Comments on: “Justice” Garza?

By: Joseph Harder

Joseph Harder — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:42:10 +0000

Your last mailing on Garza fairly dripped contempt(rigid Roman catholic..family loan shark offices,Opus dei,etc.)
Garza was, in fact an UNPAID ethical/legal advisor to Santa Rosa childrens hospital,and for an order of Catholic nuns.His father also organized Baseball and Basketball games to raise money for local charities.
Garzas record at Notre Dame was excellent..deans list, BA with honors in political science

By: jillstanek.com

jillstanek.com — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:13:00 +0000

Anti-Gonzalez Hispanic Supreme candidate

Conservatives oppose Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez as Supreme Court justice candidate due to his anti-Roe history. But there is another Hispanic who would do: Emilio Garza, a federal appeals judge from Texas. Read about him here, here, here, here,…

By: jillstanek.com

jillstanek.com — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:10:44 +0000

Anti-Gonzalez Hispanic Supreme candidate

By: randolph fuller

randolph fuller — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:38:05 +0000

Emilio Garza still lives in San Antonio, Texas and remains unmarried. He was in a long engagement several years ago toa white woman, but she backed out at the last minute. His family ran a chain of low-income neighborhood loan shark offices. He was in a silk stocking old-line San Antonio law firm because of his Notre Dame degree. His addition to the Court wouldl bring it itx first member since Thurgood Marshall who has ever tried a jury case. While with Clemons, Knight he did most of the work for the insurance company that represented Santa Rosa hospital, involving mostly medical malpractice claims. He would be a decidedly rigid Roman Catholic voice on the Court. If he is not already a member, Justice Scalia would likely invite him to join Opus Dei. Randolph Fuller

By: Jonathan Bunch

Jonathan Bunch — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:07:20 +0000

Jim,
Do you have the bill number etc. for the legislation you mentioned?

By: Jim S

Jim S — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:02:55 +0000

A perfect example is a law recently passed by the legislature of Kansas. It added many requirements to abortion clinics, claiming to be doing so in the name of the health of the women who went to the clinics. The Democratic governor said that she would veto it unless they made the regulations apply to all clinics that performed minor surgery, not just the abortion clinics. They refused, revealing for anyone who had any doubts what the real issue was and she did veto it. They couldn’t come up with the votes for an override.

By: Alan K. Henderson

Alan K. Henderson — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:48:54 +0000

I gotta wonder about his 14th Amendment credentials if he supported the constitutionality of FACE: the nominal protections in FACE apply solely to reproductive health service providers (shouldn’t the term be “antireproductive health services?”) and places of worship, and not to any other institution. So I can do stuff during an auto plant strike that I can’t do at a church or abortion clinic. (The use of vague terminology in the law – “intimidate,” “interfere” – also raises red flags.)

By: raj

raj — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:36:03 +0000

I actually do wish they would overrule RvW. It’s not an issue for me (I’m gay) but it is a major distraction. Get rid of it.
I’m also a MA resident, so it won’t be an issue for me.
But, let’s get something–straight. If someone wants to outlaw abortion, the outlawing should include everyone involved. Most of the rhetoric regarding outlawing of abortion relates to jailing of doctors. They seem to eschew the jailing of the women who would be undergoing illegal abortions. And the impregnators. And the people–usually men–who are paying for the abortions. Consistency would demand that all of them be thrown in jail. Not just the doctors.
The Republican federal legislators seem to limit their venom on the doctors. To me, that is hypocritical. There are a number of actors in the abortion process, and the anti-abortionists appear to want to exonerate most of them out of hand.
BTW, this is not an issue that is foreign to me. My mother in law had several pre-Roe abortions at the behest of her husband. Fortunately they allowed my spouse to live. And, fortunately, the person who conducted the abortions did so carefully enough that she is still alive.

By: RightPundit

RightPundit — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:57:41 +0000

Background on Judge Garza

Joshua Claybourn at In the Agora has a good background post on Fifth Circuit Judge Emilio Garza, a short-lister to replace Justice O’Connor. Joshua observes:
If there’s one thing that sums up Judge Garza’s jurisprudence, it’s respect for states…

By: The Politburo Diktat

The Politburo Diktat — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:51:50 +0000

Sandra Day O’Connor Retires

Being a swing vote, the nomination for her successor may be more controversial than the replacement of Rehnquist (if he were to retire). The Dems might be inclined to go along with a conservative nominee to replace a conservative justice, but as O’Conn…