Ex Supreme Court Justice O'Connor Bashes Pro-Life Advocates on Terri Schiavo

LifeNews.com ^ | March 13, 2006 | by Steven Ertelt

[the invisib1e hand]

a first step towards a dictatorship

yup. a dictatorship of life.

[Yossarian]

I think I have an obligation to speak up when I see the State starving and dehydrating to death a fellow human being.

Some of us think that's a hell of a lot closer to dictatorship than allowing the parents to lovingly take care of the woman, you "international law" loving witch!

[RoadTest]

Boy! Now that she's out of work the old judge's mouth is like a loose cannon on a heaving deck.

Whoa! Watch out! Here she comes by for another pass!

[EternalVigilance]

After a local Florida judge reaffirmed his decision to allow Terri's former husband to take her life, some pro-life lawmakers said it may be appropriate to impeach such judges...O'Connor responded and said that such comments "pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedom."

Guess she missed the part of the Constitution that allows for the impeachment of out-of-control judges.

That is, if she ever read it...

[Scotsman will be Free]

She was, and is an ass. You should read some of her decisions and attempt to comprehend them. Talk about convoluted logic.

[tomahawk]

Killing the defenseless is one of her specialties.

To her, it's "dictatorship" to protect the lives of the defenseless.

What a pathetic excuse for a human being, must less a judge.

[D-Chivas]

No wonder liberals loved her.

[A.A. Cunningham]

I wonder if Sandy's sick husband has put his wishes into writing.

[mlc9852]

To compare what happened in Atlanta with people disagreeing with looney rulings by looney judges is so completely disingenuous - but certainly not surprising from the left.

[American Quilter]

I'm so glad O'Connor's no longer on the bench. Now that she's free to speak publicly, we're going to hear more of her confused and contradictory thinking.

[NinoFan]

She's off the Supreme Court, but she oculd sit on another federal court. See here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595109/posts

[freedom4me]

Good riddance, Judge O'Connor. You will NOT be missed.

[jazusamo]

She seems to be pretty loose with the dictatorship word. It makes me wonder if she's taking the path of Carter. Speaking out now that she can and not being responsible for the consequences.

[AZRepublican]

While O'Connor backs abortion, she refuses to endorse or back the US Constitution. Something wrong with this picture....

[BadAndy]

"After a local Florida judge reaffirmed his decision to allow Terri's former husband to take her life, some pro-life lawmakers said it may be appropriate to impeach such judges.

According to a London Guardian news report, O'Connor responded and said that such comments "pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedom."

Shut up and croak.

[right right]

This woman is dangerous. I wonder if the remaining Justices will cut loose on her. Is she senile or early stages of alzheimers????

[Sgt_Schultze]

She doesn't realize that a 5-4 decision by an unelected tribunal is a dictatorship of the single deciding judge who breaks the tie. This speech demonstrates that she long ago lost her ability to reason on the basis of the Constitution.

[twigs]

Oh, my. I've been reading Livy's The Early History of Rome (highly recommended, BTW) and I've been impressed how hard it was for the early Romans to keep their republic once they got it. One aspect of maintaining their republic that they fought so hard to keep was the right to appeal. Without it, they assumed that whatever you call the leadership, it served as a dictatorship. Seems to me O'Connor is challenging the right to final appeal which to an early Roman citizen would have indicated that they lived under a dictator.

[Busywhiskers]

Somebody tell her to go back to Arizona and shut her pie hole. We had enough O'Conner foolishness while she was on the court.