The Swing Set: Kennedy chats with O’Connor, who may have penned her last ruling this week
Posted on 01/22/2006 4:05:44 PM PST by new yorker 77
Kennedy may check the Supreme Court's tilt toward the right.
The Swing Set: Kennedy chats with O’Connor, who may have penned her last ruling this week
Jan. 30, 2006 issue - When conservative Washington lawyers who argue before the Supreme Court talk about "the Greenhouse Effect," they don't mean global warming. The Greenhouse in question is Linda Greenhouse, the longtime and esteemed Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times. The "effect" is to subtly push Supreme Court justices to the left. Unless a jurist comes to the court with very strongly held, or even fixed, conservative views, there is a tendency to be seduced by the liberal legal establishment that dominates at elite law schools like Harvard and Yale. Those schools produce a disproportionate number of the law clerks who generally draft opinions for the justices, as well as the sort of professor routinely tapped as a source by Greenhouse, who is regarded as a legal scholar in her own right.
That, at least, is the view of conservatives like U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman, who popularized the term some years ago. The chief "victim" of the Greenhouse Effect is usually said to be Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has drifted to the left since his appointment almost two decades ago. With the departure of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from the Supreme Court, Kennedy is seen by liberals and status-quo devotees as the remaining swing vote, a check on the court's rightward tilt as more justices are appointed by Republican presidents.
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Another CINO, I assume. (Catholic In Name Only.) The Times loves that type of hypocrite.
Such a tragic and ugly situation for America. Instead of a SCOTUS motivated BY THE LAW, we now have a politcal country club of left versus right.
Total bull excrement. The last thing that should enter the mind of SCOTUS justices is POLITICS. Only the LAW AND THE CONSTITUION and PROTECTING IT...should be at the forefront --- but we sure know better since the trashing of the 5th Amendment by anti-Constitutional socialist activists on the court.
It has to be fixed if we are to save America.
I have no confidence in the political structure of this country doing so. Both sides seem to be pushing us towards a common goal.
Journalism loved, and loves, Eisenhower's parting warning abou the "military - industrial complex." That they will quote approvingly at the drop of a hat.But if Eisenhower had really told it like it was and still is, the real warning should be against the "liberal - journalism complex." If anyone said those words, of course, no one would know it - journalism would behave as a black hole, from whose gravitational field such honesty could never escape.
If journalism were ever in the dock before the Supreme Court, honesty would require all the justices to recuse themselves with the exception of Clarence Thomas - he's the only one who never reads his own press clippings. 'Course in the real world none of the justices would actually recuse.
Just how old is Kennedy anyhow? If they're counting on him to maintain the leftist tilt, they had better hope he stays healthy.
The article is right in at least one respect: those who come to the court with a well-thought-out Constitutional philosophy are immune to the charms of Linda Greenhouse.
These libs are going to have a conniption in the next 12 months as both Ginsburg and Stevens will be departing. ZZZAPPP!!!!!
I've been saying this since the summer. We don't need another O'Connor, we already have one. Pick your years carefully, and I'm sure you'll find a stretch of decisions were Kennedy was in the most majorities.
good chance that Roberts will help bring him back to the center of legal thought and there will be a solid 6-3 court, waiting for vote 7 replacing either Ginsburg or Stevens.
I find myself yearning for so many people to "retire". Castro is another
While I agree with your sentiments regarding Castro, I think Justice Stevens probably has even more innocent blood on his hands. It will be a great day when he is off the SC. It will be an even better day when W replaces him.
yea, these lib scotus justices definately have done much more harm to our country than castro.
Stevens is 85 - I don't know what is exercise and health programs are but the dice are on our side not his. 6 and as Roberts takes Kennedy back to school the swing votes are less difficult.
Unless he hangs around for Hillary to replace him.
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