[mrobison]

Retire already!

[lowbridge]

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[SunStar]

In the Lawrence v Texas case decided June 26, Justice Anthony Kennedy gave as a reason for overturning a Supreme Court ruling of 17 years earlier upholding sodomy laws that it was devoid of any reliance on the views of a "wider civilization."

What about the death penalty? Is that the next to go?

[MattAMiller]

Breyer didn't say anything people here are saying he said. He said that figuring out how the Constitution governs our relationships with other countries and their constitutions will be a challenge. He also said that while the values in the Constitution are constant we are always faced with new technology and new situtations that the Founders never dreamed of that we must apply the Constitution to. That's nothing terribly controversial.

Now if you're going to argue that sodomy laws represent the view of society it's helpful to look at what society actually thinks. Now it's dumb to look to the Netherlands to figure this out, but it's a line of thought I can follow and it's rather different than declareing the Constitution subordinate to the whims of Europe.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Dear Lord, Help us!

[b4its2late]

The current court is split between Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas and Scalia, who tend to hold the traditional constitutionalist approach to rulings, and the majority of O'Connor, Breyer, Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginzburg, David H. Souter and John Paul Stevens, who tend to believe in the concept of a "living Constitution" subject to changes in public opinion and interpretation.

The "living Constitution" crowd is very harmful to the document......

[appalachian_dweller]

The SCOTUS has been overstepping is Constitutional authority for a very long time. In their twisted minds the Constitution is already dead.

For now, the only thing any of us can really do about it is vote. For now.

[Redbob]

"In an unrelated matter, O'Connor indicated on "This Week" that she would likely serve out the next term on the court, dismssing speculation that she was about to retire."

Or, maybe she'll just die.
Just before the last election, O'Connor was saying publicly that she was only staying on until Bush was elected. Now it looks as if Bush is "too conservative" for her, so she plans to stick it out.

[Constitutional Patriot]

The left wants the Constitution to be a "living, breathing" document so that they can kill it. You cannot kill that which is not living (or breathing...).

[Quix]

IMPEACH THE IDIOT.

Let him hold court with an outhouse full of mosquitoes in the deep hinterlands of Alaska.

Rather Siberia. Alaska doesn't deserve the insult.

[swampfx]

Stephen G. Breyer
Biography

President Clinton's second nomination to the Supreme Court is a man of difficult descriptions. Contradictory in many ways, Stephen Gerald Breyer defied simple classification, as a man and as a judge.

[RightWhale]

You realize that the framers intended those words to maintain constant values, but values that would change in their application as society changed."

Philosophy of Language, if there is such a thing. Words are taken as subject, and then are predicated. The same word can have any number of predicates, that is, the word does not contain its function. Another odd twist is that words can have multiple meanings--especially older words that have been in use for a time. We constantly add new words to the language, but we also add meanings to existing words, and not just by new functions, but to the word itself. It would be a mistake, most unscholarly, to interpret the Constitution by using new meanings or predicates that didn't exist when the Constitution was adopted.

[Rummyfan]

Breyer.....

He may act like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but he really is an idiot!

Isn't he sworn to uphold the United States Constitution and not the sentiments of the 'world'?

[DraftAshcroft2004]

TREASON

[ninenot]

Ping

[AK2KX]

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[Porterville]

How in the world does anyone think the USA would give up it's constitutional rights without going into a global civil war??? The nation was almost destroyed 140 years ago when the Union took away Southern liberties.... The only choice is for the world to join our constitution or be crushed...their is no other way; Bryer sees the world backwards, I bet he has only travelled to Europe and Canada and really has no concept at just how impossibly correct the USA's constitution is towards individualistic human liberties.

[DannyTN]

Breyer had held that a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that homosexuals had a fundamental right to privacy in their sexual behavior showed that the Supreme Court's earlier decision to the contrary was unfounded in the Western tradition.

IMPEACH this judge!!!

[wasp69]

The real face of judicial activism rears it's ugly head.

[Old Professer]

No wonder Scalia was incensed; he has to deal with idiots on a daily basis.

I'd rather do without the court than to do without the Constitution.

Breyer needs to be removed.

[RippleFire]

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