Posted on 04/26/2007 12:57:35 PM PDT by SmithL
Roberts, now there’s a guy I like. Level-headed, polite, dignified, unassuming...makes it all the more meaningful when he decides to rip them a new one.
Thanks for the post.
From the dissent, it appears the majority decision citations are beyond mistaken, they are willfully mischaracterizing past decisions.
Well, I see it as really exactly as Roberts says: the decisions have been all over the place, and completely confusing to anyone.
Personally, I find a whole bundle of areas that the USSC has muddled this way, in my opinion, due mostly to their attempting to change the clear meaning of the Constitution without admitting that is their intent.
I see this as only the first salvo of many that Roberts may well fire in the future - and that he’s signalling that loud and clear here.
Stevens is another addled little man whose time has passed. He needs to go...along with the little bug-eyed, pipe-cleaner lady.
You mean Darth-Bader Ginsberg?
Yeah. Ann Coulter said she looked like she was “fashioned out of pipe cleaners.”
“You mean Darth-Bader Ginsberg?”
And her Sith apprentice calls her “Master Bader Ginsberg.”
Harry Edwards, a Carter appointment to the DC circuit, called John Roberts “the most conservative judge he had ever served with”.
Keep in mind he served with both Scalia and Thomas.
Can I read Roe v. Wade into this comment? Where are the Libs claiming “Stare Decisis, Stare Decisis; It’s settled law, Stevens can’t do that” on this particular decision.
Little did Stevens know he was laying the groundwork for overturning the abortion ruling.
I'm soooo happy he's 87. I wish he'd hurry up and retire/die before Bush leaves office. I'm sure Roberts was much kinder to Stevens than I would have been. I'm so glad Bush put Roberts in instead of Harriet Myers. I think she would easily been influenced by the others.
Yes, but only because we raised so much hell over Harriet Myers. It was only then he appointed Roberts. That said, thank God Americans raised such a ruckus that he dropped her.
Glad you approve. I pictured a kilt, a claymore, an Attila-the-Hun helmet, and a really crazy expression.
Best,
SS
I like the way Chief Justice Roberts is turning out.
He has to be if he wants to do any good. Historically, it's been up to the Chief to convince decrepit old farts to retire.
We have only 1 more chance to get rid of Stevens, and that's this June, at the end of the Court's term.
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