"Whaaaaaaaht?!"
Posted on 09/05/2006 2:52:18 PM PDT by lunarbicep
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a moderate conservative and often decisive vote, was hospitalized for a stent procedure after experiencing mild chest pains, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Kennedy, 70, underwent "a routine procedure" at Washington Hospital Center on September 2. "This was a revision to a stent procedure performed in November 2005," she said in a brief statement.
Arberg said there was no evidence of any heart damage. She said Kennedy was discharged from the hospital on Sunday morning and had returned to his duties at the court, which is currently in recess.
Kennedy often casts the decisive vote on the nine-member court that is deeply divided with four liberal justices and four conservatives. He has become the key swing vote after the retirement early in the year of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Since when is Justice Kennedy a moderate conservative?
Kennedy is a moderate conservative? Really? Best wishes for complete recovery anyway.
"...pray for those in authority over you..."
Heart pains, partial blockage, stint--that is the news I just heard on the TV
Prayers for a successful procedure, Justice Kennedy, and that you may see the light as well.
It a Rooters piece. There are only four political orientations: Moderate, Moderate-Conservative, Conservative and Ultra-Conservative. You'll notice that places Stevens, Ruth Buzzi and Gindburg in the Moderate camp, just where the MSM wants the folks to think that's where they rule.
and a complete retirement.
He is generally better than O'Conner was.
Prayers for a successful procedure.
Moderate conservative by pelosi standards.
I hope he makes a swift recovery and is replaced by Janice Rogers Brown.
I posted this...did several searches and couldn't find anything on it...glad to see more than I could find. All I did was hear it on local news. We were obviously posting at the same time that must be way the search was useless.
I will have to take your word for it, I always lined him up with the lefties. I was never very impressed with O'Connor, and usually lumped her in with the left also. That way when she did something sensible I would be pleasantly surprised. :O)
"Whaaaaaaaht?!"
Seemed to work .. and he was back to golfing in no time
When the MSM tells us that...to hell with his opinion ruling record that doesn't count...
Center-Right would have been more appropriate.
Does anyone else remember Pat Roberts publicly praying, in the past year or so, for an unnamed Justice with a heart condition? I wonder if this was who he had in mind?
Lowers cholesterol lots...I had a friend who had a heart attack...his cholesterol was 310...he started on the above in 6 weeks it was down to 140.
Misplaced humor...
Compared to O'Conner, he is a moderate conservative.
Lowers cholesterol lots...I had a friend who had a heart attack...his cholesterol was 310...he started on the above in 6 weeks it was down to 140.
My fear is that to some fringes of society he is considered an ultra- conservative
Really? Do you have a couple of examples where he was on the right side when O'Connor was not? (Mind you, I don't come down as an O'Connor fan as she only seemed to be on the right side when her vote didn't matter.)
ML/NJ
Really? Do you have a couple of examples where he was on the right side when O'Connor was not? (Mind you, I don't come down as an O'Connor fan as she only seemed to be on the right side when her vote didn't matter.)
ML/NJ
If you're not certifiably insane or a complete imbecile, that makes you either conservative or, failing that, moderate conservative.
Kennedy needs an intestinal guts of courage transplant.
I can cite many more cases...Another friend in particular had high cholesterol, she just added this to her diet never changed her diet at all...her cholesterol was 280 in 6 wks it was 120
Oh my...there are so many more benefits...
Kennedy was the 5th vote that stopped the count in Florida. O'Connor did not support Gore's position but did not support stopping the nonsense in Florida. Kennedy is also tends to be a bit sympathetic on issues such as parental consent and partial birth abortion. O'Connor was a huge pro-abortionists. The only case I remember O'Connor to the right of Kennedy was Kelo.
swiftly.
You'd need perhaps 1 cup of cottage cheese, split in 2 to 4 doses per day, or perhaps three times that much yogurt (live culture, not the the usual supermarket yogurts), if even that would be enough.
And there's more to that diet than just cottage cheese and flaxseed oil. Avoiding many of the over processed fats and oils that are so prevalent in our modern day diet is crucial.
See further The Budwig Diet- Flaxseed Oil & Cottage Cheese.
"U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a moderate conservative"
Huh???
My mother told me to not speak ill of the dead, so I'll keep my mouth shut.
Stent or no stent---It's time for Mr. Kennedy to retire...like yesterday!
One more...one more...one more...and then another one.
Well, I don't want to knock the poor guy when he's suffering from bad health, so let's just say that I hope he recovers from the operation and resigns from the court sometime soon.
He is one of Reagan's two biggest mistakes - O'Connor being the other.
He was good at a lot of things, but picking SC judges (one for three) and raising non-adopted children were not two of them.
Having said that...my friend will NOT change her habits at all...yet, her cholesterol is way below what it's ever been in her adult life..with Flaxseed Oil and yogurt once a day in the AM...
Are you aware that cholesterol problems is actually caused from refined sugar?
Maybe Justice Kennedy will decide he wants to do something other than die on the bench. Go home and enjoy the grandkids or whatever else you have in your life Justice Kennedy.
For one thing, Kennedy voted to uphold the Nebraska partial-birth abortion ban, while O'Connor cast the deciding vote striking down the law. That's a pretty big difference right there. /p/
And, just looking at 2003-2005, here are some other cases in which O'Connor voted with the liberals to form a majority while Kennedy voted with the conservatives: /p/
O'Connor was the 5th vote declaring that the Ten Commandments could not be displayed in two Kentucky courthouses---Kennedy voted the right way. /p/
O'Connor cast the deciding vote expanding the private cause of action for sex discrimination under Title IX to include people who complained about discrimination even when such persons were not discriminated against---again, Kennedy voted the right way. /p/
O'Connor cast the deciding vote in interpreting the Clean Air Act to authorize the EPA to override state-issued Clean Air Act permits---Kennedy did no such thing. /p/
O'Connor was the 5th vote and co-authored that horrible opinion in McConnell v. FEC that upheld the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance "Reform"; Kennedy voted with the dissenters that upheld the First Amendment. /p/
O'Connor was the 5th vote and wrote the opinion upholding the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action program, thus cementing state-sponsored racial discrimination---Kennedy was one of the dissenters. /p/
So, while Anthony Kennedy os no conservative, he is clearly a more reasonable Justice than Sandra Day O'Connor, and we are far better off with a Supreme Court in which Kennedy is the swing vote than one in which O'Connor is the swing vote. But then again, in case Justice Stevens is reading this, I'd much rather have a Court in which John Roberts is the swing vote. : )
Anthony Kennedy os no conservative = Anthony Kennedy is no conservative
Kennedy needs to retire, NOW!!!
What is a "moderate conservative?"
Moderate Conservative?
Moderate Liberal most likely.
My how the language has been twisted by the MSM orwellians.
Pray more for those who put in office the ones "with authority over you."
Uhhh....Which light is that Bah Bah?
Good question. The answer is that he is a moderate conservative when the libs outnumber the conservatives by 5 to 3. When it's 4 to 4 then he turns lib. You will note that in both cases the libs win. Go figure.
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