| Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| No Joy on the court |
RedState's scoop was wrong (so was the Daily News). ABC News says the SupCo nominee will not be Joy Clement. But the White House has done a good job pulling the string and bone around the track all day for the media to chase after. Conventional wisdom says a woman or Hispanic is a lock. And you thought Republicans didn't believe in affirmative action ... ah, this must be "affirmative access..."
Update: Project 21, an unaligned Af-Am group, is calling for a speedy confirmation. I'm with them in hoping it's both speedy and rancor-free. This will be apostasy to my friends on the left, but let Bush have this one. He's the president, like it or not (and I definitely don't...) give him his friggin' nominee. I'm sure the right wasn't exactly jumping for joy over Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but they let her through. Unless Bush puts up a member of the House of Saud, who's ready to ban women from driving, I say just confirm them and let's move on. Newsflash: even if he managed to please the right and get an Roe-killing majority on the court before his term is out (which I doubt,) the worst that would happen is that the self-appointed culture warriors on the right would be forced to test the desire to outlaw abortion at the ballot box, 50 times -- and they'd lose this as an issue to run on in election after election. Maybe I'm just cranky but I can't get exercised.
Update 2: Well I'll be damned. Bush faked us all out -- he didn't go for the woman (he'll have to deal with Laura on that), he didn't play the Hispanic card (so much for my "affirmative access" jab). He went for the white guy. Go figure.
Roberts sounds like a very smart, qualified guy. He's been on all sides of the SupCo, from clerking for Rehnquist to arguing before the court as a Justice Department litigator and in private practice. So far, the Freepers are undecided. RedState is cleaning up from their earlier predictions. |
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