Bush, justices address Federalist Society

[rodeodance]

Source: latimes



Bush, justices address Federalist Society



By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

November 16, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush joined three Supreme Court justices Thursday evening to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group that has had a powerful influence on the law and legal thinking.

The group was organized in 1982 as a legal debating society for young conservatives who saw themselves as outsiders at the liberal-dominated Yale Law School. Its second chapter at the University of Chicago Law School had an auspicious start, since its faculty advisor was professor Antonin Scalia.

But the Federalists are outsiders no more: Membership in the group has been a launching pad for conservatives who aspire to become judges or prominent officials in Republican administrations.

Three of its most prominent supporters -- Scalia and two of his fellow Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. -- followed Bush to the podium to laud the society. "We thought we had planted a wildflower in the weeds of academic liberalism. Instead it was an oak," Scalia said.



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[Joanne98]

1. Oh yeah? We're going to take that oak seed and impeach it!

Bastards!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Hey Scalito... Got Wood?

These creeps are rotten to the core.

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Oak, hell, that's poison ivy.

:evilgrin:

[Supersedeas]

12. a deadly virus called fascism - but code named Federalism in disguise

[Robbien]

4. Those are the guys who promote executive priviledge and immunity

and they are in charge of our Justice system. Scary.

[Xipe Totec]

5. The Oak and the Reed

The oak one day says to the reed:
—You have a good right to blame the nature of things:
A wren for you is a heavy thing to bear.

The slightest wind which is likely
To wrinkle the face of the water
Compels you to bow your head—
While my brow, like Mount Caucasus,
Not satisfied with catching the rays of the sun,
Resists the effort of the tempest.

All for you is north wind, all seems to me soft breeze.
Still, if you had been born in the protection of the foliage
The surrounding of which I cover,
I would defend you from the storm.

But you come to be most often
On the wet edges of the kingdoms of the wind.
Nature seems to me quite unjust to you.
—Your compassion, answered the shrub,
Arises from a kind nature; but leave off this care.

The winds are less fearful to me than to you.
I bend and do not break. You have until now
Against their frightening blows
Stood up without bending your back;
But look out for what can be.

—As the reed said these words,
From the edge of the horizon furiously comes to them
The most terrible of the progeny
Which the North has till then contained within it.

The tree holds up well; the reed bends.
The wind doubles its trying;
And does so well that it uproots
That, the head of which was neighbor to the sky,
And the feet of which touched the empire of the dead.

-Jean de La Fontaine

Translation by Eli Siegel

[muntrv]

6. Memo to scalito: If we went by "original intent," as you staunchly believe,

then Scalito should still be living in Italy and Clarence Thomas should still be a slave. After all, the founding fathers did not envision Italians living in the US and blacks being free.

[muntrv]

7. An oak? Where's a wildfire when you need one?

[NoFederales]

8. Federalists! Scum now, they were scum for the young Nation also. nt

NoFederales

[Zorra]

9. This "oak" is the hanging tree where fascists hung Lady Liberty

by the neck until she was dead.

[Dr.Phool]

10. The Federalist Society should be declared a terrorist organization.

[donkeyotay]

11. Yes, they appointed the Unitary Executive

Who now appoints their members throughout the legal system. Scratching each other's.

[bdamomma]

13. it should be along with the American Enterprise Institute and

AIPAC.