Posted on 08/04/2007 2:34:33 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
“One must question whether Justice Breyer has violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by seeking congressional intervention to stop his colleagues from expressing their reasoned legal opinions with which he disagrees.”
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Does anyone know about Arlen Specter possibly investigating John Roberts and Samuel Alito over whether they were honest in their testimony before the U.S. Senate. Well, Specter said that he got the idea when he said he ran into Breyer at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado .
Here is a quote: “I only noticed it in a couple of cases,” Specter said of the court overturning or undermining precedents. But Breyer, in their Aspen conversation, said “there were eight.”
This is no way for a justice on the Supreme Court to conduct himself.
Breyer. Isn’t he the Clinton appointed justice?
There was a news report this past week suggesting Specter wants to investigate what both Roberts and Alito said in their confirmation hearings versus their decisions on a couple of cases this past month. Poor Arlan must feel betrayed that it is possible a Supreme Court Justice “might” rule against Senator Specter’s opinions/interests.
I don’t think even Scottish law has that provision so I don’t expect this to go anywhere. Arlan is bluster, without principle.
True, but... I have noticed from Breyer’s statements and his writings(published) outside of the court that he is firmly implanted in the Clinton/Liberal theology that if you want to “do good” you can ignore the Constitution. As time goes along, we see the leftist getting bolder about running over individual rights to satisfy their elitist attitude of "we know whats good for the poor misguided ignorant masses." One thing that’s got Breyer’s judicial panties in a wad is the courts rejecting of discrimination for “diversity” sake. Apparently Breyer must disagree with every decision that doesn’t go his way, after all he thinks he’s the smartest man on the court.
Yes, Clinton appointed him. He was born in 1938. He could be one to retire soon, along with Ruth Buzzy-Bader Ginsberg, born in 1933.
With the way things are now, most of the Justices won’t take the risk of an ideological opposite taking their place, so they’ll stay until they’re carried out feet-first. The late Chief Justice Rehnquist stayed on the bench in great pain to prevent Clintoon from appointing one of his stooges in his place, and that demonstrated enormous character. In the case of JP Stevens (who is older than Rehnquist) is trending towards 90, and that sorry old liberal fool should’ve retired 15 years ago. Breyer and Buzzy will try to match his longevity.
This master of no common sense has outlived his usefulness as an obvious communist social engineer. Breyer should pack his little red Maoist book and move to North Korea where he’ll be comfortable with a totalitarian dictatorship, and there are millions of poor souls he can torment.
Breyer couldn’t make up his mind whether to serve his country as an elected legislator or as a progressive appointed justice doing the work the Democrat politicians can’t.
Breyer couldn’t make up his mind whether to serve his country as an elected legislator or as a progressive appointed justice doing the work the Democrat politicians can’t.
Hiccup
Arlen Specter ia just one of many “Poster Boys” for term limits. He is becoming more and more senile and deranged.
Yes. But the NK people will surely be comforted by the fact that under a Breyer regime, they will be able to sodomize one another and kill their babies as sacred, God-given rights.
Breyer would, however, be very uncomfortable. As he would be NK, he would have to look to international decisions (including US precedent). This would be the first time that US precedent, especially the Constitution, played any role in his decisions.
None of the Libs on the court will voluntarily leave as long as GWB is President. Too bad.
It seems to me that if the FBI is not allowed to investigate William Jefferson’s legislative actions due to separation of powers, then Arlen Sphinctre is likewise precluded from investigating Justices Alito and Roberts for exactly the same reasons.
Very good point. Also, justices are appointed to the Supreme Court for life. They can be impeached, if Arlen (and his buddy Schumer) thinks he’s up to it, but he’ll have to show cause before he can call for impeachment. A fishing expedition won’t cut it.
Bottom line is, nothing they said in their confirmation hearings have been undone by their most recent decisions. They have an obligation to look at every case before them and rule on its CONSTITUTIONALITY. How the hell can Specter have a problem with that?
If Supreme Court justices voting differently after they’re confirmed is a crime, than Souter (Pres G H W Bush) and Stevens (Pres Ford) both have a lot ot answer for.
I have an idea for Arlen—lets investigate Breyer for suggesting that the Constitution should be trumped by International law. Maybe if Arlen and his buddies succeed in bringing in 50M+ new Mexican peasants, we won’t have to worry about that pesky Constitution anymore.
“In the case of JP Stevens (who is older than Rehnquist) is trending towards 90, and that sorry old liberal fool should’ve retired 15 years ago.”
True, but while Stevens shared the Clinton’s liberalism, he disliked the Clintons personally, regarding them as weasels. He was hoping that Gore would name his replacement.
With longevity increasing, I'd say there's a good case for expanding the court to 11, and imposing 22-year term limits, staggered to produce a vacancy every 2 years. A two-term president would therefore name 4 out of the eleven justices . . . leaving it at nine would make 4 justices too much to give to one POTUS.Term limiting Justices would of course require a constitutional amendment . . .
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