Monday, May 04, 2009

Senators Urge Obama to Replace Souter With Non-Judge, Maybe Hillary Clinton

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Senators Urge Obama to Replace Souter With Non-Judge, Maybe Hillary Clinton

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 4, 2009

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- As the discussion about a replacement for retiring pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice David Souter reaches a fever pitch, some senators are urging President Barack Obama to not select a judge for the position. They want a woman and someone outside the judicial realm -- possibly Hillary Clinton.
Souter, one of the five-member pro-abortion, pro-Roe majority on the high court, announced last week that he will step down after the Supreme Court concludes its latest term in June.
Now, top Democrats are giving Obama advice as he begins the process of developing a short list of replacements.

"I would like to see more people from outside the judicial monastery - somebody who has had some real-life experience," Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Pat Leahy told ABC's "This Week" over the weekend. "I think we should have more women. We should have more minorities."
Meanwhile, pro-abortion Sen. Arlen Specter, the former Republican ranking minority member on the Senate judiciary panel, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that he would like to see someone "who has done something more than wear a black robe for most of their lives."
"Perhaps a statesman - or a stateswoman," he added when asked to elaborate.
Some political observers look at the comments and conclude the senators are calling for Obama to nomination pro-abortion Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a former attorney and New York senator, to the high court post.

Should Obama do so, pro-life advocates would undoubtedly launch a significant national campaign against her nomination because of her career of pushing abortions both nationally and on international levels.
Regardless of the nominee he ultimately sends to the Senate, pro-life Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah predicts Obama will "pick a more liberal justice" than Souter, "a pro-abortion justice."
He cited Obama's previously-stated desire for a new Supreme Court judge with "empathy" as code for wanting "an activist" judge.

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1 comment:

Dr. John Maszka said...

Whoever President Obama picks, it should be someone who understands the gravity of the appointment.

I'm conducting research on how American foreign policy affects popular support for terrorism. This research project (RP) involves a worldwide survey to measure popular support for terrorism. It is inspired by the overall abuse of power pursued by the George W. Bush administration precisely at a time of ever-increasing demand for international cooperation and diplomacy. This RP maintains that the Bush administration’s foreign policies of unilateralism, preemption, and military hegemony (commonly referred to as the Bush Doctrine) represent a radical break from traditional American foreign policy. It further asserts a correlation between popular support for terrorism and a strong dissatisfaction with the status quo as upheld by the global hegemonic power.
Even though the Bush administration is no longer in office, this correlation is still relevant today as, without a clearly articulated Obama doctrine as of yet, we have no indication that American foreign policy will change course anytime soon. More broadly, a correlation between oppressive American foreign policy in general and popular support for terrorism would be of great interest to international relations (IR) scholars of all theoretical backgrounds— as America is the global hegemon. And for this reason, American foreign policy has a tremendous impact on the rest of the world. It can be used to secure peace and prosperity in the world (and along with it American credibility and legitimacy), or it can give rise to anti-American coalitions, create inefficiency through a loss of international cooperation, and diminish what legitimacy America may still enjoy as the leader of the international community.
During the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, we witnessed the latter at unprecedented levels. With a new administration in the Oval Office, research of this nature can prove invaluable in championing a more benevolent and multilateral American foreign policy in the future. Finally, measuring popular support for terrorism will afford us the ability to construct a model that demonstrates the demographic composition of a society supportive of terrorism versus one that is not. This model, in turn, should provide a method of measuring and predicting 1) the potential for terrorism in any given society, 2) the direction that acts of terrorism tend to be moving in (e.g. westward, eastward, or remaining static), and 3) broad trends in the support for terrorism, such as whether popular support is increasing among moderates, Westerners, and so forth. The survey can be accessed at

http://www.johnmaszka.com/SURVEY.html

Please take a moment and fill out the survey. The long-term goal of this project is to facilitate a more diplomatic American foreign policy in the years ahead.


Thank you!

John Maszka