[blindlaw] Stevens Retirement

Fri Apr 9 21:59:26 UTC 2010

Tatel can best be described as a moderate leaning slightly to the left.  He 
is a Clinton appointee to the United States Court of Appeals for the 
District of Columbia Circuit.  He is the only blind judge on the Court of 
Appeals and the only possible nominee who has the requisite experience to 
serve on the Court and who happens to be blind.  Justice Stevens is a 
well-known liberal and an appointment of another liberal by Obama will not 
change the make-up of the Court in this instance.  Because of the reagan and 
two Bush appointments, the Court is still decidedly on the conservative 
side.  So, I most definitely do not agree that the next appointment should 
be a conservative one.  Generally, the terms "conservative" and "liberal" 
as applied to these justices is not really accurate.  They are all judicial 
activists who bring their political philosophy to the cases before them.

Any way to bring this back to matters relevant to this list, I think it 
would be a tremendous victory for our community if a blind justice were 
appointed.  Judge Tatel would represent us well and set an excellent example 
of the competence we are able to achieve.  It'll be interesting to see what 
happens from here.  Here is a short bio on Judge Tatel from the Court's 
website.

Judge Tatel was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in October 
1994. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963 and the 
University of Chicago Law School in 1966. Following law school, he taught 
for a year at the University of Michigan Law School and then went into 
private practice with the firm of Sidley & Austin in Chicago. From 1969 to 
1970, he served as Director of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil 
Rights Under Law, then returned to Sidley & Austin until 1972, when he 
became Director of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under 
Law in Washington, D.C. From 1974 to 1977, he returned to private practice 
as associate and partner with Hogan & Hartson, where he headed the firm's 
Community Services Department. He also served as General Counsel for the 
newly created Legal Services Corporation from 1975 to 1976. In 1977, Judge 
Tatel became the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of 
Health, Education and Welfare. He returned to Hogan & Hartson in 1979, where 
he headed the firm's education group until his appointment to the D.C. 
Circuit.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve P. Deeley" <stevep.deeley at insightbb.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Stevens Retirement

> Is he a conservative.  A blind, conservative Supreme Court judge would be
> great!
> Steve
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> From: "Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)" <Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV>
> To: <Blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:19 PM
> Subject: [blindlaw] Stevens Retirement
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>> Now that Justice Stevens has announced his retirement, how about a
>> campaign for David Tatel to become the first blind supreme Court
>> justice?  He's qualified, and a judge on the DC circuit Court of
>> appeals.
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>> /s/
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>> Bennett Prows, J.D.
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