INTEREST GROUPS PREPARE FOR SUPREME COURT VACANCIES IN COMING WEEKS... DEVELOPING...

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[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Remember Talent?

"After a cloture vote is lost for lack of 60 votes [to break a filibuster], a senator would move to appeal the vote on the grounds that it is unconstitutional....the Constitution is very clear about when super-majorities are required. Judges isn't one of them. The parliamentarian would most likely rule the motion out of order.... His ruling would be appealed and if all 51 Republican Senators held together, his ruling would be overridden. Thus having taken back control of the process, the Senate Majority Leader would move to have the pending nominations considered..."

[DPB101]

I'm pro-life, but I can understand that stepping that issue back just a little in this particular fight could be very beneficial "strategery."

I used to be "so what" on abortion. It was the problem of those involved. Pro-lifers had no impact on me at all. In fact, I viewed their single mindedness on the issue in a negative light.

But I changed completely. Not because of what conservatives said but because of what liberals said. Reading their stuff made it clear they are insane and the path they are on leads to euthanasia and eugenics. Now I see pro-lifers as justifiable alarmed and the pro-abortion side as the epitome of evil.

Hang the left with their own words. God knows there is enough there to do it.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree with you. The Court's Thursday Order accepting the CFR case for an unprecedented 8 September argument suggests that no one will be going anywhere from the Court until then. Then the Justices have to stay until that case is conferenced and the decision issued. And that takes us into the beginning of the October, 2003, Term of the Court.

Thinking it through suggests that the resignations expected in July (after the end of the normal 2002 Term) must be put on hold for another year -- because of this one case.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up on UPI and FR, and due to be in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Sunday, "Surviving in the Smokies."

[Notwithstanding]

Why on earth did he wait 4 hours as though it was developing? The story was up on the no-need-to-register portion of the NYTimes-they-are-a-changin' website at the time Drudge posted his teaser. (In fact, I found it instantly by simply News-Googling on "supreme court" as sson as I read his teaser).

[Stultis]

Thinking it through suggests that the resignations expected in July (after the end of the normal 2002 Term) must be put on hold for another year -- because of this one case.

Well, then, Bush is just going to have to win re-election. I just hope he can beat the the new Dem candidate, No Preference, who has been sweeping the primary polls. Yikes!

[CyberAnt]

Why can't the USSC Justices just wait until after 2004 to retire. By then the Senate will have the power to appoint the right persons for the job.

[Drango]

Is something wrong with my computer?

Are you logged in? Is the computer on?

[Republican Wildcat]

We've heard this several times before already...

[BlueNgold]

Any retirements are expected in the Mid Ju to Mid July time frame. The session may conclude before such announcements are made. The last scheduled item for this session is June 26th. Warren Berger made his announcement in late May. There is no reason to believe that the calendar date has any bearing on the liklihood of justices to retire.

[Notwithstanding]

ahhh...perhaps it is lefties who plan to retire for this precise reason?

[BlueNgold]

If you happen to discuss this outside of FR please make the following item clear... even if SOCUS reverses Roe it will not make abortion illegal. It will return the regulation of such items to the individual states absent a federal law. It is not forseeable that congress has the will or votes to pass such a law. The net effect would not be the termination of abortion rights, but the reversal of the courts recognition of bodily privacy as an included right.

[Republican Wildcat]

"The nominee must commit to upholding Roe," she said in an interview. "We have every right, given what's at stake for American women, to expect the nominee to answer the question."

Ms. Michelman obviously has no regard for judicial ethics (not exactly a surprise, of course).

[AntiGuv]

I'm not referring to the calendar date, but rather to the general comportment of the justices at this late stage. The two most likely retirees - Rehnquist & O'Connor - simply don't give me the impression of imminent retirement. Of course, as already mentioned, no one ever really knows and my memory of past retirements is fading after all these years.

[BlueNgold]

Rhenquist is rumored to have been considering retirement for 3 years based on Washington reports...

[Michael.SF.]

She (Ginsburg) also supports lowering the age of consent to 12.

Do you have a link, or reference, to support that?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Somebody the other day posted a link to a site exposing Ruth Bader Ginsberg as a signatory to some document advocating that the age of consent be lowered to 12.

It was on a thread about the homosexual agenda and I didn't save it when I saw it. If anybody has it, can you please post it for Michael S.F.?

Thanks!

[CyberAnt]

Okay, okay - I get it - the lefties retire just BEFORE the repubs take over so the dems can filibuster ANYBODY Bush appoints. Very good! Thanks!

[DPB101]

Focus on the Family Newsletter, January 1994

JUNE 14: Avowed feminist and ACLU activist Ruth Bader Ginsberg was appointed to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court. Based on a report she co-authored and on her previous decisions, these are some of the positions she has expressed in the past.

1.The traditional family concept of the husband as a breadwinner and wife as a homemaker must be eliminated.
2.The federal government must provide comprehensive child care.
3.The Homestead Law must give twice as much benefit to couples who live apart from each other as to a husband and wife who live together.
4.In the military, women must be drafted when men are drafted, and women must be assigned to combat duty.
5.Affirmative action must be applied to equalize the number of men and women in the armed forces.
6.The age of consent for sexual acts must be lowered to 12 years of age.
7.Prostitution must be legalized. She wrote, "Prostitution as a consensual act between adults is arguably within the zone of privacy protected by recent constitutional decisions."
8.All-boy and all-girl organizations must be sexually integrated, as must all fraternities and sororities. The Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts must change their names and their purposes to become sex-integrated.(14)

(14) "Sex Bias in the U.S. Code," Ginsberg, Ruth Bader, Report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, April 1977.

[Recovering_Democrat]

QUESTION FOR COURT EXPERTS:
If one of the liberal justices retires, and is not replaced, will the standing 8 justices then be the ones to hear and rule on cases, or do we have to have NINE justices to hear all cases?

This would be great news if that old hack JP Stevens retires, and the Democrat Party decides to again filibuster...I'd love to see a Conservative Court again!

[GiovannaNicoletta]

THANKS DPB101!!

You're a doll!