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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Just say no

Look who Bush wants to put on the Third Circuit.

Give me a break.

Posted at 2:12 PM | Permalink

Comments (18)

Never heard of him. What's wrong with him?

Posted by butch | July 21, 2007 2:41 PM

I think you just answered your own question. What qualifications does he have to be a federal appeals court judge -- other than the fact that he's a staunch Republican?

Posted by Jack Bog | July 21, 2007 2:45 PM

Folks could say the same about Diarmud O' Scanlain. What's your point?

Posted by Nonny Mouse | July 21, 2007 3:05 PM

You folks just keep making them for me.

Posted by Jack Bog | July 21, 2007 3:09 PM

You could say all of that about just about everybody who has ever been appointed.

Posted by Zeb Quinn | July 21, 2007 3:33 PM

There's that Bush spirit of excellence talking.

Posted by Jack Bog | July 21, 2007 3:39 PM

In his defense, he has practiced in BOTH federal AND state court. That's like, at least two totally separate bodies of law. Or at least two separate buildings. Of course, I would have put him on the D.C. Circuit to help with that rehearing of Murphy.

Posted by Ted | July 21, 2007 4:03 PM

He writes well. And has integrity!

Posted by Jack Bog | July 21, 2007 4:05 PM

Have you delved into the qualifications of some of the yahoos Ted has appointed? Obviously a stellar resume' is not a prerequisite to be appointed to the bench.

Posted by butch | July 21, 2007 4:43 PM

Butch, you seem to have a problem with this concept: This is not a comparative post.

From here on out, let the record state that whatever garbage comes from Bush, Butch says that the Democrats are just as bad, if not worse.

Given that global comment, we won't be needing your individual ones.

Posted by Jack Bog | July 21, 2007 5:21 PM

And I stand by all the yahoos I appointed!

Posted by Ted | July 21, 2007 5:59 PM

Whether they lived in their counties or not!

Posted by Jack Bog | July 21, 2007 6:02 PM

History is usually a predictor of the future. In his short, lamentable history, Bush has appointed one right-wing idealogue after another. No stretch to predict the same of this guy.

Yeshiva College? I have to admit I've never heard of it. What branch of Judaism is it associated with?

Posted by Oscar | July 22, 2007 11:42 AM

Geeesh. Rough crowd today.

No greenie extra credit for being a sticker driving member of the Nature Conservancy? What if it's adhered to a Prius?

I'll bet he never even joined a whites only country club.

I guy can't get a break on this blog.

Posted by Mister Tee | July 22, 2007 2:26 PM

Generally speaking Jewish Republicans are rare, so I doubt he's some right-wing nutjob. That said, I don't know where you're going to get judicial nominees, unless you take them from the ranks of attorneys. Better ideas welcome, but that's far more work then just blindly criticizing I guess.

Posted by John Fairplay | July 22, 2007 8:03 PM

How about someone with judicial experience, or at least some legal experience beyond being a team player at a couple of nondescript corporate law firms? This guy is the Harriet Miers of Judaism.

Posted by Jack Bog | July 22, 2007 8:06 PM

Yeshiva College (the men's undergrad program of Yeshiva University) is a fairly prestigious school, actually. Yeshiva Univeristy is consistently ranked in the top 50 Universities by USN&WR, and has a very good reputation for its undergrad and various grad programs.

I'm not sure what that says about this guy, other than that he's most likely Modern Orthodox (think Joe Lieberman), as that is the University's guiding philosophy. Modern Orthodox Jews do tend to be more conservative than other Jews.

Posted by WJ | July 23, 2007 2:51 PM

Put him on the 9th Circut with the rest of those oft overturned moonbats...

Posted by HMLA267 | July 23, 2007 2:56 PM

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