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Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer
DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."
...I used to be a republican. They only have big business in their minds, rather than us. I fear what may happen if this one gets his seat on the supreme court. I mean, I am all for supporting my president and leadership in tough times, but this incident makes me doubt that the working class/not wealthy are on the minds of our current leadership.
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The only thing worse than big corporate lawyers protecting clients who sold shoddy products are bottom-feeding class action lawyers.
You're assuming the democratic leadership has testicles.
if they had testicles, John Roberts wouldn't even have left committee.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Oh yeah ! saw his troll of a wife behind him ;)
Stay out of politics. It makes you look retarded.
Good point. After all, cronyism worked great for FEMA. I have nothing but faith in our Glorious Leader, President Mobutu^H^H^H^H^H^HBush.
Another one bites the dust
True, but I find it telling that she made her argument after the appeals court said thusly: "if appellees prove that an individual defect exists in all original MS-DOS 6.0 software, it is not necessary for the purchasers to actually suffer a loss of data as a result of a defect for them to suffer damage... They have received less than they bargained for when they acquired the product.". She's arguing directly counter to the appeals court. That's not cricket. It may be fine for a corporate lawyer, but I don't think that's appropriate in a Supreme Court Justice.
Oh, you want clear cut?
The prosecutor that Delay is moaning about being "partisan" has pursued most of his cases against politicians against Democratic politicians.
Which makes Delay a fucking liar - big surprise.
The bitch lawyer being discussed has a long history of being in Bush's ass when he needs her to clean up his shit.
She is nominated for one purpose and one purpose only - to pack the Supreme Court with pro-Bush justices so that when he is indicted by the Plame outing prosecutor for criminal conspiracy, he will have some people on the bench to keep him from being sent to prison.
Period.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
There were and are hundreds of good reasons to go into Iraq.
First, I totally disagree. Saddam was no threat, nor was their any indication that he was. Second, in the absence of any legitimate claims, we may as well just write down a bunch of possible reasons to invade a foreign country, and draw one out of a hat. Either way, many Americans have lost their lives pursuing this falsehood, it is piling a huge financial burden onto the taxpayers, and ironically, it is enriching a very select group of individuals with connections in all the right places. I'm sure Bush has just as much idea as to how all of this will be paid for, as he did about what was actually going on in Iraq.
Whether he actually destroyed them or not was not the issue, he was playing shell games.
He didn't destroy them. Most of his capacity to produce anything tantamount to what Bush and Blair blathered so endlessly about, was destroyed during the Kuwait fiasco. Further, there was no evidence that he was attempting to revitalize any of those efforts.
I dunno, I'm in the fact-based universe, where lying about manmade global warming and the Iraqmire aren't in our repertoire. Of course, you've got no way to compare whether those mods are more frequent than the TrollMods I complain about. But, in true Anonymous Coward style, you still insist that your own little world of imagined persecution is the only reality.
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