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Wrong On All Counts!(George Will hits another homer!)
The Washington Post ^ | 3/6/2005 | George F. Will

Posted on 03/06/2005 6:22:59 AM PST by kellynla

In 1992, before delivering the Supreme Court's ruling in an abortion case, Justice Anthony Kennedy stood with a journalist observing rival groups of demonstrators and mused: "Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line." Or perhaps you are a would-be legislator, a dilettante sociologist and a free-lance moralist, disguised as a judge.

Last Tuesday Kennedy played those three roles when, in yet another 5-4 decision, the court declared it unconstitutional to execute people who committed murder when they were under 18 years old. Such executions, it said, violate the Eighth Amendment proscription of "cruel and unusual" punishments because. . . . Well, Kennedy's opinion, in which Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined, is a tossed salad of reasons why those five think the court had a duty to do what state legislatures have the rightful power and, arguably, the moral responsibility to do.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: anthonykennedy; captialpunishment; crapweasels; georgefwill; mykingdomforaclue; ropervsimmons; ruling; scotus; scotusknowsbest
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To: CanGyrene

Well there's nothing stopping you from coming south.
The border patrol sure won't! LMAO

Semper Fi, Gyrene
Kelly


21 posted on 03/06/2005 7:05:45 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: bahblahbah

Even if just Rehnquist leaves -- which I assume he will -- a good new Justice would have made this 5-4 the other way. One is enough. That's why the Dims are fighting tooth-and-nail.


22 posted on 03/06/2005 7:06:47 AM PST by bboop
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To: spinestein

Spinestein, you hit the nail on the head! Of course Kennedy's opinion is laughable, but those who eviscerate his tortured "logic" should be aware that "logic" had nothing to do with his ruling. He decided the case based on his emotions and personal biases, then wrote an opinion to obscure the real reasons he decided as he did. Sorta like the Red Queen in "Alice in Wonderland" who proclaimed "Execution first, trial afterwards" (paraphrase).


23 posted on 03/06/2005 7:07:17 AM PST by CivilWarguy
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To: kellynla

So, let me get this right, you can't kill a vicious murderer because he/she was 17 at the time of the murder because they have a "lack of maturity" and an "underdeveloped sense of responsibility" but it is just fine for a 12 year old girl to walk into an abortion clinic and get an abortion without her parent's permission or even knowledge? And it is okay to kill the most innocent of us all without so much as even a hearing?


24 posted on 03/06/2005 7:12:50 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: spinestein
You have hit the nail on the head, friend. Again, Canada represents an excellent example of just how far overboard - and how deep into the muck - the twisted and self-serving logic of legal arrogance can sink. There are NO Traditional Rights in Canada anymore (as in Free speech, self-defense, free choice) due to the FACT that the citizens have simply given up and allowed the Canadian version of the Ginsberg/Kennedy/Stewart element to ride roughshod over them. Take heed, Americans!
25 posted on 03/06/2005 7:13:18 AM PST by CanGyrene (CanGyrene)
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To: spinestein

Got it. Thanks. It seems to me that the "Living Document" gang will generate contradictions every time they open their mouths. I was just trying to figure out a way to capitalize on this one.

Like, if they can "Creatively Interpret the Constitution" then The People should be able to "Creatively Interpret the Courts Rulings".

Hey, THEY started it. :)

Just wondering,

Mush the TroubleMaker


26 posted on 03/06/2005 7:14:29 AM PST by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

"So, let me get this right, you can't kill a vicious murderer because he/she was 17 at the time of the murder because they have a "lack of maturity" and an "underdeveloped sense of responsibility" but it is just fine for a 12 year old girl to walk into an abortion clinic and get an abortion without her parent's permission or even knowledge? And it is okay to kill the most innocent of us all without so much as even a hearing?"

that's right, these clowns in the black robes evidently never took "logic" in school! LOL



27 posted on 03/06/2005 7:15:14 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: kellynla

You've got that one right, friend. When I can, I will.
Semper Fi!
TC


28 posted on 03/06/2005 7:15:30 AM PST by CanGyrene (CanGyrene)
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To: Enterprise
Does it actually exist anyplace public, or is it always behind a registration screen? I don't "play" that...
29 posted on 03/06/2005 7:15:42 AM PST by JasonC
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To: OkiMusashi

No it does not. Clearly.

The law only views being alive as having left the womb and breathing. (one independent breath)

In the womb and the fetus is "disposable" as a matter of law regardless of viability.

If the pro-life groups would smart, they would push for a compromise point of "viability".


30 posted on 03/06/2005 7:20:24 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: JasonC

31 posted on 03/06/2005 7:20:28 AM PST by Enterprise (President Bush thought Wead was a friend. Turns out he was just a big fat tape worm.)
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To: bboop

I know that, that's why I put "besides Rehnquist".


32 posted on 03/06/2005 7:23:01 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: CanGyrene

Shakespeare wrote that if you wanted to overthrow the governemnt you first had to kill all the lawyers. Only with ignorance of the rights under the law coupled with the absence of a core of people to defend those rights could you ever hope to overthrow the king.

Its a common misperception.

What is needed is more public education and REGISTERED VOTERS.

The adoption of UNreatified international treaties by the judges up for nomination should be a litmust test question.
(specter is totally incompetent in this regard)


33 posted on 03/06/2005 7:26:21 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: kellynla

Marshal retired just before his death because the thought the court would never go liberal again. The leftist and (oConnor) hang on because they want to "hold the space" for some ideological reason.

Besides, it is a very cool job. (the ulimate black robe fever position)


34 posted on 03/06/2005 7:28:02 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: kellynla

They're not under aged whne they're executed. Look for the gangs to recruit sixteen and seventeen year olds for their hits now. Some teens may try the freelance route, to get jobs.


35 posted on 03/06/2005 7:35:57 AM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: kellynla

This is nothing more than a concession to Europe.


36 posted on 03/06/2005 7:40:32 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
Right. It is no accident (as the Commies used to say) that every summer our Supreme Court Justices head en masse (an appropriate French expression) to Europe to attend seminars where they learn new precedents to introduce into our battered Constitution.
37 posted on 03/06/2005 8:12:09 AM PST by Malesherbes
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To: kellynla

Final paragraph:

"The Democrats' standard complaint is that nominees are out of the jurisprudential "mainstream." If Kennedy represents the mainstream, it is time to change the shape of the river. His opinion is an intellectual train wreck, but useful as a timely warning about what happens when judicial offices are filled with injudicious people."


38 posted on 03/06/2005 8:26:40 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: longtermmemmory
"What is needed is more public education"
I disagree. "Public education" is a major reason that children grow up to become anti-American socialists because they are and were taught by anti-American socialists! e.g. Ward Churchill

I would argue that what we need is more home schooling in America!

Semper Fi,
Kelly
39 posted on 03/06/2005 9:31:30 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: longtermmemmory
The reference to Shakespeare was more of a reminder that these views (above and reflected by Will) have been around for a long time - not designed to be a subversive or seditious call for indescriminate murder. Hell, Jefferson makes the case very well in his observation that the judiciary as envisioned in the Constitution represented the most vulnerable aspect of the new Federal state! As usual, his words have proven prophetic.

Education? I am assuming you do NOT mean that abortion delivered by the NEA - but rather a pre-multiculturalist education in which the values of our Judeo-Christian society and those enshrined in the Constitution are taught. NOT the BS the ACLU and NEA are dishing out.

Yup - VOTE! - Intelligently.
40 posted on 03/06/2005 9:53:14 AM PST by CanGyrene (CanGyrene)
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