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The chief justice declared: “stare decisis is not an end in itself.”

Hear hear!

1 posted on 01/25/2010 11:34:34 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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stare decisis is neither an ‘inexorable command’… nor ‘a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest decision’ … especially in constitutional cases

What an awesome Supreme Court Justice.

2 posted on 01/25/2010 11:36:45 AM PST by Dr. North
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Life and Liberty bump!!


3 posted on 01/25/2010 11:37:01 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
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One day... abortion will be illegal, and all the politicians who supported it will be forever stained by the blood of those they helped kill.


4 posted on 01/25/2010 11:37:33 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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Secondly, successfully placing Roberts atop the high court is beginning to look like former President George W. Bush’s most important legacy – a gift that will keep on giving for conservatives for decades.

WHAT!

There wasn't a dimes worth of difference between GWB and Clinton. How can this be?

5 posted on 01/25/2010 11:37:45 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer)
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MAY ALL PRAYER CIRCLES GET ON THEIR KNEES FOR JUSTICE ROBERTS.


6 posted on 01/25/2010 11:39:01 AM PST by Paperdoll ( PLEASE FORGIVE THE CAPS. I HAVE M.D.)
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And I thught someone was cooking popcorn! Sounds of liberal heads exploding!


7 posted on 01/25/2010 11:39:31 AM PST by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - Dockery for Gov. - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
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If ever there was a law that should be overturned, it is Roe v. Wade. Take a stand for life and you will find a new and improved America.


8 posted on 01/25/2010 11:39:54 AM PST by Faith (Natural born citizen and willing to prove it.)
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“If it were, segregation would be legal,

[special rights for gays, women, non-whites, aliens, students, etc.]

minimum wage laws would be unconstitutional,

[uh, they are]

and the Government could wiretap ordinary criminal suspects without first obtaining warrants.”

[Patriot Act]

10 posted on 01/25/2010 11:40:53 AM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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Hallelujah!


11 posted on 01/25/2010 11:41:27 AM PST by Enosh (†)
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HA HA HA HA HA!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! CHUCKLECHUCKLECHUCKLECHUCKLECHUCKLE. Roberts snookered ‘em. Hey, it’s a lot more fun when a justice turns out to be a conservative instead of a moderate, than it is when they turn out to be a libber.


12 posted on 01/25/2010 11:44:00 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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If Roe is overturned, each of the 50 states (or is it 57?) will make their own rules on abortion.


13 posted on 01/25/2010 11:44:07 AM PST by willgolfforfood
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The next SCOTUS kind of fell of the radar for me, but it's the most important decision the POTUS makes.

If Stevens and Ginz can hold on for another three years, we could swap them out for a Janice Rogers Brown/Miguel Estrada/Pryor/Owens.

Lord, I pray that is Your Plan.

15 posted on 01/25/2010 11:44:29 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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Just WOW!!!!


17 posted on 01/25/2010 11:44:44 AM PST by Boardwalk
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This will drive libs apoplectic.


21 posted on 01/25/2010 11:46:19 AM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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It does suggest that although Bush wasn’t perfect, he wasn’t the dunce he is made out to be either.


23 posted on 01/25/2010 11:46:26 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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I could possibly see Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito voting to restore regulation of abortion to the states (i.e. refuting it as anything the federal government is empowered to regulate). That would not eliminate abortion, you can bet Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, California, etc would put an abortion law on the books within a month even if Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, etc might potentially ban it. But it would make it something you could debate within your community again, so that would be something.

The thing is, who is the 5th vote? Forget about Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Stevens, and Breyer. Kennedy might be the only possibility, though he seems to have come down on the side of placing precedent on a pedestal higher than the constitution itself on this issue.


25 posted on 01/25/2010 11:48:08 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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Great....especially if they could correct the "person" interpretation that includes criminal aliens who deposit babies in this country in order to have their offspring declared "U.S. citizens" by judicial fiat. Foreigner's babies born in this country are NOT entitled automatically to citizenship....and doing so to allow them to sponsor then the illegally in-town parents and relatives is ludicrous on its face.

Roe v. Wade, minority set-assides, and ALL States' Rights rulings that have eroded the Constitutions' intent and meaning ALL need to be re-visited, and found Un-Constitutional, and correctly put us back on course, if it's not too late already.

29 posted on 01/25/2010 11:49:49 AM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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“a gift that will keep on giving for conservatives for decades”

As long as someone doesn’t crank up the power on their seizure machine..


31 posted on 01/25/2010 11:50:11 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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How do you like Roberts now, Ann Coulter?


35 posted on 01/25/2010 11:53:14 AM PST by Plutarch
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John Roberts showing his true pro-life colors.

Kudos, mister CJ!


43 posted on 01/25/2010 12:04:21 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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