20/20 hindsight poll - SCOTUS

[Stinky The Clown]

Poll question: 20/20 hindsight poll - SCOTUS

Who would have been the very worst choice for SCOTUS? We got Alito, but what about the other names floated or named:

[rep the dems]

1. We can't have a guy with no respect for the Constitution in a position

he can hold for the rest of his LIFE. A few years is bad enough. Hence, I voted for Gonzo.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. precisely my thinking.

harry at least apparently read the damned piece of paper, or so she claimed in her "papers" during the fiasco known as her nomination process.

[Throwing Stones]

3. Gonzo, Gonzo, Gonzo

By a long shot. I don't think he ever would have been confirmed, though.

And now, we bid him goodbye.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Actually, my recollection of the time is that he would have been confirmed

He was seen as moderate by most people.

[Ninja Jordan]

5. Yep. He would have gotten through. It was the far righties who didn't like him.

In reality, we come to find, he is a far right ideologue who is incapable of thinking independently.

[Throwing Stones]

8. not by the Senate Judiciary Committee

It was fairly well-known in the legal community that the "opinions" tortureboy wrote for * regarding Texas death penalty cases, while * was gubner, lacked any and all objectivity and showed Speedy's absolute inability to make a legal argument.

Just about every lawyer (left and right) in the country shuddered at the thought of tortureboy being nominated, and I suspect that killed the thought early on and partly lead to the nomination of Frau Blucha (sp?)

[Greyhound]

9. Bleucha(?)

[Throwing Stones]

10. That's the one

I knew I had spelled it wrong when I didn't hear any horses whinnying.

[Greyhound]

11. "He vas my BOYFRIEND!"

:rofl:

[Czolgosz]

6. Roberts = worst, Alito = next worst, Gonzo = third worst, Miers = least harmful. What some fail to

consider is that a competent and successful liar is 100 times more dangerous than an incompetent liar.

Miers isn't sufficiently competent to pose half the threat as Alito who is himself not half the danger to our liberty that Roberts is. Gonzo falls between Alito and Miers in terms of his menace (while he was a judge in the Texas Supreme Court, there were several worse judges than Gonzo, who bore all the ill will that he could muster but who lacked the spite to drive the right-wing agenda home).

[Hosnon]

7. Miers. From what I remember, she completely "failed" her Congressional

test on the Constitution.

Gonzo and Alito both seem to at least know the law.

[johnlal]

12. Alito.

At the time, and now with more evidence looking back, it appears that Miers' nomination was an attempt to put a Bush loyalist on the Court. The move was completely political, and Miers' would have protected the president from upcoming legal problems. The right-wing Christian Republicans helped the Democrats to defeat the Miers nomination. It was my understanding that the argument was that Miers had not come up through the Right Wing grooming process to the bench. To me, this suggested that there are a pool of attorneys and judges who go through a socialization process to subvert the law to Fundamentalist Christian objectives. The core republicans are willing to protect Bush's ass only if they can get a reversal of Roe v. Wade.