Re: OT emperor appoints 2nd imperial appointer
- From: "Jeff Mayner" <jeffmayner@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:16:49 -0800
gk1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> kinda circular, huh? they appoint him and he appoints them. with a
> rubber stamp from the imperial senate, of course. LOL he could have
> appointed joe, his bike mechanic, and the senate would have been like
> "well, we're not sure about his legal stature, but oh well, we
> approve."
Only if joe would pass muster with the religous right. If he was pro-choice
then forget about it!
>
> well, now we will see what happens to roe.
>
> G
>
>
> Senate Confirms Alito to Supreme Court By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated
> Press Writer
> 4 minutes ago
>
>
> WASHINGTON - Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. became the nation's 110th
> Supreme Court justice on Tuesday, confirmed with the most partisan
> victory in modern history after a fierce battle over the future
> direction of the high court.
>
> The Senate voted 58-42 to confirm Alito - a former federal appellate
> judge, U.S. attorney, and conservative lawyer for the Reagan
> administration from New Jersey - as the replacement for retiring
> Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has been a moderate swing vote on
> the court.
>
> All but one of the Senate's majority Republicans voted for his
> confirmation, while all but four of the Democrats voted against Alito.
>
> That is the smallest number of senators in the president's opposing
> party to support a Supreme Court justice in modern history. Chief
> Justice John Roberts got 22 Democratic votes last year, and Justice
> Clarence Thomas - who was confirmed in 1991 on a 52-48 vote - got
> 11 Democratic votes.
>
> Alito watched the final vote from the White House's Roosevelt Room
> with his family. He was to be sworn in by Roberts at the Supreme
> Court in a private ceremony later in the day, in plenty of time for
> him to appear with President Bush at the State of the Union
> speech Tuesday evening.
>
> Alito will be ceremonially sworn in a second time at a White House
> East Room appearance on Wednesday.
>
> With the confirmation vote, O'Connor's resignation became official.
> She resigned in July but agreed to remain until her successor was
> confirmed. She was in Arizona Tuesday teaching a class at the
> University of Arizona law school.
>
> Underscoring the rarity of a Supreme Court justice confirmation,
> senators answered the roll by standing one by one at their desks as
> their names were called, instead of voting and leaving the chamber.
> Alito and Roberts are the first two new members of the Supreme Court
> since 1994.
>
> Alito is a longtime federal appeals judge, having been confirmed by
> the Senate by unanimous consent on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of
> Appeals in Philadelphia on April 27, 1990. Before that, he worked as
> New Jersey's U.S. attorney and as a lawyer in the Justice Department
> for the conservative Reagan administration.
>
> It was his Reagan-era work that caused the most controversy during his
> three-month candidacy for the high court.
>
> Alito replaces O'Connor, the court's first female justice and a key
> moderate swing vote on issues like assisted suicide, campaign finance
> law, the death penalty, affirmative action and abortion.
>
> Critics who mounted a fierce campaign against his nomination noted
> that while he worked in the solicitor general's office for President
> Reagan, he suggested that the Justice Department should try to chip
> away at abortion rights rather than mount an all-out assault. He also
> wrote in a 1985 job application for another Reagan administration
> post that he was proud of his work helping the government argue that
> "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."
>
> Now, Alito says, he has great respect for Roe as a precedent but
> refused to commit to upholding it in the future. "I would approach the
> question with an open mind and I would listen to the arguments that
> were made," he told senators at his confirmation hearing earlier this
> month.
>
> Democrats weren't convinced, with liberals even unsuccessfully trying
> to rally support to filibuster Alito on Monday. "The 1985 document
> amounted to Judge Alito's pledge of allegiance to a conservative
> radical Republican ideology," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of
> Nevada said before the vote.
>
> They also repeatedly questioned Alito at his five-day confirmation
> hearing after he would not discuss his opinions about abortion or
> other contentious topics. At one point, his wife, Martha-Ann, started
> crying and left the hearing room as her husband's supporters defended
> him from the Democratic questioning.
>
> "To Judge Alito, I say you deserve a seat on the Supreme Court," said
> Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
>
> Alito's path to the Supreme Court is infused with New Jersey
> connections. Born in Trenton as the son of an Italian immigrant, he
> attended Princeton University. He headed to Connecticut to receive his
> law degree, graduating from Yale University in 1975. His late father,
> Samuel Alito Sr., was the director of New Jersey's Office of
> Legislative Services from 1952 to 1984. Alito's sister, Rosemary, is a
> top employment lawyer in New Jersey.
>
> Alito was not the White House's first choice - or even second choice
> - for the Supreme Court. Bush picked Roberts when O'Connor first
> announced she was stepping down last year.
>
> After Roberts was promoted to the top spot after Chief Justice
> William Rehnquist died, the White House against passed over Alito for
> the vacant seat, instead selecting White House counsel Harriet Miers.
>
> Miers' withdrawal following a barrage of conservative criticism in
> late October finally brought Alito's name to the forefront, although
> he then had to contend with constant references as "Scalito" or
> "Scalia-lite," references to his judicial similarity to Justice
> Antonin Scalia.
>
> "I'm my own person. And I'm not like any other justice on the Supreme
> Court now or anybody else who served on the Supreme Court in the
> past," Alito said at his confirmation hearing.
.
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