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Great writing Boadicea
Nice piece of work and a very entertaining read.
However, we do diverge slightly.
Filed by Boadicea on August 10th, 2007
I have a confession to make.
I used to think John Cornyn was okay for a Republican. I grew up in AZ with Republicans like Barry Goldwater and Paul Fannin (okay, yes, and Evan Meacham, but nobody liked him by the time we got to know him) . These were Republicans we could fight like hell with and still respect as basically decent human beings.
I thought John Cornyn was one of those when he was Atty General. I didn’t know at the time about his brush with the soon to be infamous Jack Abramoff.
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In 1999 the manipulation of the original act begins and can be accessed by clicking this link.
The point being, Ambramoff's money and influence covers both sides of the aisle.
With
Junior John, he has never been a good guy; but he always twirls the
policy and influence (that he controls) to project an image of goodwill
and honesty. A false image, but a believable image if one can buy the
outer shell without any research or due diligence to discover the
reality (reasoning) of his actions.
In Saldano v State, Cornyn confessed error to achieve a GVR and get it back
to Texas
Certiorari Granted—Vacated and Remanded
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> No. 99–8119. Saldano v. Texas. Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Motion
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> of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted.
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> Certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded for further
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> consideration in light of the confession of error by the Solicitor
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> General of Texas.
claiming that he had been denied due process of law because his race and ethnicity were improperly used to support a finding of future dangerousness during the punishment phase of his trial.
The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari. Before the Supreme Court, the Attorney General of the State of Texas (Junior John) assumed representation of the State. 1 The Attorney General confessed error in Saldano’s sentencing and declined to raise Saldano’s procedural default as a defense. The Supreme Court vacated the judgment against Saldano and “remanded to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas for further consideration in light of the confession of error.” Saldano v. Texas , 530 U.S. 1212, 1212 (2000). 2
Cornyn's Confession of error in the US Sup Court (Saldano v. State) is made
out to present the image that Cornyn stood up for Civil Rights. Junior John's PR
team takes the opportunity and flaunts the confession of error as a defense of civil rights, "The Texas solicitor general, John Cornyn, is to be praised for the confession of error, for his review to find other such cases, and for his position that it was "inappropriate" and "improper" for the state to urge jurors to consider race and ethnicity in determining a criminal's "future dangerousness.
On remand to the CCA the court found that "evidence regarding the correlation of race and
recidivism did not constitute fundamental error and that "the State's
confession of error in the Supreme Court of the United
States is contrary to our state's procedural law for presenting a claim on
appeal, as well as the Supreme Court's enforcement of such procedural law
when it is presented with equal-protection claims."
Saldano v. State, 70 S.W.3d 873, 891 (Tex. Crim. App. 2002).
First, in seeking the death penalty, prosecutors sometimes overlook glaring illegalities.
"courts, especially state courts, are too often willing to overlook even obvious constitutional flaws when reviewing death penalty cases." And if they are "willing to overlook even obvious constitutional flaws and glaring illegalities when Prosecuting & reviewing death penalty cases." What about the rest of us?
Filed by Boadicea on August 10th, 2007
Then he went to the Senate, and whatever good sense he’d been gifted with at birth evaporated from exposure to corruption and ambition. Box Turtles were no longer safe in their shells, but were enlisted in the war against marriage equality.
Junior
John was appointed to the Senate (originally) which allowed him to gain
name recognition and gain favor from sycophantically serving the
extreme right wing and their agenda. In the war against humanity with his immigration policy.
While now, trying to renege on certain policy making attempts to build
a wall along our whole Southern Border that he was absolutely
promoting, is he not now claiming he never supported it and that
National Policy never supported it. Then he flips to a fence and
finally to a fence in certain areas. Junior John remains against
amnesty. Junior John voted against granting amnesty to 12 million
immigrants who already reside within our borders and who for the
majority are productive human beings who supply a labor niche we depend
on. ,
Is Junior John saying WATT ever it takes to get re elected as we approach an election?
He wont back up his words. "If all we need is for Junior John to "put in a good word" for things to get accomplished, then he is the roadblock.
Junior John is the roadblock to the VA Hospital.
Junior John is the roadblock to Amnesty for 12 Million human beings.
I
cannot envision Junior John compromising his racist hater vote
demographic for middle ground with respect to the amnesty issue. IMO he
identifies with the Smith County mentality and this mentality (not
limited to Smith County) is where Junior John is firmly rooted.
How about putting a good word in for Ramsey Muniz?
In the war to educate our youth, Junior John voted against funding
Junior John voted against renewing the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides health insurance for the children of working families who can’t afford private coverage but don’t qualify for Medicaid.
In the war against Gangs Junior John comes to my city
Corpus Christi and acts like it is his hard work that brings a federal
grant when in reality the Federal Grant comes from the hard work of
community leaders and citizens. Selective information sources have been
identified. Thanks guys I will take this in consideration in the future.
But this is Texas, and we’ve all heard about how Republicans rule in Texas. I thought this was as good as it was going to get.
Then, when Abu Ghraib Gonzales was up for confirmation as Atty General of the United States, I decided to write my United States Senators about my concerns. I didn’t think that an apologist for torture who described international treaties as “quaint” was someone who could be trusted with the Constitution.
I got back a form lecture about how Box Turtle John’s Best Friend Forever, Alberto Gonzales, had pulled himself up by his immigrant bootstraps (which somehow got attached to George W. Bush’s coattails) and those of us who objected to this gifted (if tiny) one’s ascension from Presidential toady to Atty General were being a little bit anti-immigrant and racist.
Not one word about Abu Ghraib, or the now revealed atrocities perpetrated by Tiny Al as White House Counsel. No reassurance of any kind that Congressional oversight would be invoked to protect my and my fellow citizens rights. That was the moment I swore I’d find some way to get a new U.S. Senator. Eventually that did lead me to the Draft Rick Noriega movement..
The
Constitution is not the applicable law. In the Abu Gharib prison or the
confinement of enemy prisoners "all is fair in war". The captured enemy
is information and intel. I think maybe hog fat might be a more
progressive information extraction method than the ones employed but
the Geneva Convention only binds our nation while all other run rogue
over it. Nobody else adheres to it and in fact it is an advantage when
American humanity is engaged to defend pure & evil. Hey, you gotta
fight fire with fire, any soldier knows this. WATT would be the proper
actions for a Senator presented this situation? If he can give a woman
a choice to torture & terminate the life of an
unborn American certainly he can give a Soldier a choice how to handle
(interrogate) the enemy?
Filed by Boadicea on August 10th, 2007
So, it’s with some amusement that I note that somehow, John and his BFF appear to have had a falling out, according to the Austin American Statesman.
”He’s a good person, but I look at his jobs he’s held, and I wonder what has prepared him for being the head of the Department of Justice and 110,000 employees in a highly partisan and difficult political environment,” Cornyn told the American-Statesman editorial board.
You know when a good time to consider that might have been, Senator?
When he was up before the Senate for confirmation as the Attorney General of the United States, aka head of the Department of Justice.
Wonder why the thought didn’t occur to you then. Elections too far away, perhaps?
Junior
John will say WATT he needs to say, promise who he needs to promise and
play on the hope and good human nature of Texans for one reason. Who
thinks Junior John is saying it because he means it, because he has
every intention of doing it, because he is going to do WATT he says?
For those of you who answer affirmatively to the above question, please refer to that George Strait song. However, in Junior John's case, "He'll throw in the BND Bridge for free.
Nothing focuses the political mind as much as electoral peril, and Texans have not one, but two excellent choices to replace the Senator who thinks he only represents ONE Texan.
Two Democrats who are exploring runs against Cornyn next year — San Antonio lawyer Michael Watts and state Rep. Rick Noriega of Houston — said Gonzales should resign. Noriega said Cornyn has sharpened his criticism of Gonzales because he’s got an eye on the 2008 election, and Watts said Cornyn “will never call for his resignation unless Karl Rove gives him permission.”
Well said, gentlemen.
I’m clearly a Noriega supporter, but the fact is either of the Democratic contenders would be a step up from Box Turtle John.
It’s a nice position for Dems to be in, but we have to remember the object lesson of the California Governor’s race last year-which had such a poisonously divisive primary that a weak incumbent returned to office, and two leading lights of the California Democratic primary damaged each other in the eyes of the electorate-possibly permanently.
Fight hard in the primary, but don’t salt the earth. We need to unite behind our standard bearer in the general election, or we’ll have another six years of Box Turtle John.
And no Texan deserves that.
I agree for the most part and with the divisive thing, absolutely.
Lubbockleft.com: The question for Mikal was why should we support him
Mikal’s response was in three parts:
A few intangibles most of you guys probably don't know.
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