Posted on 06/27/2009 6:39:31 PM PDT by neverdem
They're just wrong on different issues. What about Kelo? Roe? Casey? Lopez? Almost anything having to do with guns (though the "conservatives hardly get full credit for this one either)?
Invariably? No, of course not. But it’s a potential bias that the courts till now have been intent on hiding. Like when they won’t let you argue the Constitution at trial, only on appeal, or when the judge is allowed to lie to you and tell you you’re not allowed to nullify. Remember, the defense doesn’t HAVE to use this, it just gives them the option in those cases where they want to. And your point about billing by the hour is certainly well taken.
And I’m not saying they’re not honest, or at least the majority, but the jury might take their findings with a little less weight if they stop and think who they work for. Not just dismiss them entirely like a liberal would, just don’t take everything they at face value without thinking.
Indeed - very odd alliance of justices.
Not carelessness. At that point, nobody knew the stuff was dangerous. But she found out.
I think you may have hit on something. When someone gets arrested for violating an EPA regulation based on their false science you can now haul the “scientist” into court:)
Right? :)
And fortunately, it sides with the individual over the state.
That's what makes it unusual! (Sorta kidding) Good news on Safford, too, except my man CT is off the reservation. Not sure what his point is and have sufficient respect for him over the years to read what he has to say before criticizing. Not sure how anyone could side with Safford on this, though. (They strip searched a girl looking for Advil!!)
I agree, in my opinion Thomas is the best Justice in terms of original intent and protecting the individual over the state.
I agree, which makes it really hard to see why he would vote for the state in what seems like such a clear cut case. They strip searched her looking for Advil!! If I were on the court, not only would they lose this case, but for the first time in history, SCOTUS would be handing down directly from their bench long terms in a FPMITAP!
Up thread I was having a exchange with a poster who said that despite his knee jerk reaction, he found the conservative justices pro-govt, and the liberals pro-individual. I think liberals are just statist on different (and more) issues and gave some examples, but I do grant that the conservatives hardly vote like principled Constitutional scholars. But Thomas?? He's the one I generally hold above any criticism at all. I almost said in that exchange that what we need are eight more Thomases.
Most people are going to think strip searching is the nuclear option when it comes to the powers of a school district, to be employed under only the most extreme and unquestionable justification. They hear this and they'll probably think something like "Well, strip searching is pretty severe even for drugs, but maybe her family are known drug dealers or something". The newscast gave no hint that they were stripping her naked to verify an uncorroborated tip that she was doing something that WASN'T EVEN ILLEGAL! Talk about sham reporting.
Sorry. I meant my post 31 to be addressed to you.
Oh, and Grisham, while his fiction is excellent (I think I’ve read all of it, as well as An Innocent Man), is a hard core liberal. Look at his characters, and what they’re doing that’s bad. I mean, it usually is BAD, what they’re doing, but the bad guys almost always people and actions that fit the liberal stereotypes of conservatives. Too much socialism never seems to be the problem, always the private sector or moneyed conservatives meddling in politics.
Yep, that’s the problem with lefty types and liberals being the writing class and the guys who do screenplays. Notice how you seldom see an intelligent Christian in a movie. Started back in the 50s and 60s. Remember all those westerns where southerners were a bunch of wahoo idiots and christians were always the intolerant type who beat their wives and kids and wanted to lynch innocent minorities, innocent people, and were really hypocrites who had actually robbed the bank.
parsy, who grew up in south Georgia and and could probably go wahoo if necessary.
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