The KKK -- At home in the GOP and on the Supreme Court.

[Cyrano]

The Klan never went away. They just put their sheets in the attic and joined the Republican party. And is there any doubt that their sympathizers who never wore a sheet or burned a cross are most likely to be republicans?

We watched Trent Lott slip up a couple of years ago, praising good ole' Strum. But this week's Supreme Court ruling that gutted Brown vs Board of Education, is a giant step back toward Jim Crow, one of our ugliest eras. And I truly believe that if they could find a rationale, the five vote majority on the Court would find a way to once again legalize slavery.

This is the cost of the Dems having not filibustered Alito, or even Roberts. Assuming we can ever get rid of Cheney/Bush, win the White House, and hold majorities in the congress, the first order of business should be impeaching Alito and Roberts for lying under oath at their confirmation hearings. I'm not a lawyer, but they both said they would not overturn "settled law." They have done so, and that looks like perjury to me. It's time to impeach them and throw them onto the dustbin of history.

[TnDem]

1. Filibuster...

A filibuster would have done zilch...nada, nothing to help this situation.

The pugs would have simply invoked the nuclear option and instead of a 60 vote cloture, we would have had a 51 vote majority vote on all further Judicial nominees with NO debate.

If you want good SCOTUS Justices, nominate a Presidential candidate that can at least carry their home state and not have to rely on dimpled chads,

[Cyrano]

3. It's possible the "nuclear option" was a bluff. Would they really want

a future Dem president and senate having that power?

[TnDem]

5. It was not a bluff...

Thw wingnuts had been crying "No more Souters" for the ten years prior to it.

The nookular option was the next thing on the agenda for the pugs had this matter not been "resolved"

[robinlynne]

6. you saying you bought the chad story? really?

[whistle]

2. Oh yes it is all over the five conservative justices including Clarence Thomas

....and his "pubic hairs on his coke can" foreplay ploy! Racism is deep rooted into the Federalist Society where all these cretins are incubated, groomed, conditioned then disguised to be brought out on cue. NO MORE FEDERALIST SOCIETY JUSTICES!

<snip>
S P E C I A L R E P O R T
H I J A C K I N G J U S T I C E

The Federalist Society, a Right-wing network of lawyers, judges and supporters,
is undoing civil rights and other gains made through the courts

By George E. Curry & Trevor W. Coleman
Emerge, October 1999


WHEN BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION WAS BEING ARGUED, a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson suggested that the court should rule against the plaintiffs in the landmark school desegregation case. While making the case for maintaining segregated schools, the clerk sent a memo to his boss saying, "It is about time the Court faced the fact that white people in the South don't like the colored people." That clerk was William Rehnquist, now chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Seeking to put his own ultraconservatives on the Supreme Court with Rehnquist, President Ronald Reagan -- who had appointed more than half of the sitting federal judges by the time he left office -- considered nominating Lino A. Graglia, a controversial University of Texas law professor, as a federal appeals court judge for the 5th Circuit. But the nomination, which had been backed by Attorney General Edwin Meese III, was jettisoned after Graglia acknowledged that he had referred to African-Americans as "pickaninnies." The American Bar Association found the law professor "not qualified" to serve on the federal bench.

Reagan did nominate Robert H. Bork, a former Yale law professor, who was on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Bork had opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, calling it "an unwanted intrusion on the right of individuals to choose with whom to associate." After bitter debate, the Senate rejected his nomination in 1987 by a vote of 58 to 42.

Far from fading into the background, Bork, Meese, and to a lesser extent, Graglia, are key players in the Federalist Society, a powerful Right-wing network intent on restricting the power of courts, often at the expense of African-Americans and other people of color, the poor, women and the disadvantaged.

The organization actively seeks to limit "judicial activism" and reverse Supreme Court landmark rulings since the New Deal, especially those issued in the 1960s and '70s. Special targets include the 1966 Miranda decision that provides certain rights for suspected criminals, the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling legalizing abortion and recent civil rights legislation.

Founded in 1982 by three law students, the Federalist Society has grown into one of the most influential institutions in America. Four of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court -- Clarence Thomas, William H. Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy -- are close affiliates of the Federalist Society. So are Donald P. Hodel, former president of the Christina Coalition, and special prosecutor Kenneth Starr.

The Federalist Society's board of trustees is co-chaired by Bork and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch -- one of the most conservative members on Capitol Hill. Other trustees include former Attorney General Meese, William Bradford Reynolds, who was assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Reagan Administration, sought to have court-ordered affirmative action programs overturned, and C. Boyden Gray, former President Bush's chief White House attorney, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1991.

In a world being reshaped by the Federalist Society, conservative law students have formed chapters on campuses across the nation. After graduation, they clerk for conservative judges and then go on to become high-ranking government officials, partners in major law firms, prosecutors, law school professors and judges at the local, state and federal level. In short, the Federalist Society is on the verge of hijacking the judicial system.

<snip to end>

Former federal Judge Lawrence Walsh puts it more bluntly.

"The impression I have is they are trying to return to the 18th century and undo the work of the Supreme Court since the New Deal," Walsh says. "And I think it is wrong to put someone on the court who has a pre-commitment with a political dogma, whether it's the Ku Klux Klan or the Federalist Society."

-- Additional reporting by Lottie L. Joiner <MORE>

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/hijakjustice.html

[WillyT]

4. Tell Me Again... Who Won The Civil War ???

:shrug:

[spanone]

7. Now, now, they didn't lie, they mis-spoke

:sarcasm:

[Cyrano]

8. Well, one can hope. After all, Scooter Libby "mis-spoke" himself into jail.

[coco77]

9. I was listening to some Repubs on the radio...

saying how the Iraqis need to remove the bad elements out of their country and my mind immediately went to the KKK,Aryan nations, Gangs and republiCONS.