Judge Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. has just been confirmed to be the 110th Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Congratulations to you Justice Alito!
It is a great day for conservatives who have fought so long and hard to return the SCOTUS to an Originalist view of the Constitution.
The final vote was 58 for, and 42 against.
Hugh Hewitt has put up a poll on the President’s nomination today. Click here to cast your opinion on Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
This morning President Bush nominated Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to be the next Associate Justice to the Supreme Court.
This is an outstanding choice, and we congratulate the President on his choice. He has kept his promise to appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. His nominee deserves an up or down vote by the Senate, and the nominee deserves to be treated with the respect he has earned.
The extreme left has already begun their attack. The best way to insure that Judge Alito is confirmed quickly and decisively is to insure that a Democrat filibuster never see the light of day.
The following is the contact information for the Republican members of the gang of fourteen:
Senator Warner E-Mail Contact
(202) 224-2023
Senator DeWine Senator DeWine’s Website
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Fox News, and CNN are reporting that Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to become a Supreme Court Justice.
Here is a copy of her resignation letter on National Review.
As we stated here, we have a process, God is watching, and we trust in Him.
It has now been five days since President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court of the United States. Much has been written and said about his choice both for and against. Many on the right who are not pleased with his selection have pointed to her lack of a record on the major conservative issues of our day. Those who have chosen to defend his selection are accused of using the argument of trust to defend the President’s decision.
Thomas at Red State has written a compelling argument against Ms. Miers in his article, Thirty Pieces of Silver. Thomas cites three reasons for his support of the Republican Party during the past thirty years. Two of the reasons he has supported the party have already been shattered, fiscal responsibility, and less government regulation on all of our lives. The final reason for his support (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
Main Stream Media as well as the blogosphere has been buzzing since President Bush announced his nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court yesterday morning. Already more has been written and said than any normal person could possibly read or absorb.
We don’t claim to be the brightest bulb on the christmas tree, but we do try to apply some common sense when addressing issues such as a Supreme Court Nominee. You can read any article in our Saturday Evening Judicial Review Post category on your left and will soon discover how seriously we take this subject.
The stakes are high, and the nominee if confirmed, will sit on the court for the rest of her life. There are many conservatives who have raised questions and expressed doubts about whether Harriet Miers should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Rush Limbaugh stated yesterday that this (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has passed away from complications with thyroid cancer. He was eighty years old.
He will long be remembered for his conservative views and his determination to adhere to the US Constitution. His legacy is that he was a judicial originalist who led in the fight to strike down any law or ruling which did not comply with the original intent of the written Constitution.
Thank you Mr. Chief Justice for your long years of service and hard work.
Democrats are at a loss again in trying to determine how to approach Judge John Roberts’ Senate Judiciary hearings which begin in two weeks.
The New York Times reports in a piece by David D. Kirkpatrick entitled, Senate Democrats Are Split on Tactics for Questioning Roberts (registration required) on the struggle in the Senate Democrat caucus. Here is the dilemma they are facing according to this article:
“Officials of the groups have warned Democrats that if Judge Roberts becomes a Supreme Court vote against their causes – for example, in a New Hampshire abortion rights case expected to be decided before the 2006 elections – they will hold accountable any senator who votes to confirm him. “I think it is a big problem for pro-choice senators if they vote to confirm Judge Roberts and he votes to uphold the New Hampshire law,” said Kate Michelman, (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
The Washington Post story we related here yesterday, has all the earmarks of being a plant.
We believe the article was published on purpose to stir up the liberal fringe base of the Democratic Party. The response was swift and certain. The Washington Post has published another article today which reveals just how tight the leash is on Democrat members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today’s article, Democrats Feel Heat From Left On Roberts , exposes a different Leahy and Kennedy than was referenced yesterday. Here is a portion:
“The response was quick and pointed, as two key senators unleashed their sharpest criticisms yet of Roberts and sought to assure activists that the battle is far from over.
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democrat, said in a statement: “Those papers that we have received paint a picture (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
The Washington Post reports today that Democrats concede the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the United States Supreme Court. In their article, Roberts Unlikely To Face Big Fight they report the following:
“Democrats have decided that unless there is an unexpected development in the weeks ahead, they will not launch a major fight to block the Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., according to legislators, Senate aides and party strategists.
In a series of interviews in recent days, more than a dozen Democratic senators and aides who are intimately involved in deliberations about strategy said that they see no evidence that most Democratic senators are prepared to expend political capital in what is widely seen as a futile effort to derail the nomination.
Although they expect to subject President Bush’s nominee to tough questioning at confirmation hearings next month, members of the minority (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
NARAL’s latest attempt to smear Judge John Roberts and to deceive the public about his stance on violence is demonstrated for us in their despicable lie being put forth in a television ad will not succeed. The following are just a few of the links to articles in print, and on the blogosphere which have exposed the lie, and are linked here for you to peruse.
Radio Blogger describes how CNN takes money to run a complete lie of a commercial spot. Generalissimo speaks his mind:
“Go back to a week ago, when conservative musk ox Bob Novak walked off the Inside Politics set after saying B.S. on the air. He was suspended by CNN for his profanity. I put it to you. What is worse? Saying B.S., or taking money to run a special interest hit piece that everyone knows is B.S?”
Chariman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter has definitively gone into the Republican In Name Only category or RINO for short. Conservatives have long suspected that such was the case as evidenced by the huge outcry over his blunder following the 2004 election when he thumbed his nose at President Bush during his victory statement. See this Fox News Story, dated November 5, 2004. The statement came very close to costing the Senator his chairmanship then, and it is evident that it should have.
Senator Specter has once again joined ranks with the Democrats as related by the New York Times, in this story, Panel Chairman to Press Roberts on Cases. (registration required) The following is what he had to say today:
“In a three-page letter to Judge Roberts, Mr. Specter raises pointed questions about two recent court decisions invalidating legislation Congress passed (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
Judge John Roberts has filed his reply to the Senate Judiciary’s lengthy questionaire. You can download and read them from the Center For Individual Freedom.
The following is an excerpt from his reply as quoted on the above site:
“It is difficult to comment on either “judicial activism” or “judicial restraint” in the abstract, without reference to the particular facts and applicable law of a specific case. On the one hand, courts should not intrude into areas of policy making reserved by the Constitution to the political branches. As Justice Frankfurter has noted, “Courts are not representative bodies. They are not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society.” In our democratic system, responsibility for policy making properly rests with those branches that are responsible and responsive to the people. It was precisely because the Framers intended the judiciary to be insulated from popular political pressures (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
The Center For Individual Freedom has an excellent suggestion page for those want to help in getting Judge John Roberts confirmed to the Supreme Court. (HT to Confirm Them)
Their request is to, Send a letter of support for Judge Roberts’ Supreme Court nomination to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The following are their suggestions which should be implemented immediately:
“The White House and Senate leaders have repeatedly told CFIF that the most critical thing organizations and individuals can do to help with Judge Roberts’ nomination is to send letter of support to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
If you’re able to send a letter of support, it’s critical that the Judiciary Committee receive it as soon as possible.
Here are some basic instructions for preparing and sending your letters in order to make sure they are properly received:
1) Write a persuasive, professional letter (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
Ed Whelan over at Bench Memos has an optimistic view of the leftist strategy in an article entitled, Our Allies on the Left. He first outlines their possible strategies for obstructing the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court, then demonstrates the one they adopted, which eventually will help conservatives. Here is a portion:
“The third course—whether it deserves the label of “strategy” is dubious—that the Democrats have in fact adopted is one of using document demands and other maneuvers to try to delay the Senate’s confirmation of Roberts, in the hope that ammunition to use against him will develop in the meantime. This strategy gives every promise of backfiring. Set aside for now whether the White House has adopted a coherent position on which documents from Roberts’s past service in the executive branch should be made available. It now appears that these (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)
