Posted on 10/26/2020 4:38:50 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The chief justice is an especially potent swing voter, because he also has the power to assign authorship of the majority opinion, including to himself. That can help shape a decisions scope and directionusually, in Chief Justice Robertss case, by making it more tentative.
If the chief justice is in dissent, however, the assignment power falls to the most senior associate justice in the majority. Clarence Thomas is now the most senior justice, so he will assign authorship any time he is in the majority and Chief Justice Roberts dissents.
Justice Thomas is something of an anti-Roberts. His lone concurrences and dissents are usually not incremental but adventurous, urging colleagues to break new legal ground or rethink old precedents. In June Medical Services, he argued that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overturneda position no other sitting justice has endorsed since Antonin Scalia died in 2016.
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Are you going to sue him for plagiarism?
My mistake, you are correct. Sorry about that.
I don’t know what that means but I’m guessing you know where you can go.
spell check, you’ve heard of it ?
Yes, I know. I was kidding you. It’s a good night. Just having a little fun.
And now we have two Anthony Kennedyites on the court. (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh), so at the end of the day Day O'Connor will probably be better than those two.
If Roe was ever to be brought before the Supreme Court again, Roberts may or may not vote to overturn Roe. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh never will.
O’Connor gave us RvW, the most wicked law ever.
I worry about gorsuch in particular since he’s uber focused on gay rights. jury’s out in my mind on kavanaugh but I don’t see him as a true conservative unfortunately.
I have high hopes for ACB
I totally agree with you. Roberts is a Mitt Romney Justice. And more than anything he is NOT going to defer to Justice Thomas writing the winning decisions, while he is relegated to dissenting opinion writings. He wants the spotlight on himself, just like Romney. And he’s not ABOUT to give the spotlight to another
You should do it in three groups:
Conservatives: Thomas, Alito, Barrett (Hopefully she pans out)
Squish: (From right to left) Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh
Left: (definitely not liberal) Breyer, Kagan, Sotomayor
Has not panned out as such, so pay closer attention please.
As I said, I hope so, but I have doubts. I think it was mainly a political move by Trump to pick her rather than a guy with similar originalist credentials.
I’ll hope for the best.
But really, Lazamataz, tell me how you picture her and her family being publicly crucified and humiliated before she votes to overturn Roe v. Wade. I loved Palin but she couldn’t handle it - not when it came to her family.
I’ll say this - what Trump has endured, I don’t believe any woman could have withstood. That is not a knock on a woman’s value just the fact women are simply not made to be as strong as men. What’s the matter with people? Dang we’re living in a weird time. 50 years ago nobody would have argued with that.
Nevertheless, I’ll probably get whacked again. Can’t help it. I don’t see anything wrong with what I’m saying. I feel like there’s a lot of people that actually feel this way but are afraid to say it because of this kind of crazed overreaction. And I think it’s important to say these things.
I’m fine. The Xanax needs to go to the crazies who would have me strung up.
No flaming necessary, responses are BASED on your remarks.
-Obviously you think women are mindless.
-Women need to be barefoot, pregnant & in the kitchen.
-Women are not qualified to hold any position that is over a man.
Praise God that my father taught me to be independent and that the next job to be done on the farm was to the next person regardless of sex.
So because of him, I can plow, disc, feed the cows, hogs, chickens, bale hay, chop silage/fill silo.
Understand how to read the books of a business.
AND I successfully own and operate 2 businesses across 4 states. I haven’t missed a payroll in over 20 years.
Gosh, I must be stupid to think I could have accomplished this.
WHY do you feel this way, was it your mother or father that impressed these ??? ideas in you head?
Really?
You believe Gorsuch (sp) and Kavanaugh are going to be problematic?
Did you watch any of her hearings?
If not, you might not get to conjecture in that fashion.
If so, you wouldn’t BE conjecturing in that fashion.
Wow, the Leftist Hippie mantra. You’ve got it down pretty good.
You forgot male Chauvinist Pig.
I love the truth and you must be deaf, dumb, and blind to not see the proof of how decrepit the Women’s Movement is by the bloody and destructive results it has produced.
You couldn’t possibly comprehend that someone could love women, and utterly loathe and despise the Women’s Movement. But don’t let your head explode.
I’ve got pretty good instincts. I hope I’m wrong. But you haven’t answered me about how you see her taking the heat that will come BIG time about Roe v. Wade.
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