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Supreme Court Justice Souter To Retire
npr ^ | April 30, 2009

Posted on 04/30/2009 7:08:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter smiles after speaking during a dedication ceremony at the State Supreme Courthouse in Concord, N.H., on July 9, 2008.


1 posted on 04/30/2009 7:08:35 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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We knew it was going to happen. This is very bad--, and I'm sure others will follow.

Soon, the liberals will have control of all three branches of government.

Be afraid---be very afraid.....

2 posted on 04/30/2009 7:12:03 PM PDT by basil ( It's time to eliminate all "Gun Free Zones")
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Well darned.

Just darned.

Obama's handlers are going to have a difficult time finding someone as imbalanced as this guy.

3 posted on 04/30/2009 7:13:15 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Well, Souter’s retirement from the Court is almost as big a blow to the conservative cause as Senator Spector leaving the Republican party.

Sadly, Zero will likely appoint a Bolshevek who’s 35 years old and in good health as Justice Souter’s replacement.


4 posted on 04/30/2009 7:13:20 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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Sigh. I know folks will say that we're just replacing a lib with a lib so no harm, no foul.

Wrong. We'll be replacing an old lib with a young lib, who won't be gone for another 20-30 years.

The only way to get control of the court is to replace libs with un-libs. Not be replacing Scalia and Thomas with two more conservatives with the GOP is back in power.

God only knows what Obama will dump on us.

5 posted on 04/30/2009 7:14:36 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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To: basil

Souter is A liberal, so the best Obama accomplishes is replacing a lib with another lib. The fear is if Kennedy calls it quits, because then the ideology does shift 5-4 to the commies.


6 posted on 04/30/2009 7:14:40 PM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: JoeProBono

Well, prepare for the crap storm.


7 posted on 04/30/2009 7:15:07 PM PDT by benjamin032 (http://noslaves.blogspot.com/)
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To: JoeProBono

Well, prepare for the crap storm.


8 posted on 04/30/2009 7:15:52 PM PDT by benjamin032 (http://noslaves.blogspot.com/)
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Obama will replace a liberal with another liberal. Neg gain - zip.


9 posted on 04/30/2009 7:16:15 PM PDT by bigbob
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The RINOs who talked George H. W. Bush into appointing this leftist get the last laugh I guess. Now the truly leftist Obama gets to appoint the replacement. Sad.


10 posted on 04/30/2009 7:17:26 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: basil
Soon, the liberals will have control of all three branches of government.

Actually Souter is a pretty reliable liberal, despite being appointed by a Republican.

11 posted on 04/30/2009 7:18:01 PM PDT by Zevonismymuse
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The National Nightmare continues.


12 posted on 04/30/2009 7:18:26 PM PDT by windsorknot
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Why is it that the libs never get burned with a Souter like we did? (IE: Someone we thought was OK when Bush 41 nominated him)


13 posted on 04/30/2009 7:18:49 PM PDT by Marathoner (The dream: 1-20-2013, hearing "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solemnly swear...")
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How many politically correct categories with the Symbolic One have to fill with this pick. He must be scouring the country for a one-legged, half-Mexican, half-Native-American transexual liberal judge with swine flu.


14 posted on 04/30/2009 7:20:26 PM PDT by Callahan
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Yea I was going to say, Souter is a liberal isn’t he? We aren’t replacing a conservative yet.


15 posted on 04/30/2009 7:20:44 PM PDT by Wildbill22
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To: basil

Souter is a Liberal.
Maybe we’ll get extra lucky and Zero will appoint a closet conservative. lol


16 posted on 04/30/2009 7:21:08 PM PDT by devere
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it’s interesting that Sununu who did the leftists such a favor by sponsoring Souter took so much flak from them.


17 posted on 04/30/2009 7:21:36 PM PDT by gusopol3
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I am wondering how much the media will cover the Obama picks in order to avoid discussing other issues...

Prepare for 24/7 Supreme Court nominee crap..

Souter was a huge disappointment and I am sure one of President Bush big regrets. I just know the resolve our Conservative judges have and they will be retiring the day they go into their coffin.

18 posted on 04/30/2009 7:22:11 PM PDT by alisasny (It's the oxymoronical existence of the average liberal moron that astounds anyone with a brain.)
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“..John Sununu assured President Bush and conservatives that Souter would be a “home run” for conservatism. ...”

41 gets it wrong.....

this faggot is about the worst choice a Republican could have made. I dont expect the messiah will find someone any more liberal...this is no loss to us.

I expect Ginsberg will be going soon too. Another leftist who looks to europe to make decision and the constitution be damned.....

I fear that one of the big 4 (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito) will get sick or whatever before the TOTUS is out of office.....we can only hope and pray.


19 posted on 04/30/2009 7:23:37 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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It’s entirely likely that obama will also get to appoint replacements for the ailing 76 yr old Ginsberg and the 89 yr old Stevens.

Let’s hope Scalia’s health holds up.

Gad, 3 of our 9 Justices will be Marxist vetted.


20 posted on 04/30/2009 7:24:34 PM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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