[larlaw]

The fact that cert was denied AND the SCOTUS failed to overturn Judge Reinhardt's outrageous decision tells me that both the conservative wing of the Court (Rehnquist/Scalia/Thomas) and the liberal wing (Stevens, Breyer, Buzzi-Ginsberg/ and Mama's Boy Souter) were very worried about how O'Connor and Kennedy (to a lesser extent) would vote.

It takes 4 Justices to grant cert; The fact that this case was not accepted indicates that it is likely that once again O'Connor was the pivotal Justice who has again effectively moved our country further to the left with her own erratic voting tendencies; Perhaps in the long run it is better that this case was NOT accepted, given that the conservatives on the Court might very well have been convinced that O'Connor might have voted to uphold the 9th Circuit given her sharp turn to the Left last term; Another reason why it is SO important that W. gets re-elected to appoint her replacement...

[Centurion2000]

It takes 4 Justices to grant cert; The fact that this case was not accepted indicates that it is likely that once again O'Connor was the pivotal Justice who has again effectively moved our country further to the left with her own erratic voting tendencies; Perhaps in the long run it is better that this case was NOT accepted, given that the conservatives on the Court might very well have been convinced that O'Connor might have voted to uphold the 9th Circuit given her sharp turn to the Left last term; Another reason why it is SO important that W. gets re-elected to appoint her replacement...

To tell you the truth it's time they heard one anyway ..... let the chips fall where they may to one side or the other ... at least it will finally be open that the feds have decided to scrap the Constitution.