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Originally Posted by AVoiceOfReason
I've already said here that I'm against this nomination. But let's be clear here--a sitting Supreme Court Justice can't help a president keep "his ass covered." She would be one vote of nine, and there won't be anything buried. Issues will be brought out in the lower courts, and dissents filed when the left leaning judges aren't happy with the results. Nothing will be covered up.
Clinton's attempted cover-ups were on the administrative level, not the judicial. He wasn't very good at it, of course, but had he been, matters would not have been before the judiciary.
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Really, one voice on the US Supreme Court cannot change anything????
How about 1 Justice, Clarence Thomas, ordering that a lower court's ruling be stayed? (And yes, stays by 1 Justice are common and can be held for an indefinate length of time, so it is not unrealistic to believe Meirs will be able to help Bush if he needs it by doing such a manuever.)
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Justice Thomas blocks inmate-abortion order
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas late Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge's order that Missouri prison officials drive an inmate to a clinic today for an abortion. Thomas alone granted the stay pending a further decision by himself or the full court.
Missouri law forbids spending tax dollars to facilitate an abortion. But U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple ruled Thursday that the prison system was blocking the unidentified woman from exercising her right to an abortion. An appeals court Friday refused to block his ruling.
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http://www.bradenton.com/mld/mercury...urynews_nation
How about that 1 voice being the deciding factor, already we have one who has been hunting with Cheney, the Chief Justice appointed by Bush (and given Bush's cronyisms one can only wonder what the past between those 2 has been), and we have the hero worshipper.... hmmmmm that leaves 2 voices, I think Bush would have a lock on "covering his ass".
And considering how the 2000 election bypassed Congress and everyone else to go straight to the court (and I am using how they bypassed everyone else not the election itself as the argument) I feel Bush having his grandeur, Napoleanic complexes would make sure whatever he wanted got there.....
So yeah, on the Rove investigations, I think he'll use them to the fullest and knows with her his ass is covered.