The 5th Justice: Has Judge Anthony Kennedy been Paid off or is he being blackmailed?

vanity | June 16, 2008 | the eagle has landed

[vamoose]

Notice that it has been Kennedy that has written the majority opinion in the recent Gitmo & alien status cases. I suspect this is Justice Stevens way of bribing Kennedy to vote with him and the other liberals on the court. (If the chief justice, Roberts, is in the majority, he assigns the person to write the opinion. If the CJ is not in the majority, the senior associate justice in the majority, Stevens in this case, assigns the person the write the opinion.) So Stevens button holes Kennedy and says, “if you vote with us I’ll let you write the opinion. Yes, you can show the world your legal brilliance on one of the most important issues of our time. You can be remembered as a great justice. Vote with the me and the other liberals.” And Kennedy, oblivious to Stevens appeals to his vanity says, “Gee thanks, John, I’ll do it.”

[NTHockey]

No, it is simpler than that. He is anti-American and wants to see the country destroyed.

Why does he want the country destroyed? Again simple, he views the wreckage as an opportunity for dictatorship - by the judges.

Judges have shown contempt for the law; why then should we respect them and their “decisions”?

[Humal]

Thank you, El Gato. There is a lot of valuable information in your reply.

[wildbill]

You don’t have to be a Weatherman to see which way the wind blows.

[MinuteGal]

As El Rushbo said yesterday on this subject "It's all about POWER".

Morally-weak sisters like Kennedy and O'Connor get a feeling of empowerment from being the perpetual swing vote. In their own minds, it's their ONE vote that can change the course of the country for good or evil......never mind the count of the other votes on either side.

Unfortunately for the country, their "one" swing vote was and is usually on the side of evil.

Leni

[purpleraine]

He's become an internationalist on a court which is supposed to interpret and apply the US constitution. He thinks that puts him ahead of others because his view of the law is "enhanced."

And he's teaching others the same thing through his class at McGeorge. Soon we will have some of his students/disciples in state and appellate courts applying the same approach.

[Theodore R.]

Yes, he was an unscreened third choice. No excuse.

S.D.O. was his first choice in 1981, and Jerry Falwell warned about her.