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...
This stream could do without any more references to her as a b*tch please.
That is over the top and disrespectful!
What foreign court told you that?
Wrongo keebler!
The politically powerful have to change things...and developers have lots of money for both Dems and Repubs.
In Colorado, a 3rd generation landowner of 841 acres is preparing to fight off and ED attempt at grabbing 60 of her acres for a high school.
Right next door is King's Deer. I am unsure how many acres of 2.5 acre lots they have, but they are responsible for the need of a school...so why shouldn't the developer that built the homes SACRIFICE the land!!!
The courts ARE largely a pack of jack-in-the-box liberal activist clowns. (See: Kelo for a recent example.) And as they grab more and more power away from the other alleged "co-equal" branches of government, they may indeed be flirting with the risk of violent rebellion.
Wake up, dude.
Dear Jude24:
I disagree completely with your assertions as being good and proper activity for the public sector.
I don't give a rip if the Gov grabbed acreage back in 1777, I believe it is wrong...and means there is no true private property!
That is over the top and disrespectful!
You are right, no need to insult any dogs.
O'Connor herself slammed the Constitution in favor of "world opinion" as guiding her, thus violating her oath of office.
Local and state governments have to invent ways of getting MORE TAX REVENUE...that is what drives Kelo!!
We need to drain the swamp and kill the government-growing, money-devouring alligators!!
Then Kelos won't happen.
its not just tax revnues - the politicos personally profit from this. in long branch NJ, the politicos are sitting on the operating boards of the condo development companies, while at the same time using the government's apparatus to seize homes near the ocean.
That is what it is...outright theft.
If you had not sold it, your son could sell it 20 years or so later for 100x as much. They are stealing your future value from you.
When there are judges that give children rapists weeks in jail or when they use international law to decide American case laws, they are over the top and deserve criticism.
O'Connor apparently said, "A dictatorship is better stopped at its beginning than at its end."
What a scumbag.
Perhaps you would have been better off to indicate you were being sarcastic.
There have been classless things said about OConnor on this thread today.
Criticize her actions and ideas, but not need for some to being using personal characterizations like b*tch with their added adjectives.
Were you sarcastic?
"she's not absent from judicial issues"
--just out of touch with common sense.
I have total confidence that Nina Totenberg has distorted what Justice O'Connor said.
People on this thread can also be reminded that Justice O'Connor played a lead role in smacking down the Florida Supreme Court, thus making GWB president of the United States.
As I recall, it was Justice O'Connor that wrote the scathing dissent in the property rights/eminent domain decision.
My point is, she wasn't all that bad as a justice and she was a lot more good than bad on most issues.
See post #87 and try again.
I don't think so....there would have been so much upheaval if they gave it away.
SCOTUS had no choice but to let the existing law of the time stand.
That is like folks saying certain Congressmen or women are instrumental in keeping bases in certain states. For the most part, anyone can fight those battles. It is certainly no reason to keep certain people around for 40 years or so.
Notice I said one of the worst, not the worst.
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