TAKE HIM, PLEASE!!!!!!
Get him outta this state!
"Activists yearn for 'true liberal' justice; Hope Obama can deliver an anti-Scalia" by Robert Barnes, Washington Post | July 21, 2008
WASHINGTON - It could be seen as the sincerest form of flattery: Ask some activists on the left the kind of Supreme Court justice they would like to see a President Obama appoint, and the name you hear most is the same justice they most often denounce.
They want their own Antonin Scalia. Or rather, an anti-Scalia, an individual who can easily articulate a liberal interpretation of the Constitution, offer a quick sound bite, and be prepared to mix it up with conservative activists beyond the marble and red velvet of the Supreme Court.
Some have even mentioned Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for the role.
NOPE!!!!
Don't want to see her on the Supreme Court.
Leave her in the Senate where she is one of hundred and can't do much harm!!!!
Harvard law professor Lani Guinier hopes to get scholars, as well as judges, to rethink the role of a Supreme Court justice, a role she describes as "the justice as a teacher in a national seminar, an educator."
Yeah, to HELL with the LAW and CONSTITUTION, 'eh, prof?
"They're not just making laws and delivering those tablets from Mount Olympus," Guinier said. "The project of being a Supreme Court justice is also a project of being an important citizen in a democracy."
Well, can't really get too much more important than a justice of the USSC!!
What the fuck is this little left fascista talking about?
Just apply liberal orthodoxy no matter what, 'eh, Lani?!
While Guinier said she would not necessarily argue the next president should nominate a politician, she said it was important to "make the court more democratically accountable."
"I think Hillary Clinton would bring to the court a range of experiences that the court doesn't presently have access to," she said.
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Just wondering where the LAW and CONSTITUTION fits in to all of what she is saying.
Sounds like she thinks the court should be a POLITICAL TOOL!!!!
As for the other candidate, TAKE HIM!!
Please, Obama, get him the hell out of this state!!!
"Speculation swirls around a Patrick appointment" by John C. Drake, Globe Staff | July 21, 2008
Speculation that Governor Deval Patrick could wind up in a Barack Obama presidential administration has been rife, and lately political and legal observers are pointing to the Supreme Court as a potential destination for the Harvard Law grad and former Justice Department official.
Legal blogs have been spreading Patrick's name as a potential Supreme Court pick for at least a year. In recent months, both The New York Times and The
Probably means he isn't anywhere close to getting the job then.
The NYT and WP reported it, huh?
Bay State lawyers said they have heard the talk, but one local legal observer, David Yas, publisher of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, said the governor might have some fence-mending to do on his home turf if he were to accept a call to the lofty bench.
Michael Ricciuti, a former prosecutor who worked with Patrick at the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow in the 1980s and who last year was appointed to Patrick's Anti-Crime Council, said the idea of a Justice Patrick was floated among colleagues early in his legal career.Ricciuti, who now practices in the Boston office of the law firm K&L Gates:
"One of the senior partners at Hill and Barlow said years ago, before Deval considered running for office, that he was a guy you would expect to see on the Supreme Court. He was very good with the law and very good on his feet."
He certainly fooled the good citizens of Massachusetts (yours truly included).
The backing of the legal community in his home state would be critical to any Supreme Court confirmation process. But there's been frustration with the amount of time Patrick has taken to make some judicial appointments and with his perceived lack of attention to lawyers' pet issues, including court-appointed attorneys and courthouse conditions.
"Lawyers were really behind him, but since he's taken office, lawyers would give him a C-minus or D-plus," Yas said.
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And if the LAWYERS -- those who liked him and were for him -- give him a D, then you KNOW what he gets from me!!
A BIG, FAT, FUCKING F, you wasteful piece of elite shit!!!!
But please, please, TAKE the SC JOB, guv!
Just GET the HELL OUT OF Massachusetts!
