Posted on 12/25/2010 7:39:05 PM PST by Nachum
Washington —For most of the last two decades, Supreme Court conservatives led by Justice Antonin Scalia dominated the debates during oral arguments. They greeted advocates for liberal causes with sharp and sometimes caustic questions, putting them on the defensive from the opening minute.But the tenor of the debate has changed in recent months, now that President Obama's two appointees to the court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, have joined the fray and reenergized the liberal wing.Gone are the mismatches where the Scalia wing overshadowed reserved and soft-spoken liberals like now-retired
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> reserved and soft-spoken liberals
What universe is this author from?
Most of the “liberals” I know are loud, conceited, self-important, pompous, braying jack-asses!
But they are probably as secret as Zero's birth certificate.
Quite frankly, I imagine the other justices privately shaking their heads at the juridical incompetence of these two affirmative action lightweights
Actually, as soon as 0bastard is deemed ineligilible and yanked off the stage, these gals (or whatever they are) need to be shown the door.
Null and voided.
“Most of the “liberals” I know are loud, conceited, self-important, pompous, braying jack-asses!”
ABSOLUTELY.
“Most of the “liberals” I know are loud, conceited, self-important, pompous, braying jack-asses!”
ABSOLUTELY.
SHEESH!!! I only hit post once. Sorry to all about that.
Horse sh**. The people they replaced were already as left as they could get. It is still 5-4.
In the World we live in, it will never happen.
What a crock of sh*t this article is ...
Cases aren’t decided during oral arguments. Orals are “dog and pony” shows for the public. Liberals don’t sway Conservatives or vice-versa in these public forums. Although, one can get the sense of the tenor of a case from each of the justices questions.
Most of the decisions are made [and possibly persuaded] during private meetings [usually one-on-one] between justices.
For example, in Brown v. Board of Education, Earl Warren decided that he needed a unanimous Court for the decision in order to send the message. The ruling was delayed by months so that he could personally persuade the Southern Conservatives on the Court to get on board.
More acid flashbacks to a past that existed only on the other side of the mirror.
What a joke. These two idiots only talk; they don’t reason, analyze or apply. They only talk. And they say whatever it is that useful idiots are supposed to say. I suppose that is worth some mention in the LA Times.
The Rats in the Senate are currently thinking about eliminating the filibuster so that they can fill as many federal courts with liberals in the two years Obastard has left.
In what other direction are 2 marxist lesbian pigs to go?
Good point, but David Souter was a mild and conflict-averse New England Yankee. No one can say the same for the egotistical Sonia Sotomayor, who replaced him.
It’s not that the views of the court have changed, but the tone has and it’s more combative.
Maybe the world you live in.
The world I live in, nothing lasts forever, karma is inescapable law (aka “as you sow, so shall you reap”) and the leftists are doomed. They will fight and claw and kick and scratch and bite.
But if people give up, as you apparently are ready to do right now, they merely assist the evil leftists.
Note my tagline.
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