Here she is........

[Roxy66]

It's sad to think of what this woman will be put through in the coming weeks for upholding the constitution.....what a sweet looking ladyO8) :cry:

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/Courts/district%20court/MI/EDMI/judges/taylor.html

[graywarrior]

1. Yeah, it's gonna get dirty.

[Avalux]

2. She'll be fine. Had to have known the backlash.

I can't imagine this woman making the statement she did without understanding what it meant, and how many people it would piss off. I just hope no one commits violence against her.

[Richard Steele]

3. And the irony is, that she's now in very real danger...

...from the radical extremists who support B*sh.

You know damn well those fascist fucktards among us are already
calling for her death, in the name of "freedom" and "America".

[sgxnk]

23. real danger as in what ?

are u seriously suggesting she is in PHYSICAL danger, or do u mean danger from opposing viewpoints?


the latter, yes. i agree . the former, imo, is not supported by history or evidence. but i don't know if that was the inference

[Catherine Vincent]

24. Yes, she could be in some serious danger.

Bush backers are a hateful bunch and would harm anyone that would go against their hero. You know that!

[sgxnk]

25. no, i don't

and i know you have no evidence to support your assertion

the evidence of incidents of physical attacks on judges based on constitutional law decisions is where?

i have seen plenty of incredibly hateful comments by rightwingers against various judges. i have seen plenty of incredibly hateful comments by leftwingers against various judges too (scalia, thomas, etc.)

that is a far cry from physical violence from either side, based on ideological disagreement

where is the evidence?

judges have made constittuonal law decisions that have PO'd people on numerous occasions. i have yet to see physical retaliation over their case law decisions by political ideologues

dissent is healthy and the american way. it is not the same as violence

[Catherine Vincent]

26. You don't know that?

How odd...

[sgxnk]

27. correct

i don't know that your assertion is true

i do know it's false -

i know what history and the fact pattern supports

it supports anything but your baseless prediction

your statement is supported only by thin air

[Catherine Vincent]

28. Oh really?

"i do know it's false -

i know what history and the fact pattern supports

it supports anything but your baseless prediction

your statement is supported only by thin air "


-------------

You know your postings seem familiar. Would you happen to be a retired old lefty lawyer? do you have the urge to put me on ignore?

[sgxnk]

29. shakespeare

a LAWYER??????????

now *that* is a baseless and terible insult :)

i am definitely not a lawyer

i also have never put anybody on ignore (or killfile from my old usenet days)

egad. lawyer.

seriously, not a lawyer.

[me b zola]

37. That poster seems to be supported only by...

...hot air.

[AspenRose]

31. Senator Cornyn

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26236-2005Apr4.html


Senator Links Violence to 'Political' Decisions
'Unaccountable' Judiciary Raises Ire
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 5, 2005; Page A07


Sen. John Cornyn said yesterday that recent examples of courthouse violence may be linked to public anger over judges who make politically charged decisions without being held accountable.

In a Senate floor speech in which he sharply criticized a recent Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty, Cornyn (R-Tex.) -- a former Texas Supreme Court justice and member of the Judiciary Committee -- said Americans are growing increasingly frustrated by what he describes as activist jurists.

"It causes a lot of people, including me, great distress to see judges use the authority that they have been given to make raw political or ideological decisions," he said. Sometimes, he said, "the Supreme Court has taken on this role as a policymaker rather than an enforcer of political decisions made by elected representatives of the people."

Cornyn continued: "I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. . . . And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence. Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have."

Not only did Cornyn admit there was violence occuring to judges; he seemed to empathize with why people would advocate for violence against "activist" (read: "Liberal") judges.

[me b zola]

36. bullshit--and stop equating the left with the right--because you are wrong

Boo-hoo, cry me a river because you don't like that the left says unflattering things about the 4 fascists on the SC :cry: But do not equate that with threats of, and calls for, physical violence--from the floor of the House, talk radio, and pundits--from the rw wing against judges who uphold the law.


Seems like when you aren't busy bashing good Dems you are busy posting rw talking points. You must be tired from all your busy work.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

38. Red herrings and strawmen get heavy after awhile don't they?

I've yet to hear of a serious threat made against a rightwing judge comparable to what passes as acceptable dialogue on wingnut AM radio and even on the floor of Congress against judges perceived to be liberal.

[Sanity Claws]

40. O'Connor and Bader-Ginsburg spoke about threats

against the federal judiciary earlier this year. Unfortunately, some of Delay's comments and comments by others may be encouraging the lunatic fringe to commit violence.

[EST]

4. A beautiful lady and, from what I've read, a beautiful mind.

Wonder how much boot we'd have to give to trade in a couple of Scalitos for her as scotus justice. Hell I'd trade in all four for one of her.

[lostnfound]

22. I think she deserves some flowers. nt

[cascadiance]

34. Read my mind... Another flower campaign sounds appropriate!

[kentuck]

5. The irony that it takes an older black woman to hold these people...

accountable...

[bananas]

6. one more vote please for the greatest page

[azurnoir]

7. It has already started

You have to scroll down if you can stomache it.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/

[babylonsister]

15. Why go there, really? nt

[azurnoir]

18. Dauo

Reading right wing sites is away of keeping track of the other is doing/saying. Maybe posting it here was maybe questionable, however this one surprised even me, all of those sites did at first, sort of like stormfront lite.

[young_at_heart]

8. Won't other judges say something?

Is she THE only person who can speak out about our imperial president? Where are the others?

[immoderate]

10. I doubt they'll offer an opinion unless the case is before them.

Rendering opinions without evidence before them would disqualify them from hearing a related case. I doubt they'll comment on the case as a matter of form.

OTOH, I figure there will be some judicial reaction if Judge Taylor is improperly targeted for political retribution or personal attacks. Probably from a chief judge.

--IMM

[femrap]

9. She made history today....the first person to tell

* to 'fuck off.'

She knew exactly what she was doing....defending her country, the Constitution and our Democracy. She wouldn't be able to live with herself otherwise.

It has been a long time since I have felt proud of being American....today, I remember what it feels like.

Thanks, Judge.

[Triana]

11. What an impressive background! She's an excellent role model

for women and young girls.

I'm sure they'll harass the crap out of her because she ruled against them. The White House will appeal her ruling and some "non-activist" judge (ie: a judge that will rule the way the GOP wants them to) will overturn her ruling. That, or they'll go whining to their usurping court and they'll overrule it.

[rodeodance]

12. America's savior

[goclark]

44. Wow that is a real JUDGE! What class! nt

[lonestarnot]

13. Wait 'n see. She may be recognized for the modern day heroine patriot

that she is. She followed the law and the law won, yes I know, "but that's not how the song goes." Well I'm going to give it a while. Thurgood Marshall was none too popular with Congress when he established the doctrine of judicial review.


Judicial review
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Judicial review is the power of a court to review a law or an official act of a government employee or agent for constitutionality or for the violation of basic principles of justice. In many jurisdictions, the court has the power to strike down that law, to overturn the executive act, or order a public official to act in a certain manner if it believes the law or act to be unconstitutional or to be contrary to law in a free and democratic society. In some, such as Scotland and also England, the power goes further, and it may be possible to strike down a decision simply because it ignored relevant and material facts.


On edit Anna Diggs Taylor
(1932- ) I salute you :patriot:

[babylonsister]

14. Thank you! She's a star in my book! nt

[Emit]

16. More here...

~snip~

Although Taylor is a liberal with Democratic roots and defended civil-rights workers in the South in the 1960s, people who know her say she will follow the law -- not her politics -- in deciding the case. "She'll rule based on what the law requires, not on what people perceive her biases to be," Southfield lawyer Harold Pope III said last week. Pope is a former president of the National Bar Association, a prominent black lawyers' group.

Pope said Taylor, a former City of Detroit staff attorney who defended Mayor Coleman Young's efforts to integrate city government in the mid-1970s, ruled against Pope and Detroit in 1993, declaring unconstitutional a program that reserved municipal contracts for minority vendors. "She's not going to let anything stand in the way of a proper analysis of the law and the facts," Pope said.

~snip~

Taylor was born Anna Katherine Johnston in 1932 in Washington, D.C. Her father was treasurer of Howard University. Her mother was a homemaker and a business teacher. After the ninth grade, Taylor's parents sent her to Northfield School for Girls in East Northfield, Mass. -- one of the few prep schools that accepted black students -- to groom her for a career.

~snip~

Unable to get a job as a lawyer at New York or Washington, D.C., law firms -- a near impossibility for black people, especially women, in the 1950s -- Taylor turned to the Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Department of Labor. She became a lawyer there with the help of J. Ernest Wilkins, then assistant secretary of labor and the first black person appointed to a subcabinet post. He also was a friend of her father's.

"I'd be unemployed today if it hadn't been for that man," Taylor said in a 1984 interview with the Michigan Bar Journal.

~snip~

In 1964, five months after the birth of the first of her two children, Taylor went to Mississippi to defend civil-rights workers who were jailed for registering black people to vote. The day Taylor arrived, three workers -- James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner -- disappeared near Philadelphia, Miss. Taylor, her brother, another law student and Detroit lawyer George Crockett Jr., who eventually became a Michigan congressman, drove to the Neshoba County Courthouse to inquire about the missing men.

Sheriff Lawrence Rainey Jr., who was implicated and later acquitted in the men's deaths, was less than helpful, Taylor recalled. As Taylor and the group walked back to their car, they were menaced by a crowd of angry white people who shouted racial slurs at them. "We were afraid we were going to be killed," Taylor said.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/NEWS05/608070381/1001/NEWS

[aaronbees]

17. A true patriot ... bless her :) eom

[emanymton]

19. Do Not Personalize It. Law Is The Story, Not The Judge!

Making this story about the person, means one is fighting on GOP terms. Law is the story.

Stick to the issue of the law. GOP cannot win when one sticks to issue of the law!!

[magellan]

20. Absolutely!

You're spot on, emanymton, and I hope more people read your post. The Repugs would love to turn this into a debate over the judge's credentials because that distracts and detracts from the important thing: the law.

[Pacifist Patriot]

30. I wish I could nominate your post.

[Quantess]

43. She did her job. She upheld the Constitution and the Law.

The part that makes her exceptional is that she didn't back down in the face of animosity and potential backlash. She is brave.

[Philosoraptor]

21. Hail...!

[bdamomma]

32. a smart sweet looking lady

[tsuki]

33. Thanks for the site. nt

[lvx35]

35. I'm not too worried about her.

Even if the worst were true and she risks being hurt. Disobediance to tyranny IS obediance to God, a patriot has nothing to fear from injury or death.

[gully]

39. An American Heroine.

eom

[Subdivisions]

41. If she's as tough a woman as

my grandmother, the king will be left shaking in his boots.

Love ya, Gramma!

[spanone]

42. She was a judge when Stooge-ident was still a cokehead.

She's seen these kinds of creeps before.

Go!!!! Your Judgeship!

[nam78_two]

45. A toast to her :)

:toast:


(Michigan :woohoo: Michigan :woohoo:)