{"id":1862,"date":"2005-09-29T09:09:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T16:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/29\/and-our-new-chief-justice-is\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T09:09:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T16:09:44","slug":"and-our-new-chief-justice-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"And our new Chief Justice is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=514&#038;u=\/ap\/20050929\/ap_on_go_su_co\/roberts_43\"><strong>Roberts.<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Unfortunately<\/strong> but as *expected*, the Senate just confirmed Roberts in a 78-22 vote. Now let&#8217;s wait for the shit-storm over Bush&#8217;s pick for O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s seat&#8211;that&#8217;s the biggie to be most concerned with now. No surprises really. And perhaps it&#8217;s time for <em>NARAL Pro-Choice America<\/em> to withdraw its endorsement of the alleged pro-choice Republican Chafee who voted <em>yea<\/em>? How about some of the pro-choice Dems who voted <em>yea<\/em>? Someone *may have* lost their seat in &#8217;06.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/about\/newsroom\/pressrelease\/pr09292005_robertsvote.cfm\"><strong>NARAL Pro-Choice America&#8217;s statement<\/strong><\/a> on Roberts confirmation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE II:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=9301\"><strong>Feminist Majority&#8217;s statement<\/strong><\/a> on Roberts confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberts. Unfortunately but as *expected*, the Senate just confirmed Roberts in a 78-22 vote. Now let&#8217;s wait for the shit-storm over Bush&#8217;s pick for O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s seat&#8211;that&#8217;s the biggie to be most concerned with now. No surprises really. And perhaps it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}