Juridics USA: Supreme Court Liberals connive to prevent Prez choice for Supremes, after Day O'Conner's resignation

The day Sandra Day O'Conner resigned her position as Justice of the US Supreme Court, far Left activists met in the Senate wing of the capitol to caucus to obstruct the normal process Presidential nomination and Senatorial deliberation. The far Left lobbyists want to dictate the strategy of the far Left Democrats in the Senate, like the outworn Ted Kennedy who departs more and more from rational discourse as he ages into uncontrollable remembrances of what he did to Mary Jo Kopechne, for which many Americans consider him to be a murderer of the hi-est degree, thinly protected by his stature in the Senate. In turn, the lobbyists want the Kennedy Far Left in the Senate to control their own party's behavior (there are some moderates at least in the Senate Democratic group) and thus the lobbyists behind the fartLeft Senators are pushing their party to force Bush to meet with them "face to face" in advance of any nomination, thus to position themselves for making extreme threats and whatever political blackmail they can muster.

The President and his advisors like Karl Rove and Michael Gerson must realize what the face-to-face ploy is all about. It has nothing to do with the Constitution's stipulation of "advise and consent" on Supreme Court nominations. The gambit, of course, is to insist that a moderate be placed on the Court to clone Day O'Conner; but likewise of course, the definition of "moderate" will veer further and further to the Left as the process unfolds.

As a matter of fact, all Bush appointments to the Court will be moderate, according to a different set of values that honours the word of the Constitution more than its "penumbras" and "evanescences" which the Left pretends authorize their imposition of ill-learned experimenters who have no sense of the balance that public justice requires.

It will be most interesting to see who Bush names in this case, and who he will name when the ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist finally lays his burden down. In truth, the reputed conservative (which means in the Court's case "strict constructionist") should have resigned long ago. - Owlb

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