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2006-04-29 Fifth Column

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Posted by tu3031 2006-04-29 12:44|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Damn!
I thought this post was going to tell me the bastard died!

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-29 14:17|| 2006-04-29 14:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It is said in Washington circles that Johnson had an ulterior motive. He wanted to appoint the first black to the Supreme Court.

There are actual tape recordings of the manipulations of LBJ on this.

"Clark, I really want you as AG, but what are folk gonna say about your daddy? He's hearing cases that you're presenting. There're gonna say 'conflict of interest'. It looks real bad for him"

Clark's claim to fame was being AG. He only got the job because LBJ wanted Thurgood Marshall as SC justice and Clark's father was occupying the chair.

Posted by john 2006-04-29 15:01|| 2006-04-29 15:01|| Front Page Top

#3 He looks so ugly these days too....like a catfish extruding whiskers.

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-29 15:08|| 2006-04-29 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Appointed Attorney General by President Harry Truman in 1945, Clark was appointed to the court in August 1949, filling the vacancy left by the death of Frank Murphy. Truman later came to regret his choice; he remarked to a biographer many years later that "Tom Clark was my biggest mistake." But, he insisted: "It isn't so much that he's a bad man. It's just that he's such a dumb son of a bitch."
The basis for the change in Truman's attitude stemmed from Clark's vote to strike down as unconstitutional Truman's seizure of the nation's steel mills to avert a strike in 1952's Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer after having advised Truman as attorney general that he had legal authority to do so.

Must've been a helluva attorney general. Like his kid...

Posted by tu3031 2006-04-29 16:24|| 2006-04-29 16:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought this post was going to tell me the bastard died!

It's one of those "pre" articles. I wonder if it makes him nervous that the vultures are beginning to swarm ...???

Posted by 2b 2006-04-29 16:38|| 2006-04-29 16:38|| Front Page Top

#6 it'll be warm where Ramsey goes - Lawyer's eternity...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-29 18:10|| 2006-04-29 18:10|| Front Page Top

#7 hear hear!

Posted by Beelzebub 2006-04-29 18:38|| 2006-04-29 18:38|| Front Page Top

#8 He's like a serial lawyer.

Heh. But it's a moral position! When they came for the dictators and despots, I said nothing...

Posted by SteveS 2006-04-29 18:38|| 2006-04-29 18:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Greetings #3...

Lookism aside, this commie fuck Rhamses Klinton-Klark, your rotting hero has provoked a LOT of anti-American aggitation over the years. I'd bet that you've done your share as well, Heh??

Posted by asymmetrical triangulation">asymmetrical triangulation 2006-04-29 22:27|| 2006-04-29 22:27|| Front Page Top

#10 But it's a moral position! When they came for the dictators and despots, I said nothing...

Mr. Clark, esq. has plenty to say. But in support of the d's and d's, not in opposition. The gentleman (all lawyers being gentlemen by courtesy) is a moral boil. I'm quite certain his dear friends, that he defended so very unsuccessfully in the end, will keep a place for him at their table in Hell.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-29 22:41|| 2006-04-29 22:41|| Front Page Top

#11 #9, You misread, he IS ugly, no supportive sarcasm insinuated. Like what he stands and rants for. Yuck!

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-29 23:41|| 2006-04-29 23:41|| Front Page Top

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