"I collect a big fat pension worth almost a quarter of a million dollars a year. Is that an "undue burden" on your wallet? Tough!"
Posted on 03/10/2006 9:43:20 AM PST by TexasAg1996
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor showed Thursday that she's not absent from judicial issues. During a speech in Washington, she said Republican leaders' attacks on the courts threaten the constitutional freedoms of Americans.
So now the Supreme Court can't be criticized. I hate judges...
After all....the SCOTUS can't be compared to the New Jersey State Supreme Court that said:
Oh, that law about elections...doesn't really matter. We can let the "loser" step down and Frank Lautenberg to take his place!
Bologna. Gore's objective was not to win Florida, but to keep the vote counting past the time that the electoral college met. If that happened, Florida's votes would not have been counted and Gore would have won in the electoral college.
Most legal scholars believed that the US Supreme Court, relying upon federalist principles, would affirm Florida's right to manage its own elections.
The decision to stop the counting looks so easy in hindsight. Go back six years and re-think.
LOL...this smells like that rumor that was going around may have legs to it after all...O'Conner was told to submit her resignation....
I understand and appreciate what they did, I just don't think or know that SCOTUS had any choice.
What insider info do you have that says O'Connor was the saviour or leader?
LOL. So true. I wonder how many people will get that one.
"Come on, Sandy Baby, loosen up. You're too tight"
She voted with the majority in both the 5-4 and 7-2 decisions and I believe she wrote one of the majority opinions. I believe that Ann Coulter also publicly noted that Justice O'Connor played a pivotal role in smacking down the Florida Supremes based on her experience in the Arizona legislature.
Perhaps everything Justice O'Connor said in this speech is absurd. I don't know. I do know that I don't trust Nina Totenberg to give us even a fraction of the truth. I also know that there are much worse justices sitting on the bench, specifically Souter, Stevens, Ginsberg, and Breyer.
O'Connor might not have been Scalia, but she was better than most justices on most issues.
Whether or not Nina Totenberg and the rest of NPR misquoted O'Connor, it can never be as bad as her own writing.
It was O'Connor who wrote the decision that said, in effect, racial preferences are unconstitutional except for about a 55-year period, ending around 2025.
What the F?
About as unqualified as anyone who ever sat on the court. I'm not talking about her prior jobs, her thinking was a mess.
Oh, she and Kennedy voted in the 5-4 minority to end abortion and then a few years later voted with the 5-4 majority to save it.
Don't let the door hit you in the butt, and now that you are retired, loosen up, Sandy baby, you're too tight.
Reagan was the best President of the last 100 years, but he really screwed up on that one.
What is she doing? I thought she retired to assist he sick husband. Why is she still involved. This is ridiculous. Your husband needs help and you are out bs'ing about nothing. Great Priorities!!!!!
I generally agree with that statement, although her more recent travesties - - CFR and sodomy - - certainly left a bad last impression. Of course, this thread raises the question: What on earth is she opening her fat trap about? The Republicans are (finally!) trying to reign in an out-of-control judiciary and she has to open her pie hole? She needs to shut up and just fade away into oblivion.
I really thought a sarcasm tag would not be needed for that on a thread where folks were using the kind of perjoratives we are seeing on this one.
Wow! I've no problem with an SC judge overdoing the "we gots to be independent!" line but even accounting for the NPR slant it sounds like she got out of hand.
Sorry, I was under the impression that this "BABE" was heading to Arizona with sick hubby. Obviously "WRONG", again, another Bimboe who will not be deterred. Seems to me she was waiting for a "Republican President" to replace her....what gives??? I guess it never ends!!!
Loosen up, Sandy baby.
Sammy "Machine Gun" Alito will make it all better.
Jesse Helms warned us.
The right to criticize the gov't -- yes, even the judicial branch of the gov't -- is what sets us appart from countries like China. Besides, to say the judges are beyond criticism is to basically say that they can do no wrong. Hogwash! That IS the problem. They think they rule this country.
Speaking of constitutional freedoms, how about the freedom to criticize the gov't? Oh the the legend in her own mind clearly fancies herself as the keeper of all the freedoms. Hardly! If she were that, she would restrict herself to the Constition of the United States and its original intent rather than free form it with the other liberals. The only freedom she's interested in is her own freedom to rewrite the laws and Constitution of this country.
I didn't respect your opinion when you being paid for it. I sure don't care to hear it now.
"I collect a big fat pension worth almost a quarter of a million dollars a year. Is that an "undue burden" on your wallet? Tough!"
She's not even close to being 100% correct, as much of the criticism, accusations, and rhetoric directed at the judiciary is dead on and justified.
It seems she can't even fathom the idea that the Courts have brought it on themselves by overstepping their bounds. But that really isn't surprising, since she seems to be of the mind that there are no bounds for judges. The Founders indeed hoped the judiciary would protect individual rights, but they never intended for them to create new 'rights' out of thin air on completely baseless constitutional grounds. The Courts were never intended to have as much power over society as they have given themselves. They can't become the arbiter over things they have no business sticking their noses in and not expect to be called out on it. In fact, they've gotten away with it for too long, and its about time that they heard about it.
This type of whining only confirms that judges increasingly see themselves and the judiciary as some superior entity that should be above reproach and criticism. They are so arrogant that they see such criticism as a threat to the very existence of our republic.
Senator Cornyn was a bit of a dope, however, when he mixed the attacks on judges last year with the political debate, as its almost certainly the case that those perps were acting out of personal motives, not political ones.
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