Too Tired to Blog?

The last month has been incredibly busy. Seven periods a day, with a new discussion board to oversee has left me with little time or energy to spend on Blogging.

The news of the withdrawal of the Miers' nomination drew me back today though. I have tried in the past to predict who would be nominated, and always been wrong...so of course, I will now make my prediction. My guess is Michael Luttig. His resume is amazing, and his credentials appear to be flawless.


UPDATE
October 31, 2005

My record remains perfect....perfectly wrong that is. Samuel Alito was the President's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court this morning. Another impressive resume, and he appears to have great credentials.

No Judicial Experience....

The debate thus far on the new Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is that she lacks judicial experience. Well, History does not support such an argument being the best tack for those who oppose the President's nominee.

A list of Supreme Court nominees who have not had previous judicial experience include:

William Renquist
Lewis Powell
Abe Fortas
Arthur Goldberg
Byron White
Tom C. Clark
Harold Burton
Robert H. Jackson
James F. Byrnes
Harlan Fiske Stone
William O. Douglas
Felix Frankfurter
Stanley Reed
Owen Roberts
Charles Hughes
Pierce Butler
George Sutherland
Louis Brandeis
James McReynolds
Willam H. Moody
George Shiras
Melville Fuller
Lucius Q.C. Lamar
Morrison Waite
Joseph Bradley
Salmon P. Chase
Noah Swayne
Nathan Clifford
John A. Campbell
Benjamin R. Curtis
John McKinley
Roger B. Taney
Henry Baldwin
Joseph Story
John Marshall
Bushrod Washington
William Paterson
James Wilson

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Helping those in need

September 29, 2005- I had the opportunity to take 73 of our high school students (110 total...or 66.3%) to the Fred Jordan Mission Back-to-School event in Downtown Los Angeles.


The students worked a variety of jobs, including crowd control, clothes fitting, clothes sorting, stocking, escorting children, and clean-up...lots and lots of clean-up.


This years group, the 7th to work the Back-to-School event, was the largest in school history, and was once again impressive in the amount and quality of work that they accomplished.