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Alito Leans Right Where O'Connor Swung Left
The Washington Post ^
| November 1, 2005
| Charles Lane
Posted on 11/01/2005 5:59:22 AM PST by no dems
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Oh Happy Day, Oh Happy Day! How long have we Conservatives waited for this day? Now if RBG will just retire....
Oh Happy Day, Oh Happy Day!!!
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posted on
11/01/2005 5:59:23 AM PST
by
no dems
To: no dems
So the duly elected President is keeping a campaign promise to the people of America.
No wonder the press is in a tizzy! Honor in politics!
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:01:43 AM PST
by
airborne
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
To: no dems
If the Rats don't get an activist like they want, they and the MSM is going to continue ranting and raving. Bring em on.
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:02:46 AM PST
by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: no dems
Somebody better get on Arlen Specters arse to get the process moving to confirm before the Senate recesses for Christmas.
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:03:12 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, there's shipping and handling too.)
To: no dems
As a result, legal analysts across the spectrum saw the Alito appointment yesterday as a bid by President Bush to tilt the court, currently evenly divided between left and right, in a conservative direction.
Shout it to the heavens: THIS IS A GOOD THING!
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:03:57 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Houston, TX)
To: no dems
the court's delicate balance that Justice O'Connor has helped to shape and preserve." I often find O'Connor's reasoning to be incoherent and inscrutable. The SCOTUS is not a "super legislature", although thats how leftists think of it.
To: no dems
But what about this?
"He has not flatly written that Roe v. Wade , the Supreme Court's 1973 abortion rights ruling, should be overturned -- as have some other conservatives who were thought to be on Bush's list for the court.
Alito struck down a New Jersey law that would have banned the procedure known by opponents as "partial-birth" abortion -- just as O'Connor did. His ruling, following the one O'Connor voted for, said the statute was unconstitutional because it did not include an exception for cases in which the woman's health was at risk."
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:04:35 AM PST
by
Gone GF
To: no dems
Stephens is next. He's 85 and surely failing. Luttig can take his spot and then we'll have the great pentumvirate of Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Luttig. The greatest change since FDR.
To: b4its2late
I heard him speak this morning, sounds like MAYBE before Christmas.. sooooooo guess he's going to try and kick the can down the road so they won't have to deal with it and WHOOPS can't during the campaign season...
Guess whose cans will be kicked down the road in '06??
Someone needs to jerk Specter up by the shorthairs. We've play this game, and we the people demand results. they were ready to hear Harriet by 11/7 right?? Why the holdup?
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:16:10 AM PST
by
JesseJane
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. (More than a typing exercise))
To: cotton1706
Stephens is next. He's 85 and surely failing. Luttig can take his spot and then we'll have the great pentumvirate of Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Luttig. The greatest change since FDR. We can dream! Alito's confirmation hearing will probably not take place till after the first of the year, unless the Admin really presses the Senate.
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:17:43 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Gone GF
As a lower court judge he's obligated to follow the rulings of higher courts.
To: no dems
Now if RBG will just retire... and JRB takes her place.
To: no dems
> Alito Leans Right Where O'Connor Swung Left
The headline says it all, in full lib hypocrisy.
a. The libs are about to lose their imaginary
constitutionally-protected "swing" vote on the court, and
b. They admit that O'Connor was a lib vote, and not a
mythical coin flip "swing".
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To: cotton1706
Ginsberg's health is not well either, so ? possibly ? President Bush might just have 2 more Supreme Court appointments in the next 3 years.
SO ? add to the list
Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Luttig, Rogers Brown.
If the court were to look like that in 1 - 3 years, the Liberals will have a aneurysm, and be moving out of this country in masses ( that's a GOOD THING ).
To: no dems
Oh happy day! I worked in a place where guys sang that song a lot. =]
Laura Ingraham said it all in a quick blurb just now. She said, "Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed with the court's decision." That says it all. My new tagline for a bit:
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:33:26 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
("Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed." [Laura Ingraham])
To: no dems
I still think that the Rats are prodding O'Connor to reconsider her retirement.
Then the won't be seen as whining filibustering crybabies and can sidestep the nuclear option.
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:34:39 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Ham & Eggs: A day's work for a hen, A lifetime commitment for a pig.)
To: Rummyfan
Start the hearings at the beginning of December, have him confirmed before Christmas.
I don't see why they can't get all this done in the next 4 WEEKS to get all things in order to start the hearings by the beginning of December.
Ok Congress ??? GET TO WORK !!
To: airborne
This is a coded red alert by the Washington Post. This tips the scale. Their headline makes it clear that this isn't the loss of one judicial activist votes, but actually the loss of TWO judicial activist votes. This is a media flare.
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posted on
11/01/2005 6:36:20 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
("Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed." [Laura Ingraham])
To: cotton1706
"He's 85 and surely failing. Luttig can take his spot and then we'll have the great pentumvirate of Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Luttig. The greatest change since FDR." Nah--Luttig is just another white male. Janice Rogers Brown is the way to go. It'll give the Democrats apoplexy.
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