[Responsibility2nd]

FWIW

[End Times Sentinel]

Loses total credibility with the inclusion of Sandy.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Peggy Hill: And you probably think that the Supreme Court was ruined when they put a woman on it!

Hank Hill: It was! And that woman’s name was Earl Warren.

[cotton1706]

Byron White was more conservative than Lewis Powell.

[tacticalogic]

Scalia blew it when he voted to uphold Wickard v Filbun in the Gonzales v Raisch case.

[devere]

This list of judges is a bit of a joke.

“The Court apparently values the convenience of the pregnant mother more than the continued existence and development of the life or potential life that she carries. Whether or not I might agree with that marshaling of values, I can in no event join the Court’s judgment because I find no constitutional warrant for imposing such an order of priorities on the people and legislatures of the States. In a sensitive area such as this, involving as it does issues over which reasonable men may easily and heatedly differ, I cannot accept the Court’s exercise of its clear power of choice by interposing a constitutional barrier to state efforts to protect human life and by investing mothers and doctors with the constitutionally protected right to exterminate it. This issue, for the most part, should be left with the people and to the political processes the people have devised to govern their affairs.”
Justice Byron White, dissenting from Roe V Wade.
JFK’s appointee was a conservative.

[Dr. Sivana]

There are two problems with this listing. One, why start at 1937, because FDR got enough of his men in? Two, the cases must be given weight:

Brown v. Bd of Ed of Topeka KS was unanimous, so throw that out.

But we also have:

A bunch of New Deal cases that I don't remember

Griswold v. CT ("right to privacy" precednt that paved way for Roe v Wade)

Abington School District v. Schempp (school prayer)

Roe v Wade/Doe v. Bolton

Miller v. California (porno)

Bowers v. Hardwick (sodomy rights)

Lawrence v. TX (sodomy rights overturning Bowers)

Miranda v. Arizona

Kelo v. New London (eminent domain for private use)

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (incorporates 14th amendment into Roe, making it harder to overturn in future)

District of Columbia vs. Heller (gun owners' individ. rights)



These are samples of cases that should be weighted more heavily than others. Unfortunately, cases that might weigh on fine points of anti-trust law or civil procedure might be weighed just as heavily as these major cases.

[stop_fascism]

Doesn’t this list imply that justices are deciding cases for political reasons rather than attempting to apply the constitution?