File this under “once bitten, twice shy.” After being burned once by supporting a Bush nominee to the Supreme Court — namely, John Roberts and his vote to overturn Oregon’s physician assisted suicide law — Oregon Senator Ron Wyden appears to have learned his lesson.
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released the following statement today announcing that he […]
The Supreme Court upheld Oregon’s assisted suicide law today, and the issue will most likely be all over the news for the next day or so. What probably won’t get much mention is the lesson that the Court’s ruling should hold for all Democrats, especially Senate Democrats.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., dissenting for […]
Talk about your shotgun weddings. And with half the Senate Dems holding the shotgun.
He’s in. America, meet the man we’re all gonna be living with for the next 30 years or so. We are so fucked. At least that’s what a quick gut-check tells me. Oh well, let’s hope he’s at least gentle about it.
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I haven’t blogged much about the John Roberts confirmation since the hearings wrapped up. I didn’t say anything with Reid announced he’d vote no, or when Leahy announced he’d vote yes. I didn’t even say anything when the wingnuts started making noise that Roberts might not be lean far enough right, because he’d look to […]
I’ve been saying that Dems should vote against Roberts for the Suprme Court, just on the principle that the bush administration shouldn’t get anything out of this congress without a fight, and it shouldn’t get a single Democratic vote out without have to work for it. But after some stuff I heard last night, while […]
I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. I haven’t really blogged much about John Roberts’ confirmation hearing. The two major reasons are (a) I’m no legal scholar and am reluctant to wade into waters that may be over my head and (2) he’s probably going to get confirmed anyway. The best we can hope for is […]
Here’s a novel idea. The John Roberts confirmation hearing is in full swing, and we need Democratic Senators to ask him the hard questions on a range of issues, and to insist on getting real answers. To that end. ActBlue has set up a donations page for the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. So, when […]
It would be pretty easy for John Roberts’ confirmation hearing to be swept off the front page by the ongoing Gulf Coast disaster, and the constroversy swirling around the administration’s handling of the disaster. I even forgot to blog about the hearings when the kicked off yesterday. And it’s likely that the administration doesn’t mind […]
Well, Bush has revealed part of his hand on filling Supreme Court vacancies, with Roberts as the new nominee for chief justice.
Moving quickly to fill the vacancy left by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s death, President Bush on Monday nominated Judge John Roberts to the nation’s top judicial post.
"It is fitting that a […]
I know it’s probably tacky to do this when the man hasn’t even been buried yet, but what am I supposed to do? Just not talk about it for a few days, to a week? I’ll probably go to hell (or would if I believed in one) for talking politics so soon after his death, […]
He’s dead. I just came downstairs from helping the hubby make the bed and found that MadTV was interrupted with a news bulletin on his death.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.
A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his […]