Posted on 04/20/2014 9:32:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Sunday that politics should be a factor in justices’ decisions on when to step down from the nation’s highest bench.
“It’s an appropriate thing to think about,” Mr. Stevens said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “If you’re interested in the job and in the kind of work that’s done, you have to have an interest in who’s going to fill your shoes.”
Some liberal experts have pressed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who at 81 is the oldest sitting justice on the court and has had health issues, to step down this summer to ensure President Barack Obama can appoint a Democratic justice who can be confirmed by a Democratically-controlled Senate before November’s midterm elections.
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“The days when the courts rule important cases on the law and not ideology are long past.”
Exactly. Their oath to uphold the law and the constitution is so absurd that it shouldn’t even be mentioned. The SCOTUS is nothing more than a mini-legislature.
Any time I get complacent about “couldn’t shock me” I just remember “our esteemed colleague” John McCain. He will badger and harass any pubbie who dares to object to a Witholder nomination to SCOTUS.
Souter’s final act of treason was retiring while a Democrat was in office.
Exactly. The idea of the Senate GOP, even if they were in the majority, ever ‘Borking’ a Democratic SCOTUS nominee is laughable. They don’t have the spine.
For his genocidal pro-abortion decisions former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens should be tried, convicted, sentence, and hanged for treason and crimes against humanity. With every breath, Stevens is nothing more than an oxygen thief.
So we can get another Judas Roberts.
I remember Howard Philips testifying before the Judiciary Committee, point out that Souter had voted, while on the board of a hospital, to perform abortions.
Philips argued that that showed that Souter was a man of evil character. Which is, of course, just common sense.
Orrin Hatch blew a gasket. “We don’t make these decisions that way.”
Of course, Souter proved to be solidly pro-abortion, and a weirdo.
Hatch is one of those “pro-life” politicians who insist that “there are good people on both sides of this issue.”
Baloney. Pro-aborts are evil people. Imagine being capable of saying that people who want to murder babies are “good people”!
Fair point, ,might get one. . but if we have The Messiah making the pick. . we WILL get a socialist Marxist, constitution-hating internationalist for sure.
anyone named Hatch should never support abortions.
You think this country isn’t in the tank when a total corrupt man that should be in prison can become a Justice to the SC.
If this is all the intelligence (stevens) needed to be on the SCROTUM most freepers are more qualified. The ONLY consideration is the Constitution period.
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