[montanajoe]

If O is reelected there is no way in hell Scalia or Kennedy will retire. But if Romney is elected they very well might retire. I think the best Romney would do in that case would be to appoint a couple of Kennedy clones which would shift the balance.
Remember it was Eisenhower who gave us the Warren court.
Preventing Romney from getting the nomination is the best way to insure a conservative supreme court

[Yaelle]

We need to fight Romney after tonight with all we’ve got. We cannot trust him to appoint SC judges. No way.

[jeltz25]

To be fair it was Reagan who gave us the O’Connor/Kennedy Court. You never really know. Reagan did a lot right, but those 2 were his biggest mistakes. Well, them and Bush.

[jeltz25]

To be fair it was Reagan who gave us the O’Connor/Kennedy Court. You never really know. Reagan did a lot right, but those 2 were his biggest mistakes. Well, them and Bush.

Just imagine if Reagan had appointed solid conservatives instead of O’Connor and Kennedy(yes he tried with Bork and Ginsburgm but there had to be someone else besides Kennedy). O’Connor there’s no excuse. Everyone knew about her. Reagan knew. If you read his diaries he was warned but he wrote that he just felt in his gut that she’d be ok. So much for that. Even with Kennedy, if he’d just named a solid conservative instead of O’Connor(and there had to be a more conservative woman than O’Connor out there), Roe v Wade would be long gone and a whole host of other bad decisions would have come out differently. THe country would be very different.