tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post112731977690762856..comments2024-03-26T12:23:35.307-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Specter's GallStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1127367411987954372005-09-22T00:36:00.000-05:002005-09-22T00:36:00.000-05:00advice and consent entails the right to provide ba...<I>advice and consent entails the right to provide bad, unsolicited advice,</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, but the senate <I>has</I> no "advice" role in the nomination and appointment of judges. The president is supposed to do that all on his own, and all the senate is supposed to supply is "consent".<BR/><BR/>If you go back to the framers' discussions, it appears that the purpose of giving the senate any role at all, was just in case the president appointed a personal crony who was either a crook or utterly unqualified. The expectation was always that so long as the president picked someone normal, who knew the law and wasn't a mafia consigliere, the senate would consent to the appointment. The idea that a nominee would actually be called to appear before a senate committee, as if they were interviewing him for a job and needed to hear his views, never occured to anyone until about 50 years ago.Milhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350874508580081286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1127349696325664422005-09-21T19:41:00.000-05:002005-09-21T19:41:00.000-05:00One is not amazed at the viper striking at a perso...One is not amazed at the viper striking at a person's breast, but instead at the person's decision to take that viper to their breast. Spector's behavior is perfectly in character, a character which was well known before Bush exerted himself to save the man's political career from a nearly successful primary challenge.<BR/><BR/>I've sometimes wondered if Spector isn't there just to provide the President with a plausible excuse for not delivering judicial nominees who are as conservative as he promised...Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04640945256355962927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1127342126189468832005-09-21T17:35:00.001-05:002005-09-21T17:35:00.001-05:00Justice O'Connor needs to nip this game-playing in...Justice O'Connor needs to nip this game-playing in the bud and retire effective immediately. If she stays on the bench for just part of the coming year, she won't be able to participate in the decisions next spring, anyway.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09626109831176745957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1127342120241667902005-09-21T17:35:00.000-05:002005-09-21T17:35:00.000-05:00This strikes me as a tempest in a teapot. As sure...This strikes me as a tempest in a teapot. As surely as the right to vote entails the right to vote for idiots, advice and consent entails the right to provide bad, unsolicited advice, which I trust President Bush will take for whatever it is(n't) worth.Xrlqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07178228505351262548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1127336878449317042005-09-21T16:07:00.000-05:002005-09-21T16:07:00.000-05:00Actus -- I thought it was rather obvious that aski...Actus -- I thought it was rather obvious that asking a Supreme Court Justice not to resign even after she has already done so, and asking the President not to nominate a replacement, goes quite a bit beyond merely asking the President "to do something."Stuart Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1127334787083887822005-09-21T15:33:00.000-05:002005-09-21T15:33:00.000-05:00"Doesn't this take a bit of gall? "It doesn't take..."Doesn't this take a bit of gall? "<BR/><BR/>It doesn't take that much gall to tell the president to do something. I'd suspect the president gets it all the time.go.123https://www.blogger.com/profile/16583890768238177666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1127325954560943082005-09-21T13:05:00.000-05:002005-09-21T13:05:00.000-05:00Well, yes, I've never heard of a Senator going beh...Well, yes, I've never heard of a Senator going behind his own President's back (Specter and Bush are both Republicans, you know) to ask a Supreme Court Justice not to resign even though she/he has already submitted her resignation. I guess I'm mostly puzzled that the Republicans would allow someone like Specter to chair the Judiciary Committee.Stuart Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.com