Will it be this fucking wingnut: Edith Jones?

[Goldmund]

TAE: Moral values are important to you. What do you think is the best way to teach them to children?



JONES: I think religion is the best way. If you are responsible to God, no matter what religion you are in, you learn moral standards that transcend the dictates of the law. You show your kids fundamentally what is right or wrong.



TAE: Should tort reform help curb frivolous lawsuits?



JONES: I think that is a very important goal. There was a recent $900 judgment against two teenagers in a Colorado suburb who baked cookies and dropped them off on the doorsteps of their neighbors at night out of sheer kindness. One of the neighbors claimed she got so frightened that there were intruders at her door that she had to go to the hospital the next day. And she sued these girls. Now, if that's not a sign of a system in distress, I don't know what is.



TAE: What are your thoughts on today's process for confirming federal judges?



JONES: It has deteriorated into trench warfare. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason in the strategy used by Democrats to oppose Republican nominees. The process has become absurdly destructive of people's character, and destructive of the public's view of the judiciary. Every time I think it can't get any worse, it does. The process is so contentious and unpleasant now that a lot of very fine people are discouraged from even attempting to apply. I believe that is part of the strategy of the opposition at this point.



Nominees are accused very unfairly of things that they didn't do. For someone like Judge Pickering to be called a racist is a vile lie. For someone like Judge Pryor to be attacked on the basis that he is a Catholic and therefore cannot judge cases fairly strikes at the heart of the notion of religious tolerance in our society. And the character assassination of Priscilla Owen reached unconscionable bounds.



TAE: What is the solution?



JONES: I do not see a real solution in the short term. The ultimate reason why the process is broken, in my view, is because the judiciary has gotten itself too enmeshed in making political judgments. Therefore the confirmation process, as Justice Scalia has pointed out, has become very similar to a political campaign. Until the judiciary rights its approach--until judges go back to interpreting law rather than making law and moral standards--I don't see the process becoming significantly less abrasive.

More: http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18525/article_detail.asp

[Zen Democrat]

1. If it's Jones, there will be a knock-down, drag-out battle.

[Mojambo]

11. I hope it's her

I'm ready (and more importantly) I think the Democrats are ready.

They've done the legwork to establish that they are the reasonable party that is willing to compromise.

A big fight on this one benefits the Democrats.

[MallRat]

2. She's the most strident, extreme right winger out there. It's a lock.

n/t

[GreenArrow]

3. I liked it better a few hours ago

when it was supposed to be Ellie Clampett.

[Canuckistanian]

4. She sounds like a cross between Laura Schlessinger...

and Betty Bowers.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Check this out re. Jones --

Moral conservatives couldn't do any better than Judge Edith Hollan Jones for the Supreme Court seat vacated by retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Judge Jones is considered by many the clear choice in fulfilling President George W. Bush's promise of a Constitution-grounded "strict constructionist."

Just 56, Judge Jones has served twenty years as an appellate judge on the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court. She was appointed by President Reagan in 1985 at the age of 36.

Judge Jones has openly criticized Roe v. Wade, condemns "modish, untested philosophical notions" imposed by the Supreme Court "that would have left the Framers aghast," and believes that the Framers' principles of limited government and personal virtue were derived mainly from the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. In January 2003, she told a University of Virginia audience that the nation's foundational values were Biblical....

***

She is married to a Houston lawyer, Woody Jones, and they have three sons.

http://www.renewamerica.us/news/050710jones.htm

[fob]

6. Is that why they LEAKED the other Edith, to smokescreen when

bush* announces this fucknut they can say look at all this kind stuff that was said about Edith(even though it may have been the other one).

[robertpaulsen]

7. Just google Edith Jones, Roe

And be prepared to :puke:

[Vickers]

8. "transcend the dictates of the law"

She'll fit right in with these anti-American dickheads in charge now.

[whistle]

9. Who is Edith Jones????

<go here>
http://www.edithjonesproject.com/who_is_edith_jones.htm

[Straight Shooter]

10. "... a lot of very fine people are discouraged from attempting to apply."

Well, it's a shame that the process doesn't discourage the a**holes from applying.

[Goldmund]

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