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Originally Posted by flstf
I agree what's wrong with letting them come up for a vote. The case can still be made and debated to vote them out if they are not qualified.
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What's wrong is they will pass guaranteed and everyone knows it.
It will be on a party line vote.
These people just aren't appropriate or qualified for America.
These people are the only qualified individuals Bush could find?
Priscilla Owens
-Enron's political action committee gave Owen $8,600 for her successful Supreme Court bid in 1994. Two years later, Owen wrote the majority opinion that reversed a lower court order and reduced Enron's school taxes by $15 million. Since 1993, Enron contributed $134,058 -- more than any other corporation -- to Owen and other members of the Texas Supreme Court. A study by Texans for Public Justice found that the court ruled in Enron's favor in five out of six cases involving the company since 1993.
-Supported the elimination and narrowing of buffer zones around reproductive health care clinics in Houston.
-Owen's actions in two cases raise serious concerns about the priority she places on the government's responsibility to protect the environment and the health and safety of its citizens. In FM Properties Operating Co. v. City of Austin, Justice Owen strongly dissented from the court's decision to strike down a state law that had been tailored to allow a particular developer to bypass the city of Austin's municipal water-quality laws. The majority pointed out that the law illegally delegated a basic right - the right to pollute - to a private property owner. Owen's dissent was dismissed by the majority as "nothing more than inflammatory rhetoric" thus merit[ing] no response. Parties affiliated with the developer contributed more than $47,000 to Owen's campaign.
William Haynes
-Supports the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens by the Executive Branch without legal counsel or meaningful judicial review.
-Signed off on the legality of withholding Geneva Conventions protections from hundreds of persons detained at Guantanamo, defined as prisoners of war.
-Haynes, as the Pentagon's top lawyer, oversaw a working group that argued that President Bush, in exercising his powers as commander in chief during times of war, is under no obligation to adhere to any rule of law - international or domestic - that bars the use of torture.
-Has been nominated to one of the most influential appellate courts in the country, but he has almost no in-court trial experience, and no direct appellate experience at all.