Much depends on Ginsburg

Los Angeles Times ^ | March 15, 2014 | By Erwin Chemerinsky

[itsahoot]

Do you know how many Republicans voted against Ginsburg? Three is the answer.

As I recall Orin Hatch said the President has a right to his choices for the court. Buzzy was a suggestion from Hatch as one that would face little opposition.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think a likely choice, if Obama gets to nominate another justice, is Kamala Harris, Attorney General of California, who is 49. She is part black and part Asian, so Obama would get another “first.” For sure anyone succeeding to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat will be female, and I would really be surprised if Obama ever selected a male for the court even if one of the other seats opened up.

[EDINVA]

Black/Asian/Female....a threefer. If she’s a lesbian, can we go for 4 checkoffs?

[Jacquerie]

The once three distinct branches have slowly morphed into a nearly single ruling body.

Instead of checks, Scotus and Congress provide false constitutional backup to Him and His diktats.

One prez, nine black robes, and 535 congressmen/senators coerce over 320 million. These are the topmost echelons of the despotic class, the uniparty.

Voting increasingly serves to condone criminality, to decide who gets to determine what the law is.

Reform will never come from those who profit so well from the current anti-constitutional system.

There is only one possible, though certainly not assured process that offers a return to republican freedom.

[Kenny Bunk]

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, by your right wing selfishness!

Barry, our first openly LGBT-sympathtic POTUS, needs, NEEDS I tell you, to appoint a gay, black, Communist to the SCOTUS to balance out the gay, white lesbian Communist already seated.

Gosh, don't you just wish Reggie Love were a lawyer! Also in the running. Raúl Castro, Lula, and Ellen deGeneres. I find it most unsporting of you in your willingness to deny our first gay non-totally white, foreign-born POTUS the chance to stamp his legacy on Obamerica!