With John Paul Stevens announcing on Friday that he will be retiring from the Supreme Court this summer, there has been much speculation about who Obama might choose to replace him.
"I think the White House would like to do everything to avoid a fight. And I think they're very mistaken if they think they can avoid a fight," Arianna said On ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, as part of a roundtable with George Will, Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts. "I think the president should nominate whoever he thinks is the best and forget this obsession with avoiding a fight because he won't be able to."
In addition to the names being bandied about as possible nominees, Arianna had another suggestion: Elizabeth Warren.
"I think Elizabeth Warren -- especially if we can clone her so she can also run the Consumer Protection Agency -- would be a great nominee. A Harvard Law professor, an expert on bankruptcy law, on many of the ways in which economic policies are impacting the middle class, exactly what the country needs right now, a compelling communicator. A great thing about John Paul Stevens was how persuasive he was, how he could move at least judge Kennedy and give us some of those 5-4 decisions which were so critical."
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Just wish I knew more about Kagan.
let's just do away with individuals all together
Washington (CNN) – The White House search for a new Supreme Court justice is progressing smoothly, say government sources close to the selection process, who expect President Obama to make a decision by early May.
The three favorites for the seat continue to receive the most attention among the small group of officials in charge of narrowing a "short list" of about ten names. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, and federal appeals judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland currently have the edge over others being considered, said those sources.
–Administration sources say Elizabeth Warren - the financial industry watchdog - has been quietly taken off the short list, but is still among a larger group of candidates being considered by the White House. She is now getting much less scrutiny than some of the favorites.
Yes, she is one person whose agenda is on the side of middle class folks, trying to make it less easy to craft a contract that pulls the wool over the consumers eyes. She should be made CZAR of consumer affairs since her motives are at cross purposes with the businesses she's trying to
make honest. Someone is bound if they haven't already mention that businesses are the ones who employ people. Right, thanks for the bulletin. The Dick Armeys of this movement sure have found out how to get working people to advocate against themselves. NOt only that they'll defend the millionaires and billionaires who've been siphoning off their incomes that haven't kept pace with inflation ...gangsters for whom freedom is just the first line of defense for how they do business.
Elizabeth Warren said it all in classic academic understatement.
“We are going to have a very difficult time restarting our economy if we continue a downward spiral on home values because of the downward pressure with mortgage foreclosures.”
America’s “too big to fail” banking institutions suffered a massive heart attack 18 months ago. The damage is irreversible. “Bankrupt” ideas will not solve the housing or economic crisis. It’s time for plan B. The longer we delay, the more irreversible the damage to our economy and the longer the road to recovery.
50 billion dollars is a five gallon bucket to bail out the Titanic. New, creative, and dynamic ideas are needed. Washington is not the place to find them. The answers are with the American people in their own cities and towns.
Create city and state credit unions financed and funded by the federal reserve. Let city and state governments, through their new credit union, decide where stimulus money should be spent or loaned. The federal government distributes and local governments manage. All transactions and every stimulus penny is absolutely transparent and updated daily on the internet so the whole world can observe.
Pour one trillion, two trillion, whatever trillion dollars, from the federal reserve, through these credit unions, into local democratically managed economies. Do this until jobs, housing, foreclosures, and credit turns around. They will, eventually, turn around.
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Only problem I see with putting her on the bench is that WE NEED HER DESPERATELY in finance reform and over sight...
if only god had given us more like her...
we need her everywhere...
act!!!
you just don't get it
by telling us she can't find out
she is telling us everything!!!!