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

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

[Tarpon]

The swing vote had swung a long time ago -- the antique media just hoped you didn't notice.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Reagan's biggest mistake.

[AmericaUnited]

O'Connor responded and said that such comments "pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedom."

"Statutes and constitutions do not protect judicial independence -- people do," she added.

LISTEN UP O'CONNER! TYRANICAL, ARROGANT JUDGES HAVE POSED THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR FREEDOM, OVERRIDING THE PEOPLE TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME.

[RetiredSWO]

Thank goodness this activist is no longer on the USSC.

[subterfuge]

"It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings," O'Connor said

she should know, she helped degenerate the USC into a monarchy by committee.

[shekkian]

Does she regret retiring?

[BFM]

A mind is a terrible thing to waste...

[Petronski]

The real step toward dictatorship was Florida's civil execution last spring in Clearwater.


"Out out, damn spot," the retired justice was heard muttering in a washroom just off stage.

[Spiff]

O'Connor also said that some Republican lawmakers are contributing to a climate of violence against judges by using harsh language to denounce certain decisions.

She's pro-baby murder and pro-killing off the old, sick, mentally challenged, and brain-damaged. Now she's spouting this crap about pro-life violence against judges!!? I'm am SOOOO glad she's out of the Supreme Court. What a waste of black judicial robe cloth she was. She's the biggest mistake Reagan ever made. Well, that and amnesty for illegal aliens. But that's a topic for a different thread.

[Tribune7]

"We must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary,"

Like, by passing laws?

[billbears]

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."

Unfortunately Justice O'Connor is wrong in this instance. The comments themselves do not pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedom.

However the actions advocated by those same lawmakers did pose a direct threat to the Constitution and the Federalist system that it established, such as what's left of it these many years later

I do however hope she enjoys her retirement and does get to spend many years with her husband

[legendofamind]

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

He'd better, with this dingbat on the loose. Of course, the time is coming when even putting it into writing won't save you.

A very sad downward spiral for a once-great nation that valued life and the principle of preserving life rather than taking it. I remember a time in this country when innocent people didn't need a piece of paper to secure their right to live. Now it seems they do. A Culture of Death, indeed.

[EternalVigilance]

No kidding.

[xarmydog]

She is the poster girl for the Peter Principal!

[EternalVigilance]

However the actions advocated by those same lawmakers did pose a direct threat to the Constitution and the Federalist system that it established, such as what's left of it these many years later

Of course you would think that, being a judicial supremacist and all.

[GianniV]

Reagan's biggest mistake.

[Galveston Grl]

I am glad she is taking off the mask to come out against those she politically disagrees with. Just goes to show she was a politician on the bench just as everyone said.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I took her comments more to be her fear of ANY congressional or executive holding the judiciary ACCOUNTABLE. She would have made those comments, I think, NO MATTER WHAT the issue.

In Sandy's mind, she obviously thinks the Judiciary must be an unmolested oligarchy. She's nuts.

[1L]

Ronald Reagan's single biggest mistake. Even more than Anthony Kennedy.

[Recovering_Democrat]

yup. a dictatorship of life.

Right on: Sandy ought to be concerned about a judiciary that is increasingly out of touch with the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives. THREE branches are there for a reason...Sandy seems to have forgotten that fact.