A Supreme Job Opening on Capitol Hill

Illinois Review ^ | April 9, 2010 A.D. | John F. Di Leo

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A Supreme Job Opening on Capitol Hill by John F. Di Leo

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has announced his plans to retire, after some 35 years on the bench. Rather than focusing on the depressing aspects of this news, let’s focus on the bright side, and on the opportunities this will afford our country.

The Vote

We can take advantage of this news to (again) remind our friends who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 of the importance of their vote in presidential elections. We all know people who were so bored or angered by Senator McCain that they voted for a known socialist, asking “how could he be worse?”

Well, now we know.

In a nation of hundreds of thousands of lawyers, President Obama managed to find one of the absolute worst for his first appointment to the bench in 2009: Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Is there any reason to hope he won’t do this same this time?

Expect another radical socialist of the same stripe when this appointment is made. When you vote for president, you aren’t just voting for four years; you’re voting for the twenty, thirty, even forty years… the duration in which his many lifetime appointees will continue to serve.

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[WayneS]

I just can't WAIT to see how enraged (and deeply saddened) I beome when "The Man Who Would Be King" names his wholly and stunningly unqualified, Constitution-hating choice to replace the wholly unqualified, Constitution-hating "justice" Stevens.

;-)

[David]

Well with all due respect, the politics of this may not be as bad as they appear.

The Constitution requires that a Supreme Court Justice shall be appointed by the President (with the advice and consent of the Senate).

Since Obama is not eligible to hold the office of President, the office is vacant. And his appointment of a replacement justice is void.

That presents an opportunity to raise the legal issue of his eligibility to hold the office in an indirect action by seeking to disqualify the Supreme Court justice he appoints. Any litigant before the Supreme Court would have standing; the issue would be justiciable.

The opportunity exists today with respect to Sonya Sotomayor. If Obama actually appoints a replacement for Stevens, the opportunity exists there also.

[RockyMtnMan]

or.... Allow the appointment and then later revoke it based on his ineligibility at the time, thereby allowing the next administration to make 2 appointments at minimum.