Will Justice Stevens Retire?

Political Wire ^ | December 13, 2006

[Young Scholar]

What does his position on immigrant visas have to do with his judicial philosophy?

[Zack Nguyen]

I apologize for misstating what you said.

No problem at all! I think you and I are on the same page. Very few Republican Senators are willing to go over the cliff on a matter of principle.

[sergeantdave]

I don't get to talk about Stevens much here on FR, but I hope Stevens suffers in hell as much as he caused the good citizens to suffer in the northwest.

Stevens destroyed logging jobs with his asinine decisions. He destroyed schools. He destroyed restaurants, hardware stores, ice cream shops, churches and small towns all over America.

He ripped communities apart from his comfortable chair in Washington DC.

I consider Stevens and Bruce Babbitt to be on par with Heinrich Himmler, trying to establish Hitler's fascist lebensraum here in America.

Stevens is evil. Period.

[Rembrandt]

GWB can nominate anyone, even someone who isn't in the Government. He selected Tony Snow to be his press voice and Mr. Snow is doing an excellent job. A person who could do an excellent job on the SCOTUS is Judge Napolitano.

[upchuck]

To push a nomination through a Democratic Senate, Bush may choose a U.S. Senator, a suggestion once recommended by incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Ont he short list: Mike DeWine (R-OH), Mel Martinez (R-FL), Mike Crapo (R-ID) or Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC).

ABP (Anybody but Pandsey).

If Graham goes to the SCOTUS, he would give up his Senate seat. His successor would be appointed by Governor Sanford, a proven conservative.

This would save Pandsey the embarrassment of loosing in the primary.

And I'm sure Gov. Sanford would appoint a solid conservative to take Pandsey's place.

But, Lordy, do we want uber-RINO Pandsey on the SCOTUS for life? I think not. For some of the reasons, see Anita1's excellent reply at number 9 above.

Personally, I'd rather keep the status quo and watch him get defeated in the primary.

Lindsey Ping

Add me to the list. / Remove me from the list.

[California Patriot]

We need to know how a person has previously dealt with the Constitution while in an actual position to interpret it.
We need to see a real-world record of resistance to liberal interpretations in actual cases. Nothing else will do. The fact that the Constitution doesn't require a member to be a judge or even a lawyer is irrelevant. There are many minimal requirements in the Constitution. They shouldn't be our only guide. What you're giving us here is just thoughtless, knee-jerk populism. There is far too much at stake to put a largely untested amateur on the Supreme Court.

[Piranha]

I don't know anything about what you wrote. What are you referring to, specifically?

[rockrr]

"...or Lindsey Graham (R-SC)" Damn! I almost spit up I laughed so hard at that! Why don't we just put up Mark Foley - I hear he's looking for work ;'}

[1L]

>>Clarence Thomas was rejected by the Judiciary Committee<<

This isn't true. The vote was 7-7.

[scrabblehack]

Hugo Black (1937-1971). By historical standards, there have been 5 distinct career paths to the SCOTUS, each about equally used until recent times.

As I recall they were:

politician
executive branch
private attorney
federal judge
I want to say the 5th was state court judge.

When Bork was rejected, several current and former US Senators names were bandied about. At the time it was thought that the Senate would not reject a former or sitting US Senator out of senatorial courtesy. I don't know if that feeling still exists on Capitol Hill.

A sitting US Senator nowadays would require enabling legislation to reduce the pay of the seat.

[scrabblehack]

I think O'Connor was the most recent SCOTUS member to ever have been elected to anything, and then Rehnquist was Deputy Attorney General or some such immediately before his nomination.

[Churchillspirit]

Thanks for your replies.

Very interesting.

[Churchillspirit]

Interesting. Thanks.

[kabar]

Harriet Miers. Let's see if the Dems like her as much the first time around.

[NeoCaveman]

Any Bush nominee to the SC is dead. The people even speculating here delusional.

Then all 5-4 conservative losses become 4-4 ties and the important circuits (like D.C.) are conservative. So they'd be upheld as a tie means circuit ruling stands. That's a win-win.

[kabar]

No one nominated by George W. Bush to serve on the Supreme Court will be ratified by the Senate, nor is it at all likely that any Bush nominee to certain appellate courts could be ratified by the Senate

Wrong. If there is a SCOTUS vancancy in 2007, there will be a replacement nominated by Bush and approved by the Senate.

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!!!

[absolootezer0]

that took way too long, it took 34 replies to bring that one up.

corrigan would also a pretty good choice.

[alarm rider]

I'll stand right next to you.

[kabar]

The WH will find a compromise candidate if necessary. They will not leave the seat vacant for up to two years and have the next President fill it.