Um... Just How Close Did We Come To Supreme Court Justice Alberto Gonzales ???

[WillyT]

There's a thought that'll keep ya up at night.

:scared::wow::scared:

[John Q. Citizen]

1. That's a good question Willy, but I just don't recall.....

[DURHAM D]

2. Would that be worse than Thomas ???

Clarence Thomas destroyed the EEOC - his reward was the bench.

[WillyT]

5. LOL !!! - It Would Be "The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations" I Suspect !!!

:shrug:

[EST]

3. I don't think we came very close.

Gonzales was for more useful as AG than he could be as scotus. Gonzales is a lying, murderous pipsqueak who would have been immediately unmasked as a supreme jurist, while the mischief he can wreak as AG is almost unlimited.

[WillyT]

7. From 2005:

Possible Nominees to the Supreme Court

The Washington Post
Friday, July 1, 2005; 11:12 AM

Here is a list of potential nominees for the Supreme Court:

<snip>

Alberto R. Gonzales

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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, 49, has less time on the bench than the other likely Supreme Court candidates but has one crucial advantage: the close friendship of President Bush.

Gonzales grew up as the son of impoverished Mexican immigrants and went on to graduate from Harvard University law school. Bush, then the governor of Texas, hired him as his general counsel and later appointed him to the Texas Supreme Court. Bush brought Gonzales to Washington as his White House counsel in 2001.

The Senate narrowly approved Gonzales as attorney general in February after he faced sharp criticism from Democrats over the role he played in approving controversial detention and antiterrorism policies.

Yet legal experts say that the strongest opposition to Gonzales as a Supreme Court candidate would likely come from the right, due primarily to positions he has taken on issues like abortion and affirmative action.

While on the bench in Texas, Gonzales sided with a majority in a 2000 case allowing an unidentified 17-year-old girl to obtain an abortion without notifying her parents, finding that she qualified for an exception to that state's parental notification law. In a concurring opinion, Gonzales said that to side with dissenters in the case would amount to "an unconscionable act of judicial activism."

Gonzales also testified at his attorney general confirmation hearing earlier this year that he recognized the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion as "the law of the land."

Advisors close to the White House have said that Bush likes the idea that Gonzales would be the first Hispanic justice. (Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, a justice in the 1930s, was of Portuguese and Jewish descent.)

-- Dan Eggen

<snip>

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070100756.html

And this: http://www.slate.com/id/2122293/

And this: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0705-31.htm

And this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3067731/

Just to name a few.

:shrug:

[grateful581]

4. wow thats a scary thought

Supreme Court Justice Gonzo

[Robbien]

6. article: Gonzales Hearing Still Not Producing The Answers Senate Members Looking For

Linda Young - All Headline News Staff Writer

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - With his own job now on the line, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Thursday apologized for the firings of eight federal prosecutors but still maintained that neither he nor any other Justice Department staff member had done anything wrong. Gonzales gave his testimony in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee that is investigating the firings of the eight U.S. federal prosecutors.

As he opened the hearing Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, who chairs the panel, told the panel that there was "a crisis of leadership" at the Department of Justice.

Gonzales also faced bipartisan criticism. In his opening remarks Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told the attorney general that the hearing was for determining if the committee believes that Gonzales should remain attorney general.

Specter said the hearing was the equivalent of a "reconfirmation hearing," the Associated Press reports.

"As I see it, you come to this hearing with a very heavy burden of proof," Specter said.

Specter went through details of various meetings Gonzales attended that dealt with the firings of the eight, questioning Gonzalez's contention that his involvement in the firings had been "limited," CNN reports.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007094720

and the article the AP released starts out

Skeptical Senators Take Gonzales to Task
By LAURIE KELLMAN 04.19.07, 1:28 PM ET





His job in jeopardy, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted Thursday he played only a minor role in the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors. Skeptical senators reacted with disbelief.

"We have to evaluate whether you are really being forthright," Sen. Arlen Specter bluntly informed the nation's chief law enforcement officer.

The Pennsylvania Republican said Gonzales' description was "significantly if not totally at variance with the facts."

In a long turn in the witness chair, Gonzales said that despite initial administration claims that the prosecutors had been fired for inadequate performance, he approved their dismissals without looking at their job evaluations.

Offering an apology to the eight and their families for their treatment, he said he had "never sought to mislead or deceive the Congress or the American people" on that or any other matter.

Gonzales sat alone at the witness table in a crowded hearing room for the widely anticipated hearing. There was no doubt about the stakes involved for a member of President Bush's inner circle, under pressure to resign since the dismissals of the prosecutors.

"The moment I believe I can no longer be effective I will resign as attorney general," Gonzales said after first making it clear he did not believe it had come to that.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/19/ap3631519.html

[terisan]

8. Like the US attorneys that didn't get fired--ones who got on Supreme Court

are doing enough damage.