The White Limousine Liberal Plantation and Justice Brown ...a political lynching in the making

If you think the current U.S. Senate dog fight over Priscilla Owen is resulting in the dems getting their thongs in a bind, wait til you see what's coming down the pike. Justice Janice Rogers Brown. Brown, the daughter of a sharecropper in rural, segregated Alabama, worked her own way through law school while being a single mother. An African American woman, and the antithesis of the lilly-white limousine liberal plantation establishment, Justice Brown embodies the fullness of the American spirit. A champion of small, laissez faire government, Justice Brown recognizes the insidious encroachment of government in our lives, and tells it like it is:

Protection of property was a major casualty of the Revolution of 1937. The paradigmatic case, written by that premiere constitutional operative, William O. Douglas, is Williamson v. Lee Optical.23 The court drew a line between personal rights and property rights or economic interests, and applied two different constitutional tests. Rights were reordered and property acquired a second class status.24 If the right asserted was economic, the court held the Legislature could do anything it pleased. Judicial review for alleged constitutional infirmities under the due process clause was virtually nonexistent. On the other hand, if the right was personal and "fundamental," review was intolerably strict. "From the Progressive era to the New Deal, [ ] property was by degrees ostracized from the company of rights.25 Something new, called economic rights, began to supplant the old property rights. This change, which occurred with remarkably little fanfare, was staggeringly significant. With the advent of "economic rights," the original meaning of rights was effectively destroyed. These new "rights" imposed obligations, not limits, on the state.

It thus became government's job not to protect property but, rather, to regulate and redistribute it. And, the epic proportions of the disaster which has befallen millions of people during the ensuing decades has not altered our fervent commitment to statism. The words of Judge Alex Kozinski, written in 1991, are not very encouraging." 'What we have learned from the experience of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ... is that you need capitalism to make socialism work.' In other words, capitalism must produce what socialism is to distribute."²⁶ Are the signs and portents any better at the beginning of a new century?

Is this woman brilliant, or what? I urge all to read the entire text of the speech here.

Of course, the usual suspects are not wasting any time in doing their level-best to smear Justice Brown, calling her ( GASP!! ) a female Clarence Thomas (as if that's supposed to be some kind of insult). In a joint statement on the Black Commentator, People for the American Way and the NAACP state:

"Janice Rogers Brown has a record of hostility to fundamental civil and constitutional rights principles, and she is committed to using her power as a judge to twist the law in ways that undermine those principles (emphasis mine), said Hilary Shelton, director, NAACP Washington Bureau. "For the administration to bring forward a nominee with this record and hope to get some kind of credit because she is the first African American woman nominated to the DC Circuit is one more sign of the administration's political cynicism."

So, all of a sudden, interpreting the Constitution according to the Founding Fathers' original intent is "twisting the law" in ways that undermine principles? Which principles? Whose principles? You mean those "principles" that have to do with the NAACP and the Limousine Liberal Establishment's wish to make the Constitution a "living, breathing document" to be malleated at will into their whim du jour? You mean the principles of expanding the dependency class on the White Limousine Liberal plantation, creating more vest pocket voters for the DNC cause?

The mental midgets go on:

The report, "Loose Cannon," notes that when Brown was nominated to the state supreme court in 1996, she was found unqualified by the state bar evaluation committee, based not only on her relative inexperience but also because she was "prone to inserting conservative political views into her appellate opinions" and based on complaints that she was "insensitive to established precedent."

So taking an original intent view of jurisprudence, that is, going by the Founding Fathers' intent when writing the Constitution, is somehow wrong or ill-advised?

And experience?

Since May 2, 1996, Janice Brown has been an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. From November 4, 1994, she was an Associate Justice of the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento. From January 7, 1991, to November 1994, Ms. Brown served as Legal Affairs Secretary to Governor Pete Wilson. The job included diverse duties, ranging from analysis of administration policy, court decisions, and pending legislation to advice on clemency and extradition questions. The Legal Affairs Office monitored all significant state litigation and had general responsibility for supervising departmental counsel and acting as legal liaison between the Governor's office and executive departments.

Prior to joining Governor Wilson's senior staff, Brown was an associate at Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, a government and political law firm.

Yep... no experience there.

Look for the treatment of this woman of color to only get nastier. While it is true that the white limousine liberal establishment despises Republicans, they hold a special place of hatred toward those they deem should be one of their own, but refuse to play their game. While it may be true that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, that fury doesn't even begin to touch the fury of the white limousine liberal plantation and its inhabitants thereof toward a person of color who refuses to be a card carrying slave to their philosophy of dependency and government largesse. You don't believe me? This cartoon was part of the People for the American Way/NAACP hit piece:


I thought blatantly racist cariacatures like that went out with the minstrel shows and Amos n Andy.

Look also for the racist democrats in the Senate (and their willing pet RINOs as well) to get particularly nasty, and host their own little political lynching party. But instead of white sheets and pointy hoods over their head (well, perhaps this guy will revert back to the good old days), they will be burning a cross of intimidation, sending a message to un-like minded people of color that they not only need not apply, but better not apply.