Archive for May 3rd, 2009
Will Ann Claire Williams be appointed to the Supreme Court?
Here’s someone we’d like to see appointed to the Supreme Court — Ann Claire Williams.
She was first appointed to the bench by President Reagan, then elevated by President Clinton. She’s tough on crime, and if anyone from Chicago is going to be appointed to the Supreme Court, she’s certainly worthy of that seat on the bench herself.
Lawyers we know in Chicago have always spoken highly of Williams.
It will be interesting to see what the current president decides to do, and if he will make Bush’s mistake with Harriet Meyers and attempt to place a personal friend of his on the bench, like Deval Patrick, or if he will try to put someone with University of Chicago connections on the Supreme Court, like Diane Wood, Cass Sunstein, or Elena Kagan.
We feel about Williams the way we felt about Kirsten Gillibrand for the NY Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton — right now, she’s someone being mentioned in a top ten list of possible appointees, but she’s not at the top, just like Gillibrand wasn’t. But, the “top” candidates being talked about are people we just don’t see making it onto the court anymore than we thought Harriet Meyers would become a Justice.
But, we can picture Ann Claire Williams taking Souter’s place, and more or less voting exactly the same way Souter did for many years to come. She’s a pick Republicans won’t have much to complain about, especially considering Reagan appointed her to the bench to begin with, and a pick moderate Democrats will also love. The only people who won’t be jumping up and down for her are the radicals on the Left, of which Williams has never seemed to pay much attention to, and we doubt that would start now.
Justice Williams would be a very good pick. There are other people who’d be good on the Court, of course, but for the moment this is who we think is the candidate to keep an eye on and learn more about.
Do you think John "bathroom hider" Edwards will still get his $400 haircuts in prison?
The Charlotte Observer is following the FBI’s investigation into John “bathroom hider” Edwards’ misappropriation of campaign funds to cover up his affair with Rielle “Lisa Druck” Hunter, and the suspected love child Edwards allegedly conceived with Druck-Hunter.
This all pertains to the bizarre episode the National Enquirer instigated where, for an undisclosed amount of time, John Edwards hid in the bathroom of the Beverly Hills Hilton, crying, while a burly security man rushed to his rescue, Kevin Costner-style, in the middle of the night to protect him from the reporters.
Where have we seen this before, minus the bathroom-hiding, but with presumbably more singing?
“You will always be my bodyguard”, indeed.
SOMEBODY paid to house Druck-Hunter in luxury while she was presumably being pampered to keep her from talking about her affair or pregnancy. In addition to the Wisteria Lane-esque manse she lived in, she was also periodically flown around the country, and to the Caribbean, on private jets, at whose largesse remains to be seen.
A federal grand jury is looking into all of this.
Considering what a huckster Edwards is, and how good he is at lying, they’ve got their work cut out for them.
Even the French say it's a mistake to copy them and make America socialist too
How terrible is the White House’s desire to turn this nation into France, Part Deux if even the French themselves think it’s the worst thing they’ve heard in a while?
Doubleplusterrible, we think.
What happens when an insecure man with self-image and identity problems and only a tenuous connection to American culture and spirit is given the most powerful position in the world?
He does what he’s always done: aspire to be something he is not, and that he doesn’t truly understand, because the thinks the people he believes are cooler and more hip than he is will like him better for it.
Instead, they are laughing in Paris…those that aren’t in tune enough to realize the fall of America will ultimately impact the French as well.
Sunday Open Thread
What’s on your mind this Sunday?
Will people still be cowering in terror from swine flu this week, cursing Mexico, and doing whatever the fear-mongering MSM tells them to do, or will there be a new crisis-of-the-week for everyone to panic about?
Maybe the sky will start falling.
Perhaps elves will be discovered trifling with the alternator on your car.
Maybe HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy really will be nominated to the Supreme Court.
Now, THAT would actually cause US to panic.
As for the rest of it, we think we’re going to head over to Las Mananitas on Halsted for some pork enchiladas because nothing says warrantless panic to us like a delicious lunch of exactly what everyone else is all warrantlessly panicked over.
