[lit-ideas] Re: was that a slap in the kisser?
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:11:19 -0700
Ursula, I am to take your reply to mean that I *didn't* miss anything here?
That Billy Bob John Roberts really was promoted from a possibly unqualified
candidate for justice to a possibly extremely unqualified cj, without even a
whimper from the Dems? Realize, please, I posted in all seriousness, living
in the conservative sticks as I do.
Carol
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From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: was that a slap in the kisser?
> ...and the youngest cj in 200 years or something. He could be there for
> forty years or more...not that I'll still be paying attention, but...
> Ursula
> getting older by the minute...
>
> Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
>
>>Friends, I need your help. No doubt I missed some fundamental step in the
>>controversial issue of Bush's Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts. As I
>>recall, John Roberts's judicial career was rather scanty, and so Dems were
>>sending out petitions asking fellow Dems to file a request through FOIA to
>>let Congress and the little people see John Roberts's opinions.
>>
>>Then, suddenly--or so it seems to me--John Roberts was no longer Bush's
>>nominee as Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement, but Bush's nominee for CHIEF
>>justice.
>>
>>Am I mistaken in assuming that the chief justice is a more important and
>>traditionally more significant role that that of a regular ol' lifetime
>>bench-sitting Supreme Court justice? And am I mistaken in thinking that
>>when Bush upped the ante, he was slapping Congress in the face? ("You dare
>>question my nominees? Take THAT!")
>>
>>Was this discussed anywhere? Suddenly, or so it seemed, my lefty
>>legislative connections stopped e-mailing me about that FOIA request.
>>Instead, John Roberts--shades of Tim Robbins' _Bob Roberts_--was voted in
>>as chief justice of the US Supreme Court. I keep looking for commentary by
>>pundits, but nada.
>>
>>Did I miss something? Is this all a joke?
>>Carol,
>>stymied in Fresno
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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