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Bush's Supreme Court Choice
2005-07-19, 6:14 PM #1
I think it was a good decision for Bush to choose Roberts to replace O'conner. Hopefully the senate will confirm him.

discuss.
2005-07-19, 6:15 PM #2
Sure.
2005-07-19, 6:15 PM #3
I think Judge Judy would've been better.
2005-07-19, 6:16 PM #4
I don't know anything about him. More on this tomorrow when I'm not jet-lagged out of my mind.
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2005-07-19, 6:17 PM #5
He looks pretty good, I hope he's good.
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2005-07-19, 6:24 PM #6
Article

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050720/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_bush_53;_ylt=AmpOZRsCqFDAse.rEHMqhPtuCM0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
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2005-07-19, 6:28 PM #7
Originally posted by Shintock:
I think Judge Judy would've been better.

Are you crazy?....


...Judge Mathis is so much cooler...
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2005-07-19, 6:29 PM #8
Judge Dredd!!!
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2005-07-19, 6:32 PM #9
Originally posted by UltimatePotato:
Are you crazy?....


...Judge Mathis is so much cooler...

No, Judge Judy is.

Quote:
From here:

Judge Judy gains in the court of public opinion

Kurt Vonnegut has climbed aboard the Justice Judy bandwagon.

"I'm all for Judge Judy for the Supreme Court," the 82-year-old novelist told me. "I don't want any other judges, just her. She is so fair-minded and so ideally American."

Vonnegut, the author of "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and other best sellers, is joining columnist Richard Cohen - and me - in urging President Bush to consider television jurist Judy Sheindlin to fill one of the vacancies that will be left by the departures of Sandra Day O'Connor and Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

"She represents the authority of the state at its most humane and reasonable," Vonnegut said. "She represents an America that I would like to belong to."

Vonnegut told me he "got hooked on 'Judge Judy'" a few years back, when he was in Northampton, Mass., teaching at Smith College and recovering from the effects of smoke inhalation suffered in a house fire.

"She's a swell performer. But that's just fun. And she is very attracive, spiritually. I like the way she deals out justice."

Vonnegut, a self-described "New Deal Democrat," said he has no idea what Sheindlin's ideology is. "I'd like to hear what she'd have to say about abortion and gay marriage," he told me.

But as for skeptics who point out that presiding over a TV small-claims court is worlds away from sitting on the highest court in the land, Vonnegut answered: "There is no difference. She refers to the law again and again. American law is American law."
2005-07-19, 6:48 PM #10
Kurt Vonnegut is also one of the most sarcastic people in person, ever.
2005-07-19, 6:49 PM #11
:p
2005-07-19, 6:52 PM #12
Eh. He's been someone else's advocate for so much of his career it's difficult to determine his ideology.

That said, I'd like his wholehearted confirmation by the Democrats just to split the Republican party.
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2005-07-19, 6:55 PM #13
Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
I think it was a good decision for Bush to choose Roberts to replace O'conner.



I concur. Looking at his background and qualifications, he does seem like a good pick.
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2005-07-19, 7:30 PM #14
rofl

I don't think it's a good idea to let Bush do anything at all :banned:
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