Posted on 06/07/2005 4:38:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Scalia wants to be Chief Justice. No more need be said...
I do have to say that Scalia's rationale left me scratching my head. I guess he doesn't want to open the tent to the camel's nose of marijuana, but he sacrificed a lot of conservative principles to do that.
I feel Thomas or Scalia would be a great choice. I think Bush will nominate Thomas just to watch the rats attack a black man.
Thomas and Rhenquist wanted to go for the brass ring of the extraconstitutional 'Intrastate Commerce Clause', Scalia wanted no part of it and thus stare decisis won the day.
Why not? 'Cause he's hoping to make Chief Justice, that's why.
I'm now even more certain than before, that Thomas is the best on that bench, and would make the best Chief Justice.
That is the most insulting thing I have ever heard about Justice Scalia. Perhaps it's true, but he may have made this decision anyway. Do you really think Bush would factor something like this into his decision. Doesn't matter anyway, Hillary Clinton is going to choose the next chief justice, and it won't be Scalia.
Just like conservatives on FR, Scalia and Thomas can disagree.
Each has a good case. I just believe that Thomas has the better case (in this instance).
Have to agree. Scalia politicking for Chief Justice.
Scalia:"Let's ask the 3,500,000 hippies, dope dealers, and Bay Area-educated physicians camped out in the backyard who are anxiously waiting for a go-ahead so they can shove 1,000,000 tons of legal marijuana through that loophole."
Thomas: "Aw, nothing like that will ever happen. The California Assembly promises it won't. Pot will only be used for serious illnesses like backaches. Not even a leaf or single seed of it will leave California and enter the surrounding states, and citizens of surrounding states will not come to California to be prescribed bales of marijuana they can take home in their car trunks. They know they would be in BIG TROUBLE if they did, so I'm sure they won't do that."
Scalia: "You probably believe there will be no money changing hands either, no graymarket let alone a blackmarket for the stuff."
Thomas: "My faith in tormented, suffering, pot-smoking mankind and in the good intentions of the California Assembly is unbounded."
Scalia: "The elected representatives of all the people, including the people who live in states surrounding California, had a different opinion about that when they passed a law to keep that loophole closed, and I cannot conclude theirs is an unreasonable opinion."
Thomas: "Aw, lighten up. It's just two middle-aged ladies growing a little pot in a window sill box. What harm can it cause? I want to judicially legislate an exception just for them. It's the compassionate thing to do."
Could not have said it better myself.
There was no alterior motive by Scalia, he just had a different opinion, him and Thomas do differ sometimes.
Thinking men with spines, like Scalia, are calling it true.
Excellent analysis. The Thomas view of stare decisis is the only way to right the wrongs of past activist courts.
Ya think?
Scalia would not know an unenumerated right if it bit him on the ass. He is apperently too weak to take on the FDR New Deal legacy. Why do we need a chief like that?
Very odd for a "conservative" to support the Socialist New Deal pervertion of the commerce clause.
I'm now even more certain than before, that Thomas is the best on that bench, and would make the best Chief Justice.
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Perhaps, but I think I'd rather see this women:
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable. Indeed, the majority's zeal is more than a little endearing. There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The public school system is already so beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
How do you plan to keep Rehnquist alive, much less chief justice, for the next three years until Widebutt runs?
All the mindless sheep are bleating the trendy answer in support of pot.
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Are they? I don't know a single elected Republican offical who has come out in favor of drug legalization (if there are exceptions they just make the rule).
I think the many people who are against our tyrannical drug laws are against them because they think outside of the box... not march with the 'conservative' drum.
I'm not going to do anything. But even if Rehnquist does resign, it's more than probable President Bush will be unable to replace him.
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