Posted on 04/30/2009 7:07:15 PM PDT by RDTF
NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the court's current term.
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We can always hope for another Justice White. I’m sure Obama will pick someone who’s a member of the ACS though.
that’s never going to happen...
All three are liberals-so what!
Roy Pearson ; )
If he’s smart, he’ll pick someone with the views of Brennan, the stealthiness of Souter, and the calmness of Roberts. If he picks a firebreather, that could cause the libs serious problems when trying to win over Kennedy. Breyer would have to work even harder on that than he does now, Iol. I doubt Obama wants that.
bump with no comment.
they should just take that scale out of lady justice's hand and replace it with a harvesting sickle in one hand and a hammer in the other
Aye. This is the real penalty. McCain may be a RINO, but at least if he had won we wouldn’t be facing pure socialist SCOTUS members.
Sort of like... Arlen Spector?
Don't laugh....Arlen could be the next Supreme Court Justice.
I tend to be an optomist. I don’t think we can get anyone much more liberal than Souter wound up being. In the history of the supreme court many appointments have been rather surprising - many republican appointees became much more liberal. Historically there have been some liberals that became more moderate - so I would have to say that it is time for a Dem pick to wind up being the equivalent of Republican Souter or Kennedy pick - a liberal that moves center-right. There is a chance, especially since justices in general see themselves as a counter balance to the executive and legislative branches - which have obviously tilted heavily left. Keep the faith and keep fighting.
Souter was a moderate when GHW Bush nominated him but turned into a liberal along the way. Happily for us, GHWB also nominated Thomas who cancels Souter out. Clinton got in two liberals which bumped the court leftward. Reagan put in one conservative, Scalia and two swing voters, Kennedy and O’Connor.
Unhappily for us, older conservatives can degenerate into swing voters, but older liberals never improve.
I don’t think there are any qualifications, per se, for Supreme Court Justice. He could appoint his cousin Odinga if he wanted to.
So Zer0 gets to replace Souter, Stevens and Buzzy Ginsburg. BFD.
How much worse can you get? Raging lib direct replacement is all it will be.
Trying to rationalize myself out of complete despair here...
60 votes?
Isn't filibustering judges unconstitutional?
How I miss Dubya.
I smell the return of Lani Guineir and it reeks bigtime.
He’ll nominate a nominal woman....read Lesbian....so the GIRLIE MEN Republicans won’t be able to say NO to her. Orrin Hatch comes to mind.
Rest assured, no matter who the brown clown nominates will make David Souter look like Robert Bork.
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