Posted on 09/03/2005 8:07:24 PM PDT by kcvl
Condolences of course to Rehnquist's family...but yeah, the 21st century has opened with quite the tumult.
Ping to post 443...
Prayers for Justice Rehnquist and his family.
Sorry, but I partially disagree with you
Michael Luttig or Edith Clement for SCOTUS...right now...Let J.R. Brown "serve and season" in her newly sworn position. She is a fine jurist and her day will come - perhaps only 2 years into the next Republican {G_d willing} administration - say, in 2009 or 2010. How great would that be...?
I favor Scalia as the next Chief {nothing against Thomas whatsoever, only that Scalia has richly earned it, and Thomas, at 12 years Scalia's junior, will have his opportunity}.
Picture this in the year 2010 -
Scalia has been Chief Justice for 5 years, Michael Luttig was named {by George W} to replace him as an associate, as he himself replaced Rehnquist in the position of Chief.
Bush had named Edith Clement to replace Justice Stevens who passed on in late May of 2007, at age 87, and Clement was swiftly confirmed by a solid majority, owing to democrat seats lost in midterm elections in 2006......
President Cheney and VP Allen, after brief consultation with House and Senate Majority leaders announce the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to replace Bader-Ginsburg
{retiring due to health reasons at age 77}.
With the expected confirmation of J.R. Brown, the court will maintain two women in its makeup, and a solidly Constitutionalist foundation in Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Luttig, Clement, and Brown herself. Breyer and Souter are both showing their age and one or the other is expected to announce their retirement before the end of Cheney/Allen's term in 2012. Only Kennedy remains stolidly entrenched in fair health and of the same age as Chief Justice Scalia {both born in 1936}
Together, these three anachronistic liberals provide little more than dissenting opinion amusement, (and op-ed "remember when/glory days" fodder for the SlimeStreamMedia,) voting reliably together in a block everytime, all the time regardless of the issue simply for the sake of being opposition to the Constitutionalist/constructionist 2/3 majority.
Issues such as Roe v Wade, and Kelo v London have been revisited, with Kelo being vacated outright and given a blistering critique by Chief Justice Scalia and associate Roberts who personally co-authored the majority opinion.
Roe was given lesser weight, and simply returned to the states with the cautionary that it not proceed to circuit or appellate levels except "under the most extenuating of circumstances..."
Texas' sodomy law(s) were restored in a challenge which saw the majority opinion authored by Clement and Thomas, critical of the "international law" cited in the original decision by Bader-Ginsburg, deliver a stinging rebuke which included the phrase "...an American Constitution, and an American moral framework of law for the American people, to whom we are responsible..."
It's so crazy, it just might work!
AmericanArchConservative
"...And justice for all!"
Well the Roberts debate is for all practical purposes over.
Damn shame.
Next up is going to be interesting.
Let the Games begin!
Scalia has been Chief Justice for 5 years, Michael Luttig was named {by George W} to replace him as an associate, as he himself replaced Rehnquist in the position of Chief.
[snipped for brevity] You forgot this one...
Former Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) began serving her sentence at the Albion Correctional Facility following her conviction for manslaughter in the shooting death of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court based on the "cuckolded spouse justification defense" was summarily rejected unanimously by the Court.
Don't be excited. That rat of Stevens will not resign before 2008, be sure of this. He is healthy and a strong advocate of liberal "issues" (anti-life, pro-choice, anti-business, and so on)! Some months ago, he name two young Yale lawyer to help him in Court...
Don't be excited. That rat of Stevens will not resign before 2008, be sure of this. He is healthy and a strong advocate of liberal "issues" (anti-life, pro-choice, anti-business, and so on)! Some months ago, he named two young Yale lawyers to help him in Court...
May he rest in peace.
I will pray for his family. I wish he had had some retirement time to spend with his family before the end. Although I'm thinking he wanted to work to keep his mind off the cancer.
God rest his soul. So much has happened in the last few years. I believe as strongly as ever that God does indeed bless our Nation. He put a good man at the helm.
Prayers from TX
Election night in 1980 I was hosting the election coverage for my radio stations. We had ABC news. The polls closed in the east at 6:30 EST. We carried the 5 minute newscast a 6:30. Abc said in that news cast it was too close to call.
I got the latest AP wire copy and started our coverage at 6:30 by going to each of our three local reporters.. two covering local races and one carrying state races. We were using ABC to cover the national race. After the last of the three had done 30 seconds each It was 6:38Pm. I started to read an AP story date and time stamped at 6:33Pm. It said the race was too close to call. I was in the middle of saying it might be a very long night when my producer told me in my earphones to join ABC at 6:40Pm. Jimmy Carter who was in Plains Georgia and was going to concede.
Jimmy Carter announced to the networks just as the polls closed at 6:30 that he was going to concede. They asked him to wait 10 minutes so all the network stations could be notified to join the network to cover his concession.
By the way Reagan won 489 electoral votes to Carters 49. But according to the media at 6:33PM.. the race was two close to call. That was 2 minutes after Carter told them he was going to concede.
A few months later I ran into Pat Buchanan and he said that he was at CBS at noon when the exit polls came in. The networks and AP all knew by noon EST that it was a Reagan landslide. Yet six and a half hours later they were still saying the Carter Reagan race was too close to call.
They were lying.
Nothing has changed. The media is lying... The president knows they are lying. Karl Rove knows they are lying. The Washington press corp knows they are lying. Most Senators and Congressmen know they are lying.
They hope to change public opinion by lying. They are failing. Each time they fail, they lose clout with politicians.
So the media like the Washington Post and CNN try ever more biased and outrageous attempts to destroy the president. They think the public is stupid. Some of them are.. But the middle class that make up the swing voters in the USA are not stupid.
The meida thinks people do not remember that they said that disasters are local business. That it was the Mayor in NEW YORK and not the president who was responsible for the good handling of 911. People saw the New Orleans mayor all over TV. He made an ass out of himself with his whinging.
They will draw their own conclusions. People who think the media thinks for the unknowing and ignorant, don't understand that the unkonwing and ignorant do not watch news on TV, listen to news on the radio or read papers.
Those activices are limited to those that can think.
The media thinks their audience is dumb. The audience is not. They see through the media.. That's why the media polls far worse nunbers than President Bush.
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If that's so--yuck!
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