Posted on 08/11/2005 12:31:49 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says not all rulings from America's highest court are correct, admitting judges don't have "some great special insight," and he defends the practice of studying courts in foreign countries to help decide cases in the United States.
Breyer made the remarks during a panel discussion this week in Chicago at the annual conference of the American Bar Association.
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BTW, IMO Japanese animation sucks...
Breyer Thinks the US Constitution is a SHIP.
I'm not saying they should interpret Scottish law, but that they could learn things from perhaps studying how the Scottish interpret their own laws. We just need to point them toward a country that exercises judicial restraint.
And I don't disagree, but the bottom line ($$$) disagrees with both of us.
So that is 4 at least...(until O'Connor is replaced)--
Scary, scary thought.
I was doing a pit stop by Air America this morning and a Canadian was on talking about how Canada has just made gay marriage legal, and they have socialized medicine, and they have places to GET drugs handed out...etc...
THEN he said that it is amazing how prehistoric America is compared to Canada and that there is a saying up there, something like the "brains" are above the border, the "braun" is below...gag me!!!
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests", I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can. -Barry Goldwater
Depends on which series you're talking about.
OK?
Then resign from the SCOTUS and go apply for work in France or Germany, or any place else where we can be rid of your worthless liberal ass.
He's not wrong.
I saw that CSPAN show too. I was really amazed at what a dithering airhead Breyer sounded like. He really sounded like a simp. And yes, he seemed like a flaming wussbag.
A caller to Rush today suggested that since Breyer is so enamored of foreign laws, we ought to adopt Blair's new directive to throw out muslim malcontents if they're not supporting Britain.
That's why you're supposed to follow the Constitution, you 'nad.
Maybe he's not right. Wink,wink, nudge,nudge.
I saw an unbelievable bumper sticker on a car today. Granted, I was in Vermont (unfortunately) and the sticker was on a Vermont car. It said "Terrorism: America's #1 Export" (or words to that effect).
How can anybody be that ignorant and malicious?
Um---being from Boulder, Colorado...I can just say---there must be certain "breeding areas" for ignorant people...and you and I have seen them up close and personal...
But you notice that none of these same states would tolerate a license tag that says "Choose life"!!!
I can tell you for sure that Vermont is one of those places. Home of Howard Dean, Bernie Sanders, "Jumping" Jim Jeffords, Patrick Leahy and Ben and Jerry (whose ice cream I absolutely will not buy and I don't care if they don't own it any more). I'm surprised there's any grass growing in Vermont's cemeteries, considering how some of the old timers in there must be spinning. Must be a lot of friction there :(
I live two blocks from a high school and belive me, we have places where drugs are handed out also. LOL.
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