Mike,
fyi, her name is JANICE Rogers Brown.
Jason Smith | Homepage | 10.27.05 - 11:06 am | #

Ok, so she's happens to be both black and female. But is that really related to whether or not she would be a good justice? Are those two factors things that should really matter?
Jaxebad | 10.27.05 - 12:13 pm | #

Thanks, Jason. Corrected.
mcconnell | Homepage | 10.27.05 - 3:27 pm | #

I admit I did wonder why Bush picked Miers. Hmmmmm. Gotta think on this!
Sherry | 10.27.05 - 3:45 pm | #

The old "rope-a-dope" strategy.
mcconnell | Homepage | 10.27.05 - 5:06 pm | #

I don't know about you all but I wish Sandra Day O'Connor didn't have to retire. Oh well.
Amy Kurz | 10.28.05 - 11:39 am | #

Well, if you want activist conservative willing to ignore judicial precedent and legislate from the bench, then Janice Rogers Brown is definitely your woman. Californians were subjected to her barely cogent opinions for years.

So much for the conservative vogue of preferring strict constructionists.
Kvatch | Homepage | 10.28.05 - 5:15 pm | #

"If you have a problem with that law, change the legislature. But in my job, I have to decide what the law says, and stick to the law. It's not my job to change the law." - Janice Rogers Brown

Coming from her doesn't sound like a judicial activist compared to what some judges (or even certain mayors) in America have been doing as of late making their own laws along the way. However, Janice Rogers Brown had this to say, "`If our hands really are tied, it behooves us to gnaw through the ropes," in reference on not being bounded by the Supreme Court precedence. Yet, we have states trying to pass laws on allowing medical marijuana *ignoring* the Supreme Court decision on medical marijuana.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/0...ical.marijuana/

http://www.aclu.org/court/court....?ID=18409& c=286

So, what *IS* your problem then?

The only "barely cogent opinion," according to you, Kvatch, was when she wrote the majority opinion upholding an amendment to the California Constitution prohibiting affirmative action for women and minorities and dissented from an opinion striking down a parental consent law for abortions.

Her opinions and actions were more Libertarian than not.
http://www.constitution.org/col/ ..._jrb_fedsoc.htm

And yet, she's in the 2nd highest court of the land, the United States Court of Appeals Judge.
mcconnell | Homepage | 10.28.05 - 8:56 pm | #