Conservative Voice: Edith Clement Pro-Killing, Not Good for Supreme Court

[Goldmund]

Edith Clement is being touted as proper and clean for Supreme Court appointment. Not if the pro-lifers have anything to say and do about it.

She has stated that the United States Constitution permits the right to have an abortion and that "the law is settled in that regard."

"The thought of Clement on the bench also has eased fears among abortion-rights advocates. She has stated that the Supreme Court, 'has clearly held that the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution includes the right to have an abortion' and that 'the law is settled in that regard.'" — Fox News, July 19, 2005

Nix on Clement.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=6992

[Supersedeas]

1. Orin Hatch....the WH has a make-up date for you upon Rehnquist retirement

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. If that is true, fine by me.

Considering we're not going to get a liberal on the bench, this might be the best we can get.

That said, it's always a crap-shoot how any nominee will actually perform while in office. They tend to get a little independent once inside.

[Raiden]

3. Gosh I hope so, however

she is apparantly a super-corporatist --- I'm just as concerned about that, maybe moreso... Corporations already have too much power

[Goldmund]

4. Yes

The GOP is a coalition of fundies and corporatists. She is definitely a nod to the latter -- while it is the former who are foaming at the mouth expecting "payback".

[norml]

5. Counterpunch: Laura's Justice? Meet Edith Brown Clement

July 19, 2005

Laura's Justice?
Meet Edith Brown Clement
By JOSHUA FRANK

Washington is abuzz with speculation that Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Edith Brown Clement is to be President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, which the White House has announced this evening during a televised address at 9pm EST.

Pro-choice advocates will likely be relieved if Clement ends up being the nominee, as she has said on several occasions that she believes the Supreme Court has already spoken definitively in favor of abortion rights.

Judge Clement is supposed to be one of the few potential Supreme Court candidates on Bush's short-list that would have a speedy confirmation process. Many top Democrats, including Harry Reid, speak highly of her. She's had only a few controversial decisions to her name, but the few she has ruled on are quite telling about her penchant for justice.

Take a case last January in which Clement blocked a jury award for Rickey Brown who had been injured working on an offshore Texas oil-rig. Brown injured his back in the incident, and because he had not told his employer, Parker Drilling, prior to his being hired that he had previously been treated in an emergency room for a back injury (which had no relation to his injury incurred on the job), Clement felt that the company owed him nothing for injuries suffered while working for the drilling company.


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http://www.counterpunch.org/frank07192005.html

[southernleftylady]

6. pro killing? so is bush.. a perfect match nt

[YDogg]

7. If this is true ...

... and not a smokescreen.