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BREAKING: Justice David Souter Will Retire This Year
NPR, ConservativeXpress ^ | 4/30/09

Posted on 04/30/2009 7:26:56 PM PDT by DrGop0821

President Obama will get his first crack at nominating a Leftist Liberal Radical Activist Judge to America's highest court.

NPR reports:

NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the court's current term.

The court has completed hearing oral arguments for the year and will be issuing rulings and opinions until the end of June.

Souter is expected to remain on the bench until a successor has been chosen and confirmed, which may or may not be accomplished before the court reconvenes in October.

At 69, Souter is nowhere near the oldest member of the court, but he has made clear to friends for some time now that he wanted to leave Washington, a city he has never liked, and return to his native New Hampshire.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bho44; retirement; scotus; souter
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1 posted on 04/30/2009 7:26:58 PM PDT by DrGop0821
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To: DrGop0821

A lib to be replaced by a lib.


2 posted on 04/30/2009 7:33:57 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: DrGop0821

Thank God!. Sure, Obama will replace him with another liberal, but Souter has been a travishamockery of a Judge to quote that Bud Light ad of a while back. Bush 41 really screwed the pooch there. If he had gotten that pick right, Roe v Wade would have been gone for the last 20 years. Affirmative Action would have been history. All those gitmo decisions would have been the other way. I could go on.

And what gratitude did Souter show Bush 41 or the Bush family? None. He deliberately held out until Bush was gone and then got out of town as fast as he could. If McCain had won he’d have stayed until 2013.

This by the way was the number one reason to vote for McCain. Not that with only 40 Republicans we’d have gotten another Roberts or Alito, but we’d have gotten another Kennedy instead of another Ginsburg which is what we’ll end up with.

Thankfully this doesn’t change the balance of the Court at all.

I think Stevens holds out another year or two to break Holmes’ olderst justice records and Bill Douglas’ longest tenure record then he bails. Ginsburg is in supposedly frail health.

The key is to hope nothing happens to Scalia or Kennedy. They both turn 73 this year and if one of them goes, we are completely finished on the Court for the next 30 years.


3 posted on 04/30/2009 7:36:47 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: jeltz25

America is on such thin ice its crazy.


4 posted on 04/30/2009 7:43:19 PM PDT by omega4179 (Boycott government communist tractor factories!)
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To: CaptainK

More likely a lib to be replaced by a 35-year-old ultra-leftist, anti-American, pro-terrorist, radical, Communist, rabidly homosexual, Christophobic, hate-filled moron with a tissue-thin resume and excellent health that will pollute the High Court for the next 50 years.


5 posted on 04/30/2009 7:47:58 PM PDT by Konacoast (Mohamed was a community organizer.)
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To: DrGop0821

We are assured to get a real winner. Maybe Nasty Pelosi? Dingy Harry? Rhambo? Sebellius? So many opportunities out there....


6 posted on 04/30/2009 7:49:26 PM PDT by pankot
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To: pankot

How about Reverend Al or Jesse Jackson?


7 posted on 04/30/2009 7:56:32 PM PDT by kempster
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To: jeltz25
The key is to hope nothing happens to Scalia or Kennedy. They both turn 73 this year and if one of them goes, we are completely finished on the Court for the next 30 years.

They should be fine for another 15, heck maybe 20 years providing they take good care of themselves and a little luck. (knock on wood)

8 posted on 04/30/2009 8:00:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DrGop0821

He will more than likely pick Eric Holder.


9 posted on 04/30/2009 8:05:01 PM PDT by Trueblackman (Their President is nothing more than a failed empty suit and screaming racism is all they have now)
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To: DrGop0821

This is very bad news, mathematically speaking.


10 posted on 04/30/2009 8:06:57 PM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: DrGop0821
K E L O
11 posted on 04/30/2009 8:21:23 PM PDT by 4Liberty (End of civilization. 'Who cares about a little pork?' - Senator Schumer)
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To: Konacoast
And with a 60 vote majority in the Senate (assuming Franken gets seated) there is nothing the GOP can do about it.

Glad some of us saw the bigger picture and didn't vote for McCain. ...oh wait...that's right...he would have been much worse than this.
12 posted on 04/30/2009 8:25:19 PM PDT by MDspinboyredux
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To: DrGop0821

Yep, this is what the RATS were waiting for. That’s why Spectraitor had to the the Chair of the Senate Judiciary. The pieces are falling into place for the RATS.


13 posted on 04/30/2009 8:25:49 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: DrGop0821

What’s BREAKING about this? You’re the 4th person who posted on this story. Fifth, if you count the guy who posted a story two weeks ago that said Souter was the only Justice who didn’t have clerks for the upcoming term.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231101/posts


14 posted on 04/30/2009 8:44:46 PM PDT by presidio9 (Nationalizing the banks is not a solution from the Democrat Party. It is the Objective -Rush)
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To: DrGop0821

I’m thinking Angela Davis.


15 posted on 04/30/2009 8:45:56 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: jeltz25
And what gratitude did Souter show Bush 41 or the Bush family? None. He deliberately held out until Bush was gone and then got out of town as fast as he could. If McCain had won he’d have stayed until 2013.

This seems to have been in the works for longer than you think, but it is pretty coincidental that he's announce it two days after the Republicans lost the filibuster.

16 posted on 04/30/2009 8:47:11 PM PDT by presidio9 (Nationalizing the banks is not a solution from the Democrat Party. It is the Objective -Rush)
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To: Konacoast
Everything you mentioned except the age, sounds like Souter.
17 posted on 04/30/2009 8:48:10 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: DrGop0821

I’ll predict right now that Obama’s biggest obstacle to an uber-liberal SCOTUS appointment will be a number of Democrats, not Republicans.

In any case, this should be highly entertaining to see if Team Obama can bet a SCOTUS nominee any better than they can Cabinet appointees...


18 posted on 04/30/2009 9:00:53 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts....)
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To: DrGop0821

The Republican party better start planting fake libs in the democratic party so they to can recommend a planted judge who pretended to be liberal to BO for appointment to SCOTUS and that judge can then shock BO and the dems when he reveals that he’s really a conservative.


19 posted on 04/30/2009 9:02:02 PM PDT by EAGLE7 (They MAY take our lives but they'll never take our freedom!)
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To: omega4179

America went through the ice back in November. Now we’re just swimming back under the remaining ice sheet to nullify all chance of rescue. If you have children, prepare them to emigrate should they wish to avoid poverty and tyranny in adulthood. The 0 regime is the last nail in America’s coffin. It be ova, baby.


20 posted on 04/30/2009 9:21:06 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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