Rumor on News Radio 620 - WTMJ - Supreme Court Justice to Announce Retirement

WTMJ - Milwaukee | 6/26/2003 | Charlie Sykes

[Brian S]

There will be no retirements until 2005.

[rintense]

Drudge said this yesterday on Hannity... As much as I dislike Drudge sometimes, he was right when he said this will be a long, hot summer with Democrats vowing to fight any pro-life nominee.

[Corporate Law]

I have always heard that he plans on staying on the Court the number of years he was in age when he had to go through the nomination hearing (43 years old at the time?). He is the one I don't worry about retiring anytime soon.

[Geezerette]

LOL!

I was using the term, "urinal control" that the poster in #10 used. If it was indeed Thurgood Marshall, it couldn't have been in a "recent news conference".

g

[The Shrew]

As we post, Sandra is right this moment flipping a coin..heads I go..tails I stay.... Good point!

Why should she make her retirement decision any different than she made her judicial rulings!

Regards,

TS

[No Dems 2004]

Well, I sure as goodness hope so. We need to replace the activist fools that disgrace our high court (especially after their highly activist pro-homosexual decision that undermines the Constitution). I don't care who goes, just so long as it isn't the most conservatives. Right now, my respect for Kennedy, O'Connor and the 4 lunatic fringes are all about equal.

[Congressman Billybob]

As a longtime student of the Court and member of its Bar, I think the McConnell case, set specially for argument on 8 September, throws a monkey wrench into any retirement plans. Normally, Justices resign right after the end of its Term, which was yesterday, when the last remaining decisions were handed down. That gives the President and the Senate maximu time to replace the Justice.

But with McConnell on the horizon, the only thing I can see is one, two, or possibly even three Justices resigning with an open-ended termination date. They might say, "I resign effective on the date that the decision in McConnell v. FEC is handed down." That way, the process of replacing Justices could begin now, and would continue until November, or so. Unlike the normal practice, the new Justice(s) could be confirmed, but would not take office until McConnell was completed.

It's never been done that way before. But, the Court has never before extended its Term, in effect, from late June all the way to mid-September.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, now up FR, "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies."

[BibChr]

Oooh no, Rennie, please don't go!

Dan

[BlackElk]

Sandra Day O'Connor is a Unitarian which might indicate that her Unitarian confreres are probably quite comfortable with her lifeline extended to Roe vs. Wade. Her husband's name is O'Connor and that is no guarantee nowadays that he is Catholic either if you are suggesting that she is Catholic. The disgrace to Catholicism on the current SCOTUS is Anthony Kennedy. Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia are Catholics who vote like Catholics. Rehnquist may be Episcopalian(?). Souter is Episcopalian. Breyer and Ginsberg are Jewish. Stevens is some sort of mainline Protestant. The pro-aborts are a disgrace to humanity never mind their respective faiths.