is a raging Latino-hating bigot and a mysogynist to boot. Off with his head!!!!
Should be fun…
sotomajor isn’t this the intellectual dwarf that instead of basing her decisions on the rule of law bases them on her feelings. dumbing down the courts is what liberals do best. pretty soon all liberal appointees will be protected under the americans with disabilities act for lacking brain cells.
This is getting O.L.D. The Judges couldn’t possibly go against the vote on this one again. I certainly hope this is the end, I’m tired of voting on it.
We are getting rid of one jerk and getting another jerk. So what’s new? The RINOs in the senate will vote as usual, with the democrats. Nothing in this government changes except the size.
I dont care if its is a purple headed peope eater, can the nominee interpret Constitutional Law? Do they have a track record of properly doing so? I dont even care if they agree with my politics, I just want someone who wont kill the constitution with perspectives from other countries, with condescending bias, with or the shifting subjectivity of this self-absorbed culture.
No surprise here. It’s the second pick that worries me. All we are doing is swapping a flaming lib with a flaming lib.
Why doesn’t Ofool choose a Hollywood actor who played the role of a lawyer to be the next SCOTUS appointment? Isn’t someone from the left coast due for promotion?
Sotomayor is main stream compared to the liberals Obama could have considered. You should be grateful that Obama is not doing what Bush did, picking the farthest out possible. With 4 certified wingers on the court, you have little call to complain about someone closer to the middle.
Nope…they’re gearing up for putting it on the ballot again. Hopefully, I’ll be living in NV by then, and won’t have to worry about this, or income taxes any more.
LGM said: I want racists on the bench.
Its often fun to see what the liberals call “main-stream.” As I dont know anything about Sotomayor, I will look forward to reading her credentials for at least a little amusement. Thanks lgm.
Anything to get the voters to keep filling their car tanks up with gas to get to the polls. I’d be looking for the next fuel tax increase before election day.
They just can’t take NO for an answer. What part of “the people have spoken” — twice — did they not get?????
You think Obama’s friend Bill Ayers would be to the left of her?
Doesn’t matter anyway since he’s a white male.
You are really funny in your own sick little way lgm.
The Middle you say? You do live in the Far Left of Neverland don’t you? Hope you had a nice weekend Tinkerbelle.
Racists on the bench? I ran track in high school-maybe he’ll appointed me!
For a creative writer possession of the “truth” is less important than emotional sincerity. -G. Orwell
NK luanching two missles today didn’t seem too important to ObDumbo, had to get his round of golf in ya know…the boy’s been working so hard, or is that partying so hard. Expensive parties at the White House thanks to the tax payers…and not his favorite citizens the one’s on handouts. What a disgusting POS OhDopey is, com on 2010 elections.
happy_mama, I don’t say this to be contrary, ODopey is not dumb, but he is ultra left wing and un-American no doubt. He and his libturds are doing exactly as they want or should I say what G. Soros wants.
Sen. Kyle made a threat yesterday to filibuster any far left wing nomination, well, here’s his chance, let’s see if he can walk the walk, we all know BS is cheap and for sale.
rightisright….you’re correct. I just was hoping that if the GOP were what it SHOULD be – then this would be a dumb move cause we would put up a great rationale for why to not confirm her. Ah well – I suppose I should have said the GOP are the dumb ones….
Barricades and other structures out of timber. Kinda humorously sad. Or sadly humorous.
I would be more interested in knowing how many of her majority rulings in her appeallate court have been overturned by SCOTUS. Wouldn’t that be a good measure of where she stands in her judicial skills?