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To: KC_Lion
Ummmmmm in Roe v. Wade the Burger court had 6 Judges appointed by Republicans.

Current court has 5. Lesson, Republicans suck at partisanship and are political idiots, especially in power. Listening to or adhering to "moderates" makes you stupid; same as voting for moderates as well.

41 posted on 10/07/2014 3:06:23 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: rollo tomasi; Oliviaforever
Lesson, Republicans suck at partisanship and are political idiots, especially in power. Listening to or adhering to "moderates" makes you stupid; same as voting for moderates as well.

Well, they did want progressives/democrats wanted, therefore, that makes them progressives, remember communist rule number 15: Capture one OR BOTH of the political parties in the United States.

43 posted on 10/07/2014 3:13:19 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: rollo tomasi

Well to be exact, in Roe the vote was 7-2, with Blackmun (Nixon appointee) writing the majority opinion, and the two dissenters were Rehnquist (Nixon) and White (JFK).
When the court reconsidered Roe in PP v. Casey (1992) the court (in conference voted to overrule Roe 5-4 with the votes of Rehnquist, White, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy.
Rehnquist as Chief assigned the majority opinion to himself.
Within mere weeks of the opinion being released Kennedy sent a note to Blackmun saying he was rethinking his vote. Blackmun smile and scribbled a note that said “Roe sound”.
On the eve of the opinion being released the story is that Scalia went to the home of Kennedy and made a last ditch effort to change his mind- to no avail.
Kennedy is a scourge on this nation and has been for a long time (since 1987 IIRC).
In fairness to Reagan who nominated him, he was the third choice after Bork and the male Ginsberg were voted down by a strong Dem majority in the senate.
The court has been all politics since.


55 posted on 10/07/2014 4:26:45 PM PDT by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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