SCOTUS IONUS ROBERTUS

[erikred]

If you wanted to take the heat off of Rove long enough for people to forget that you said that anyone involved in leaking the name of a CIA operative to the press would be fired, surely you could not have chosen a more controversial method than to nominate to the Supreme Court a practicing Catholic and arch-conservative with outspoken views against the right to abortion and the rights of private citizens to sue the government to prevent the wholesale destruction of mountain-tops in the pursuit of coal.

Short of nuking Iran, of course.

Comments

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

I don't think that one opinion written on behalf of a superior constitutes an outspoken view against the right to abortion. I think this nomination is a tricky one as Schumer noted, because this fellow hasn't written a helluva whole lot on his person views; instead, he has been doing client advocacy. Give it a few days for the political machine to run him through the shredder and then I think we'll have more informative data.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the abortion stuff doesn't bother me half as much as the environmental stuff.

[tagryn]

Would a non-practicing Catholic be better, then?

I thought we put the days of automatically disqualifying Catholics behind us when JFK was elected. Its not like we're talking a guy who's an active member of Opus Dei - at least, I don't think he is.