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- From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- Subject: Re: Carol Mosley Braun
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.213223.16909@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:32:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.224133.2217@cis.ohio-state.edu> <JOHNCH.93Jan21152948@test22.sun.com> <1jnltuINNjn7@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- In <1jnltuINNjn7@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu>, csmith@cis.ohio-state.edu sez:
- >In article <JOHNCH.93Jan21152948@test22.sun.com> johnch@test22.sun.com (Slam the Crank from Wheezer) writes:
- >>
- >>And as a result, the guy [Clarence Thomas] takes no heat for his
- > incredible statement
- >>that he never had an opinion on Roe v. Wade, which he himself said was
- >>one of the most important Supreme Court decisions handed down during
- >>his life. Come on -- is he lying or unqualified?
- >
- >Point of order. He said he did not feel it appropriate to answer questions
- >regarding Roe vs. Wade as it was very likely that he would be facing cases
- >in regard to it on the court, which is exactly what he should have said.
-
- Point of information: Thomas claimed that he had never *discussed*
- the case at the time it was issued, although he was a student at Yale
- Law at the time.
-
- Besides, this idea that you can't discuss settled precedent is inane.
- _Marbury v. Madison_, _Griggs v. Duke Power_, and _Ashwander_ come up
- all the time in every Court Term. Can you possibly be making the
- claim that nominees shouldn't discuss them? If so, why did Thomas
- (and Souter, BTW) *agree* to discuss these and other landmark
- decisions?
-
-
- >The Senate committee had no business asking the question.
-
- The Constitution says otherwise. Of course, Thomas (or any other
- nominee, Democrat, Republican, Zoroastrian, or agnathous) can decline
- to respond -- at peril, of course, of being rejected.
-
- --
- 797 F. Supp. 186
-
- Mark Eckenwiler eck@panix.com ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
-