Ever noticed how his eyes look in two different directions?
Posted on 01/31/2006 10:09:28 AM PST by pillut48
Arrested -- for what??
She was invited to the Stated of the Union by a Democrat Senator, and security caught her trying to open a flag... or something like that. I'm watching GW now. :-)
LMAO.
She's working on a longer rap sheet than DMX.
I laughed so hard my dogs were barking, LOL!
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I can't believe this woman is actually taken seriously by a significant portion of the American public.
From Todd Gitlin to a woman who sounds like a character from Sweet Valley High and looks like a Woodstock retread.
Has the left descended to this point?
I agree we will not really know how these judges will work out in the long haul. The best we can do is start with those who have a proven track record that includes following the Constitution.
I agree we will not really know how these judges will work out in the long haul. The best we can do is start with those who have a proven track record that includes following the Constitution.
After Kennedy, Souter and O'Connor I'll refrain from celebrating yet. I'm cautiously optomistic though.
Yes, we've gotten some good judges.
Remember all of those long and loud threads where everybody trashed SML Frist because we weren't getting our judges.
Last I checked, Frist was still Senate Majority leader.
Damn right. Now that old...well, I can't say the word here but it rhymes with termagant (which is pronounced TUR-muh-gunt, btw)...she can go off and die without f'in up the Constitution any more.
That woman was Reagan's second biggest mistake.
I will give her credit for her brilliant dissent in Kelo. Too bad she turned activist when it suited her - when she decided to be constructionist, her logic was excellent.
But in the end, the bad outweighed the good with O'Conner.
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Ever noticed how his eyes look in two different directions?
LOL. Alito was assigned to oversee the 9th Circuit. Haha.
Alito was reassigned to the 8th Circuit on Wednesday morning. It was great while it lasted though. The Circuits are now as follows:
* District of Columbia Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr.
* For the First Circuit, David H. Souter
* For the Second Circuit, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
* For the Third Circuit, David H. Souter
* For the Fourth Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr.
* For the Fifth Circuit, Antonin Scalia
* For the Sixth Circuit, John Paul Stevens
* For the Seventh Circuit, John Paul Stevens
* For the Eighth Circuit, Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
* For the Ninth Circuit, Anthony M. Kennedy
* For the Tenth Circuit, Stephen Breyer
* For the Eleventh Circuit, Clarence Thomas
* For the Federal Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr.
Party's over.
Is that from the 70s ?
I look forward to that fight, as long as we have some more 'Pubbies with spines. It's about time we bring up the fact, over and over and over again, that if the replacement for Ginsburg is a conservative it's only restoring that seat to its position prior to Ginsburg.
The thing is, strict constructionism IS logic. It's illogic that allows 'inventive' departures from the text. But I can't credit as brilliant anyone who ignores the plain language of the Constitution, then puts an expiration date on that reading of the 200+ year old document (as she did in Grutter).
Her Kelo dissent was brilliant, no matter what she did elsewhere.
It was possible after Berman and Midkiff to imagine unconstitutional transfers from A to B. Those decisions endorsed government intervention when private property use had veered to such an extreme that the public was suffering as a consequence. Today nearly all real property is susceptible to condemnation on the Court’s theory. In the prescient words of a dissenter from the infamous decision in Poletown, “[n]ow that we have authorized local legislative bodies to decide that a different commercial or industrial use of property will produce greater public benefits than its present use, no homeowner’s, merchant’s or manufacturer’s property, however productive or valuable to its owner, is immune from condemnation for the benefit of other private interests that will put it to a ‘higher’ use.” 410 Mich., at 644—645, 304 N. W. 2d, at 464 (opinion of Fitzgerald, J.). This is why economic development takings “seriously jeopardiz[e] the security of all private property ownership.” Id., at 645, 304 N. W. 2d, at 465 (Ryan, J., dissenting).
Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result. “[T]hat alone is a just government,” wrote James Madison, “which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.” For the National Gazette, Property, (Mar. 29, 1792), reprinted in 14 Papers of James Madison 266 (R. Rutland et al. eds. 1983).
It's a damn shame she didn't take that level of lucidity and use it elsewhere.
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