Bush nominee Janice Brown is the ULTIMATE activist judge

[BurtWorm]

According to the Society of American Law Teachers. When you read their comments in a letter they sent in February to Arlen Spector and Patrick Leahy urging them not to confirm her, recall the bullshit DeLay and the religious right have spouted over the Schiavo case and about the evils of an "independent judiciary" disrespecting the "rights" of the legislature.


http://www.independentjudiciary.com/resources/docs/SALT%202005%20brown%20opposition.pdf

<<Justice Brown has evidenced a profound disrespect for and distrust of legislative bodies and the legislative process. It would be peculiarly ironic if the Senate were to consent to her nomination, for her record makes clear that if she were to serve as a federal judge, she would be quick to vote to invalidate acts of Congress that did not accord with her economic and political views. She has attacked the acts of Congress that made up the New Deal, stating that
those regulatory and protective statutes "inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality." She has denounced the Supreme Court's decisions upholding major New Deal legislation, calling them "the triumph of our socialist revolution."
These views would be particularly damaging on the court for which she has been nominated, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, because it hears many cases involving challenges to acts of Congress and regulations implementing them.

<<a. Justice Brown's Hostility to Government.

<<A central thread in Justice Brown's work is a general hostility to government, and a rejection of the notion that government can and should ameliorate the burdens that life imposes on many people. She has repeated this view in several speeches, saying, e.g., that:

<<in the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery. And we no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant
senior citizens.


<<She maintains that:

<<Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase. . . . Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war on the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

<<In her dissent in San Remo Hotel L.P. v. City and County of San Francisco, Justice Brown denigrated democracy and the democratically-elected legislature accountable to the electorate, stating that the legislation at issue required that a property owner in San Francisco "must use that property according to the preferences of the majorities that prevail in the political process -- or, worse, the political powerbrokers who often control the government independently of majoritarian preferences." >>

[louis-t]

1. Oh, but according to the pubbies "she's highly qualified"

maybe she should quit her job. wouldn't want to be part of da evil gub-mint.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

2. ONe of her proponents was on the radio

last night on Warren Olney's "To the Point" talking about how qualified she is. He opened by saying she was the dtr of a sharecropper. I started talking back to the radio at that point and didn't stop until the show was over . I think his name was Truman - he was playing the victim role - the "poor conservatives" can't get their nominations approved. COnveniently omitted that 205 were approved

[BurtWorm]

5. The wingers believe that her being a sharecropper's daughter is key

to any appeal the Bushists should make to the American people on her behalf. That's the human mask they believe sufficient to hide the cold-blooded radical right-winger underneath.

http://www.independentjudiciary.com/news/clip.cfm?NewsClipID=306


Then, in August, a group called the Congress of Racial Equality announced that it would air television advertisements in John Edwards' home state of North Carolina, encouraging the Democratic vice presidential candidate to support the conservative -- and controversial -- Republican justice.

The ads referred to Brown as "a black role model" and "an American success story" and asked Edwards and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry to "stop blocking" her nomination. More importantly, the position taken by CORE directly contradicted other civil rights groups, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Congressional Black Caucus, that have sharply opposed Brown's nomination.

The ads put Brown back in the limelight and amounted to an opening salvo in the renewed fight over Brown and President Bush's nine other filibustered judicial nominees. Both Democratic and Republican activists predict that the nominees will become political cannon fodder in the battle for the presidency. Along that line, they expect Republicans to pressure Democrats by bringing the contentious nominations back up for a Senate vote before the Nov. 2 election.

[goodboy]

3. she sould be disbarred. what an evil woman...(nt)

[FreedomAngel82]

4. We embrace slavery?

WTF?!