Roberts Elevated
I don’t know.
I’m kind of disappointed on this one.
Yeah-naming Roberts for CJSCOTUS is brilliant because the guy is a conservative that they can’t “Bork’-and yeah-Rehnquist was his judicial mentor.
Still-I’ve always thought that you can’t be “Chief” until you’ve spent time as a “Justice”, and was hoping for a meat and bones strict constructionist like Scalia or Thomas.
The Pres will get back in my good graces if he nominates Charle Pickering or better yet-Janice Rogers Brown-to SDO’C’s spot.
He can’t go wobbbly on us now!Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
09/05/2005 at 11:29 AM
Bush kills two birds with one stone. Yeah, it looks like he’s sticking it to Scalia, but what he did here saves yet another confirmation go round. So hurry up W, and nominate somebody else for the original vacancy right quick. And please make that one a hard core, no doubts about it strict constructionist.
I think most Chief Justices have been selected from outside the court, Barb. Elevating an Associate Justice to the center seat is not as common as bringing in an outsider. I didn’t know this either until recently.
Yep, basically the fight over Roberts is over. Oh, the usual suspects will piss and moan but he’ll be confirmed. They’ve been embarrassing themselves with the lengths to which they’ve gone in trying to find some dirt on him and they’re hurting themselves with it. I think that the NYSlimes trying to access the sealed adoption records of his children was pretty much their undoing.
Not true Barb. In the last sixty years, only Rehnquist was elevated to Chief Justice (by Reagan in 1986) after first serving as an Associate Justice for fourteen years, so there is ample precedent in Bush’s nomination of Roberts.
That being said, a lot of people would naturally feel that way, given that prior to this year, there had been no turnover on SCOTUS in ten years.
