Could Bush appoint the first African American female to the Supreme Court?

[fujiyama]

This administration has done a great job with window dressing - appoint some blacks, hispanics, and Asians to some high posts - and claim that the GOP is a party of tolerance.

Well, it's a clever trick on the part of the GOP. Unfortunately though, if minorities (mainly poorer hispanics and blacks) fall for it, the consequences will be dire - possibly staggering economic and social mobility for decades.

Here's the profile of one woman that I predict Bush will nominate. It will throw the Dems into a bind that should not exist - simply on the basis of race, many will feel almost obligated to vote for her.


People can kiss the idea of the "living wage" goodbye if there are more Thomas and Scalia clones, because the minimum wage in itself will be declared unconstitutional.
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"Three candidates recently renominated by Bush for positions on the federal appellate courts are sympathetic to the ideas of the Constitution in Exile movement. In addition to William Pryor, the former attorney general of Alabama whom Greve praises, there is Janice Rogers Brown, a justice on the California Supreme Court and an outspoken economic libertarian. An African-American and a daughter of sharecroppers, Brown has been promoted by many libertarians as an ideal Supreme Court candidate. Known for her vigorous criticism of the post-New Deal regulatory state, Brown has called 1937, the year the Supreme Court began to uphold the New Deal, ''the triumph of our socialist revolution,'' adding in another speech that ''protection of property was a major casualty of the revolution of 1937.'' She has praised the court's invalidation of maximum-hour and minimum-wage laws in the Progressive era, and at her Senate confirmation hearing in 2003, she referred disparagingly to ''the dichotomy that eventually develops where economic liberty -- property -- is put on a different level than political liberties.'' "
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/magazine/17CONSTITUTION.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all&position=

[izzie]

1. Do we have one that fits into the bubble yet?

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[Spinzonner]

2. Does Ann Coulter do Blackface ?

[MurrayDelph]

7. She could

after all she "does" female.

[housewolf]

3. You can be sure

that there will be charges that we are racist and sexist, that we are hypocrits for saying that we support affirmataive action and equal rights but opposing this black woman - the sex card will be played and the race card will be played - it'll be horrible...

I read all 9 pagaes of the NY Times magazine article on the "Constitution in Exile" folks - what an eye-opener!

[Disturbed]

4. Ex CA Supreme Court Judge Janice Rogers.

I saw her hearing for Fed. Judge nomination. She is a nut case. If you think Scalia is wak you should have heard her answers and mostly non-answers.

[fujiyama]

5. .

[Still_Loves_John]

6. Its not to get black votes

When they appoint black judges, or have a random black guy in the audience behind the president at a town hall, its not for black votes. Sure, they don't mind making some inroad there, but basically they understand that the black vote is never gonna really swing their way as a demographic. The token black republicans are there because white suburbanites don't want to vote for an openly racist party. As long as they see some black faces, they can justify their Republican votes.