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Chris
Field is Editor of Human
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 Janice
Rogers Brown -- She Must Be a Good Nominee
The nomination of the California Supreme Court Judge
has the Left all twisted...
[Chris Field] 10/25/03
During the
Bush Administration, conservatives have become accustomed to
seeing conservative judicial nominees filibustered, abused,
and soiled at the hand of shrill, vitriolic liberals, particularly
Senate Democrats led by Senators Leahy (D.-Vt.), Kennedy (D.-Mass.),
Durbin (D.-Ill.), and other Leftists.
In fact,
mistreatment from the Left seems to indicate that a nominee
is the right person
for the job.
One of President
Bush's most recent nominees to the Circuit Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia,
Janice Rogers
Brown,
is undergoing such treatment from liberals. Judging by the
following far-from-exhaustive-list of comments from a few
Leftists, she
ought to be perfect for the D.C. Circuit.
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The reason we are here today is because President Bush continues
to nominate individuals who are not qualified for
these positions of trust and who are out of the mainstream
of America for
these lifetime appointments on our federal courts.
The Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)
are here today to announce our opposition to California
Supreme
Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown.
-- Rep. Elijah
E. Cummings (D.-Md.),Chair of the CBC
CBC Press Conference, October 17, 2003
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. . . We firmly believe that she is unfit to serve on the
second most powerful court in the country. Because
her appointment to the D.C. Circuit could deny millions
of Americans the
promise
of justice enshrined in the United States Constitution.
. .
President Bush's nomination of California State Supreme
Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown ensures only
that he remains
faithful to his campaign promise to nominate
men and women in the mold
of Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and
Antonin Scalia. We are appalled. . . .
Justice Brown
is a notoriously conservative lawyer and jurist. . .
. . .
Justice Brown appears to be a jurist on a right-wing mission.
. . . Justice Brown's
entire career shows
that she has no respect
for the federal regulatory process or for
the role
of the federal government whose laws she
would administer, particularly
laws
that address the long-standing problems encountered
by racial and ethnic minorities, women, workers,
seniors, and others.
. . .
--from a
CBC letter to Senate Judiciary
Chairman Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah)
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This Bush nominee has such an atrocious civil
rights record she makes Clarence Thomas
look like Thurgood
Marshall
--Rep. Diane Watson (D.-Calif.)
CBC Press Conference, October 17, 2003
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[T]he President must not be allowed
to place another judge cut from
the same
mold as Justice
Clarence
Thomas, on the
same circuit
from which Justice Thomas was groomed
for the United States Supreme Court.
--Del. Eleanor
Holmes Norton (D.-D.C.)
CBC Press Conference, October 17,
2003
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[H]er judicial philosophy puts
her even further to the right
than the
most far-right
justices
now sitting
on the U.S.
Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia
and Clarence Thomas. . .
.
. . . she would use the power
of an appeals court seat
to try to
erect significant
barriers for
victims of discrimination
to seek justice in the
courts, and to push an agenda that
would undermine privacy,
equal protection
under the law, environmental
protection, and
much more.
. . .
Brown has embraced the
extreme states' rights
and anti-federal-government
positions of
the Federalist
Society . . . .
--People For the American
Way
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Justice Brown has a
lengthy record
both on the bench
and off, and
her record
raises a variety
of concerns
about her
judicial
philosophy and
fitness for a lifetime appointment
to
the D.C.
Circuit.
. . .
Justice Brown's
outspoken judicial
philosophy
is unique. It
raises many concerns.
--Sen. Patrick
Leahy (D.-Vt.),
Hearing on
Brown nomination,
October
22, 2003
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Janice Rogers
Brown is
merely the latest
in
a string
of Bush court
nominees
who seek
to undermine
religious
freedom
by knocking
down the wall of
separation
between
church
and state. She
is unqualified
for
this important
public
trust. .
. .
--Barry
Lynn,
Executive Director,
Americans
United
for Separation
of Church
and State
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President
Bush
is
at it again.
This
time,
he
is looking
to
promote Janice
Rogers
Brown,
a
radically conservative
justice
on
the California
Supreme
Court.
Her
record
makes
her
the
perfect Bush
pick:
she's
anti-choice
and
anti-privacy,
and
she routinely
injects
her
extreme right-wing
views
into
her
judicial
opinions.
--from
NARAL "Take Action" webpage
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Brown,
a radical
right-wing justice
on the
California Supreme
Court, has
shown that
she will
not fully
protect the
right to
choose and
the right
to privacy.
. .
. Further
proving that
she is
hostile to
constitutional rights
like the
right to
privacy, she
has bemoaned
legislators for "handing out rights like
lollipops in a dentist office."
--from
NARAL press
release
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Judge
Brown is
a passionate
and articulate
activist for
an arch-conservative
reading of
the law
and has
interpreted the
state and
federal constitution
in ways
that would
make it
extremely difficult
to enact
environmental, community
and worker
protections. In
particular, she
holds extreme
views about
takings and
property rights.
. .
.
Judge
Brown is
far from
the mainstream
in judicial
temperament. Her
strongly worded
dissents cross
the line
from judicial
disagreement to
arch-conservative
rhetoric.
--from
a Sierra
Club "Urgent Action Alert"
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2003 Human Events
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