A Review of the Sotomayor Supreme Court

http://thegoreyears.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/a-review-of-the-sotomayor-supreme-court/ ^

[zendari]

At the end of a bitterly divided Supreme Court term, conservatives are by turns fighting mad and full of despair. Although Chief Justice Sonia Sotomayor began the term by calling for greater consensus, a third of cases were decided by 6-3 votes, the highest percentage in more than ten years.The polarization inspired the three conservative justices to write some of their most passionate, vindictive, and memorable dissents. But how pessimistic should conservatives really be about the future of the Court?Just after the term ended, I had an opportunity to interview Justice Antonin Scalia about the Court’s role in American democracy at the Big Reno Gun Show in Reno, Nevada.

[zendari]

A scary thought experiment of what could have been.

Just a reminder of what is at stake. We are on the verge of winning the judicial branch of government for a generation.

[muir_redwoods]

If one decides to sit out the election because a Republican candidate that you don't like wins the nomination, think of these six words.

Supreme Court Justice William Jefferson Clinton

[Bigh4u2]

Never going to happen.

[pnh102]

Amen.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

He would’nt live that long anyway.

[paudio]

If one decides to sit out the election because a Republican candidate that you don't like wins the nomination, think of these six words. Supreme Court Justice William Jefferson Clinton

Trying to scare some people this way apparently isn't working. After all, they didn't care when people said, "Speaker Pelosi" or "Majority Leader Reid".

[muir_redwoods]

"Trying to scare some people this way apparently isn't working. After all, they didn't care when people said, "Speaker Pelosi" or "Majority Leader Reid"."

They can be voted out. A supreme court judgeship is for life. He's relatively young and could serve for 30 years

[Philo1962]

“The Gore Years”? What a nutball.

And yes, William Jefferson Clinton could replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. And he could live just as long.

[Cicero]

Unfortunately, if Giuliani were elected president, his SCOTUS appointments would be just as bad as hillary’s.

You can explain the 2006 election fiasco in three ways:

1) Sixth year elections usually go against the incumbent party.

2) Republican voters stupidly stayed home in disgust, giving the Dems the edge.

3) The President and congressional Republicans repeatedly disappointed their base and kicked them in the teeth in Bush’s second term, and ran a number of bad candidates like Lincoln Chaffee as well, which caused a lot of the base to stay home.

It was a little of all three. If the party is STUPID enough to nominate someone like Giuliani, and maybe Huckabee, then I’m sorry to say they will deserve to lose, because their SCOTUS appointments will be just as bad as hillary’s.

The solution is not to vote for absolutely anyone who is nominated, but to nominate someone that decent people can square it with their consciences to vote for. We need to solve this problem in the primaries and the convention, and not go into November with an impossible choice.

[muir_redwoods]

"It was a little of all three. If the party is STUPID enough to nominate someone like Giuliani, and maybe Huckabee, then I’m sorry to say they will deserve to lose, because their SCOTUS appointments will be just as bad as hillary’s."

You don't remember Zoe Baird? Hillary is capable of much greater evil than any republican running. None of them would nominate Bill Clinton and that's her way to hang onto power for life. It's much scarier than anything Huckabee or Giuliani would do.

[zendari]

Unfortunately, if Giuliani were elected president, his SCOTUS appointments would be just as bad as hillary’s.

You're an idiot. I doubt Giuliani does half as bad as Reagan or Bush Sr.