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Oct 03, 2005 22:59


If you don't watch Supernatural on Tuesdays and/or like Arrested Development, then please check out My Name Is Earl.  Its rather like a white trash version of AD, and is quite funny.  Its on NBC 9/8 Central, after most folks in the flist watch Gilmore Girls.

Not much to say about tonight's tv except PB rocked!  Scott Biao was too funny & is ( Read more... )

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hockeyvaughnfan October 4 2005, 06:15:04 UTC
Regarding the Harriet Miers situation - the thing that completely shocks me is that someone is being put up for a place on THE most important court in your country and yet they have never even been a judge! How is that able to happen? I know over here there's no way you get to be a judge in the House of Lords (our equivalent to your Supreme Court) unless you're a judge first.

It just seems to me personally that no matter how distinguished a legal career you have had, you really should have at least some judicial experience before being able to do such an important job. But that's just my little opinion and what do I know!! LOL!

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lady_m2835 October 4 2005, 15:46:14 UTC
Ya now her lack of judicial experience is the least of my problems with her. And I find lefty grousing about that particular thing to be funny. Earl Warren, who was unquestionably the most important Chief Justice of the 20th century, had no judicial experience when he was nominated by Eisenhower. He was the Govonor of California. NOMINATE ARNOLD! JK! I don't care for a lot of the things he presided over, actually its not so much his court, I agree with Brown v Board and some of the other stuff his court did, though I disagree with some of it too. But that court was what introduced the concept of judicial legislating to the SCOTUS. Which is what conservatives bitch about so much.

Really the practice of elevating folks from a lower court as common only really started with Reagan, so its a pretty recent development. And not one I have a problem breaking.

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hockeyvaughnfan October 4 2005, 20:59:36 UTC
Indeed from my reading today I've found out that about 20 SC judges (including Renquist) were appointed without previous judicial experience, now it still seems an odd thing to little old me, but hey! it obviously has worked in the past so no reason it can't work again.

As for the politics of the situation, I don't have an opinion as I'm too far away to know all the facts. The only thing I feel strongly about that often comes up is that abortion should be a woman's right to choose and shouldn't be an issue decided by anyone else, but that is just my own personal opinion on the issue *smiles*

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lady_m2835 October 4 2005, 21:39:11 UTC
And there you touch one of my nerves. I'm pro-choice, I generally agree with the abortion laws in your country in fact. When I refer to the era of judicial activism that the Warren Court initiated, the abomination that is Roe v Wade is exactly the sort of horrific judicial decisions I was referring to ( ... )

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jenah October 4 2005, 21:51:03 UTC
I was surprised to see him nominate a non-judge. I really was. I have "My Name is Earl" DVR'd.
I'm already jealous of the Sarah-icons you're using. But I have warned her of this.

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lady_m2835 October 4 2005, 23:07:42 UTC
Like I said to Gem above you, that's not what bugs me. A couple of the people I listed aren't judges either. Its that she's not a constitutional scholor, pondered the big questions of our time in that context for most of her professional career.

I just think he could have done better, and won.

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jenah October 5 2005, 22:42:23 UTC
Did his nominee get shot down and I missed it?

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