Posted on 08/13/2007 9:49:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy painted a dismal picture of injustice and lack of opportunity in much of the world, then told lawyers Monday that they must do something.
Kennedy used a ceremony in which the American Bar Association presented him its highest award to talk about the plight of rape victims who must pay a fee before they file a complaint, young girls used by their families to have sex with tourists, prisoners who develop gangrene because they get no medical care.
"The rule of law and your own freedom are not secure unless you address problems in those countries," Kennedy said. "What can you do about it? Heave the kind of mandatory sigh of despair and then go on because no concrete solutions are being offered? But we have no other choice."
Kennedy received the ABA Medal. Past recipients include Justices William Brennan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thurgood Marshall and Sandra Day O'Connor.
How Victorian.
Oh brother.
Hmmm. So he wants to cure injustice with more lawyering. Good plan. You can always tell when lawyers have been around, cause justice is jsut everywhere.
Is this more Scottish Law?
Bush beats Reagan on judges hands down.
by default only. Some of us haven’t forgotten the idiocy that was the Miers nomination.
The textbook definition of why we need to vote Republican in 2008 no matter what unless we want more of this type of nonsense.
“Anthony Kennedy painted a dismal picture of injustice”
“(Supreme Court Justice Anthony) Kennedy urges action against injustice”
You mean, like, overturning Roe v. Wade?
That’s because Harriet Miers was actually Cheri Blair. Ever notice that they are never in the same place?
Nam Vet
President Bush still wins.
Ms. Miers might have been OK -- we'll never know. Mr. Kennedy, on the other hand...
bttt!
Yes. Sounds like he wants power to impose his views on world law now, but; he knew the audience he was playing up to.
I’d argue against that. Right before she withdrew her nomination there were several speeches of hers that came to light in support of abortion rights. Even Dobson remarked that his support would be withdrawn. So no. She would not have a a good justice or even a halfway decent one. She would have been another mushy liberal like O’Connor or Kennedy...at best!
And we're supposed to sponsor his foolish and doomed expeditions - projects that are meant to solve problems he largely imagines.
Most importantly, we should all feel badly. After we kill a million innocents in our quest to help others, then we can feel good about "trying".
Kennedy reminds me of Rick Warren, when asked what he wanted on his tombstone, his response was "At least I tried".
Warren, Kennedy, "Bono"... beware of these devils.
Regarding Miers: think “mileage”.
Roberts is ten years younger. That’s a lot of time before retirement, assuming death doesn’t catch him sooner for some fateful reason.
....and the Kelo decision, as well.
The partial birth decision, which won't save a single baby, had a majority decision written by Kennedy, in which he attempts to root Roe deeper into American jurisprudence.
So, I consider any protestations by him about "injustice" to be empty. Bleh.
Lawyers are the world’s salvation. NOT!
I wouldn’t call Rick Warren a devil (at this point in time) but his fame and fortune have certainly turned his heart from God and Godly principles to being the self-appointed, “Smartest Man in America”.
Gag me with a Purposed Driven Life workbook.
“... if my Neighbour hath a Mind to my Cow, he hires a Lawyer to prove that he ought to have my Cow from me.”
( IV:5;13)
It is a Maxim among these Lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again:
(IV:5;15)
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Then how do you account for Harriet’s being so much better looking than Mrs. Blair? Hmmm?
The White Man’s Burden. ROFLMAO. Anytime legal man shows up he wants a fat slice of your pie.
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