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pro-choice ('Roe is settled law') judicial activist with a card-carrying feminist wife.
This is a tremendous victory for the left.

I want someone to quote me in their sig line - Trix

by GussieFN on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 11:46:17 AM PDT
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  As has been pointed out all over the place, any nominee for the appellate bench needs to say a case like Roe is settled law, because they're not supposed to run around overturning precident.
  
  The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.
  
  by DHinMI on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 11:48:48 AM PDT
  
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  - Those Are His Words (none / 0)
    
    If the right doesn't like us calling Roberts pro-choice because he said 'Roe is the settled law of the land,' let them make a huge fuss. If they don't like us claiming his wife as a 'feminist' because she's a 'feminist for life' let them scream and gnash their bicuspids.
    Oh, what glorious thing that would be to behold.
    
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    by GussieFN on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 11:53:45 AM PDT
    
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    - I Don't See Your Point (none / 0)
      
      His words from his previous hearing don't bind to him for a position on the Supreme Court. It's not like they're campaign promises.
      
      The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.
      
      by DHinMI on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 11:57:42 AM PDT
      
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      - My point (none / 1)
        
        has nothing to do with predicting his judicial style, and everything to do with using him as a political football.
        What would the political result all lefties--blogs, pundits, columnists--came out tomorrow with a 'triumph for the left' statement, trumpeting Roberts's pro-Roe statement and his 'feminist' wife and his 'judicial activism'?
        The right would shit seven kinds of brick. They'd try to prove he was pro-life, they'd bray that Bush betrayed them, they'd do all the heavy lifting for us. You want to take the nomination down, that's Step One. You only want to wedge the right, that's also Step One.
        Sadly, nobody left me in charge of Our Unified Voice. Because that's what we need: bizarre schemes. (Though I still say it'd work.)
        
        I want someone to quote me in their sig line - Trix
        
        by GussieFN on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 12:06:19 PM PDT
        
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- Card-darrying feminist? (none / 1)
  
  I don't know if "feminists for life" is really the kind of organization that qualifies as feminist.
  
  by Banana Republicans on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 11:52:38 AM PDT
  
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    twenty years and umpteen quadrillion dollars making 'feminist' a bad word. This is a lovely opportunity to show the country that Good Judge Roberts's wife is a 'feminazi.' They can respond by saying feminists aren't that bad, after all, or by howling: "For life! For life! For life!" Or, optimally, both.
    
    I want someone to quote me in their sig line - Trix
    
    by GussieFN on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 11:55:45 AM PDT
    
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  - Well, now (none / 1)
    
    Feminism is good for everybody, even conservatives. I suspect the Feminist Majority has some.. uh.. serious points of disagreement with Feminists for Life, but surely we all can have some sort of civil dialogue with each other?
    
    on strike.
    
    by daria g on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 11:59:02 AM PDT
    
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    - a civil dialogue? (none / 1)
      
      read their webpage.
      feministsforlife.org
      Their mission is to ban abortion, not to promote women's rights. They are a pseudofeminist group designed to bolster the claim that feminists don't support the right to have an abortion. If you doubt that, go read their website, and post ONE goal that actually helps feminism here which they are in support of.
      
      by Banana Republicans on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 12:21:21 PM PDT
      
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    - Feminists for Life (4.00 / 2)
      
      Is another twist in Orwellian titles to Republican ideas.
      (See "Healthy Forests" and "Clear Skies" Act)
      
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      by VirginiaBelle on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 12:29:43 PM PDT
      
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    - It's a front. It has nothing to do with feminism (4.00 / 2)
      
      by Hartley on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 03:59:44 PM PDT
      
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- You must be joking (none / 0)
  
  You can be certain that Rove & co. have been on the phone with the religious reich leaders assuring them Roberts is their guy, by pointing to his wife's record as a prominent anti-choice activist.
  
  by Hartley on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 03:58:39 PM PDT
  
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- Are you serious?? (none / 1)
  
  Or was that a sarcastic post?
  IIRC, the man has represented Operation Rescue and Focus on the Family in court: OK, so it was a paid gig, but last time I looked, lawyers do choose the cases they take. They adopted rather then try assisted technologies because it's against their Catholic beliefs.
  And I agree with the others. "Feminists for Life" isn't exactly what I call "feminist", having been one for years. Any organization which works against my making a medical decision solely with my doctor and without a paternalistic "Father Knows Best" politician sticking his nose into my business is about as "feminist" as Phyllis Schlafly.
  
  " 'Vox populi, vox Dei' translates as 'How the hell did we get into this mess!?' "---Robert Heinlein (accuracy of quote not guaranteed)
  
  by mirrim on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 07:56:26 PM PDT
  
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- Not quite... (none / 0)
  
  As i understand it: the "feminist" organization his wife belongs to is an "anti-abortion" group masquerading as a feminist institution. In other words, an attempt at co-opting "feminism"
  and using the pre-eminent women's rights movement to oppose women's rights.
  
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  by Shapeshifter on Sat Jul 23, 2005 at 01:29:58 AM PDT
  
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