Ari Fleischer Quotes
The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.
Fleischer, Ari. "Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer." The White House, 23 June 2003.
In 2002 the corrupt Indonesian Courts ruled that a very solvent Canadian company Manulife was bankrupt so that others could get control. The international financial and political community wanted the Indonesian government to intervene and reverse the rulings, but historically the courts had no independence and had been tools of the government.
This was more than a general observation at the time. Elena Kagan had just gone through difficult and extended Senate confirmation hearings to be a Justice of the Supreme Court. She was confirmed but there was a substantial Conservative opposition to her on the grounds that she had not served as a judge, although she had appeared as an attorney in many cases and as Solicitor General of the United States she argued cases before the Supreme Court. To many it was surprising that a sitting justice would so currently take a public position which could be interpreted as criticizing one wing of Congress, especially since that wing had been criticized for just playing petty politics and having no real substantive issues.
Lawrence Ari Fleischer is an American media consultant and political aide who served as the twenty-first White House Press Secretary, for President George W. Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003.
