Democrats oppose Janice Rogers Brown because she's black. One cartoon on Blackcommentator.com shows President Bush introducing Brown to Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, with Bush saying, "Welcome to the bench, Ms. Clarence — I mean, Ms. Rogers Brown. You'll fit right in!"
Let's see, what do those four have in common? Two secretaries of state, a former general, a former professor and a Supreme Court justice ... What's the common thread? I know there's something — but what is it?
There's a whole array of groups opposed to Brown: People for the American Way, the National Women's Law Center, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Feminist Majority, the Aryan Nation and so on.
But their actual objections to Brown are somewhat opaque. The Web page of "People for a Small Slice of the Upper West Side Way" contains a lengthy diatribe on Brown's nightmarish extremism while managing never, ever to give one specific example. In fact, if you take out "Janice Rogers Brown" and replace it with "Tom DeLay," it makes just as much sense when you read it.
This is what we get by way of explanation on the horror show that is Janice Rogers Brown:
— "ideological extremism"
— "aggressive judicial activism"
— "even further to the right than the most far-right justices"
— "prone to inserting conservative political views into her appellate opinions"
— "many disturbing dissents"
— "a disturbing tendency to try to remake the law"
—"extreme states' rights and anti-federal-government positions"
— "working to push the law far to the right" |
