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Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at the age of 99
ABC NEWS ^ | Jul 16, 2019, | matt zarrell

Posted on 07/16/2019 6:48:21 PM PDT by rdl6989

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at the age of 99, ABC News has confirmed.

Stevens was nominated to the high court by Republican President Gerald Ford in 1975 and retired in 2010 after serving more than 34 years on the court.

He is survived by his children, Elizabeth Jane Sesemann and Susan Roberta Mullen, nine grandchildren: Kathryn, Christine, Edward, Susan, Lauren, John, Madison, Hannah, Haley, and 13 great grandchildren. His first wife Elizabeth Jane, his second wife, Maryan Mulholland, his son, John Joseph, and his daughter, Kathryn, preceded him in death.

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To: chuckb87

“The bad ones, they never die “ - Pope Francis to Ted McCarrick.


41 posted on 07/16/2019 9:08:10 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: rdl6989
Why don’t liberal appointees ever turn out to be conservative?

Because we as Christians don't pray for them enough.

42 posted on 07/16/2019 9:17:01 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: nwrep; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; ...
>> There is only 1 example of that - Byron White, appointed by JFK. <<

There's a second example, but it was over a century ago. James Clark McReynolds was Woodrow Wilson's loyal Attorney General and a proud lifelong RAT. Wilson appointed him to SCOTUS with the expectation that McRenynolds would be a good reliable "progressive" DemonRat and vote on all kinds of liberal feel-good federal goodies. Instead, McReynolds morphed into a staunch conservative limited government advocate and became one of the most outspoken opponents of New Deal legislation during FDR's regime. His refusal to budge is one of the reasons FDR desperately tried to pull off his court-packing scheme.

One of the reasons there's so few examples of RAT SCOTUS appointees going rogue is that very few RATs actually got appointed in recent decades. Ike, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, the two Bush's, and Trump got to appoints tons of "Republican" judges. RATs like Jimmy Carter got to appoint zilch, while Obama and Clinton got only 2 each.

43 posted on 07/16/2019 9:27:42 PM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact)
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To: chuckb87

God doesnt want them.


44 posted on 07/16/2019 9:36:48 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: rdl6989

Byron “Whizzer” White (usually more conservative than liberal” appointed by John Kennedy

White was seen as a disappointment by some Kennedy supporters who wished he had joined the more liberal wing of the court in its opinions on Miranda v. Arizona and Roe v. Wade.


45 posted on 07/16/2019 10:13:04 PM PDT by Calif Conservative
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I won’t speak ill of the dead. I will just say that it is with great regret that I have alwasy noted that he was a graduate of the same law school as I.


46 posted on 07/16/2019 10:38:10 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: rdl6989

No comment.


47 posted on 07/17/2019 12:00:01 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: rdl6989

He is preceded in death by 63 million babies, women, children, and mothers whom he supported aborting.


48 posted on 07/17/2019 1:27:03 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: rdl6989

The reason some turn: The left dominates the main stream media, most of education, law school (where the law clerks come from) and much of social media-the left pressures and applauds what they want, values come from secular viewpoint- (according to Gallup survey 25% of college professors are avowed atheist)-anything else is derided.

btw its the same reason church attendance is falling-the college influence


49 posted on 07/17/2019 2:08:09 AM PDT by TECTopcat (TopCat)
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To: chuckb87

“Why do these evil bastards live so long?”

Obamacare?


50 posted on 07/17/2019 2:33:10 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: BillyBoy; nwrep; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; LS; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT

Stevens was the clown who wanted to repeal the Second Amendment, correct?


51 posted on 07/17/2019 4:18:18 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Yup. Makes it a lot easier to impose your Communo-Fascist agenda when the populace is disarmed.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=swQvXczeNNLXtAbBk7bICA&q=john+paul+stevens+repeal+the+second+amendment&oq=john+paul+stevens+repeal&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i324.144.9347..10491...0.0..1.840.5415.0j17j0j3j1j2j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0j0i131j0i10j0i3j0i22i30.saioBg5Y8TI


52 posted on 07/17/2019 4:22:41 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Gee ... it must have really sucked for him, going to his final hours, knowing he FAILED in that regard.


53 posted on 07/17/2019 4:26:49 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: rdl6989

Stevens did get one thing right. In City of New York v. Clinton, he correctly concluded that the line item veto violated the Constitution. In order for it to be legal, the Constitution would have to be amended.


54 posted on 07/17/2019 4:52:39 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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We need that line item veto. I loved to hear how that was found unconstitutional. SCOTUS sucks. Affirmative Action is a clear violation of the Constitution equal protection clause. SO if the can do that then screw all of their rulings.


55 posted on 07/17/2019 4:59:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rdl6989
Who cares ...

RBG is still alive. So is traitor JR

56 posted on 07/17/2019 5:51:45 AM PDT by va22030
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To: nickedknack

I think it’s too soon to know for sure whether Kavanaugh is a phony. But I am wary.


57 posted on 07/17/2019 8:21:49 AM PDT by Deo volente ("Paging Mr. Charles Martel. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.")
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To: central_va

The Constitution sez a President can sign, veto, or withhold his signature from a bill - AS WRITTEN BY THE LEGISLATORS. THAT’S IT.

Any change to the text of a bill renders it as NOT having been passed by Congress. This includes insertions and deletions - even punctuation.

Therefore, absent a Constitutional Amendment, the line item veto is invalid.


58 posted on 07/17/2019 9:24:33 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: rdl6989
Why don’t liberal appointees ever turn out to be conservative?

JFK got Byron "Whizzer" White (a former Heisman Trophy winner) onto the Supreme Court and he turned into a solid pro-life conservative. Of course, we're talking 60 years ago. I think Democrats have, since then, decided they would never let that happen again. From Clinton and Obama, there is nothing but a steady stream of far-left judges.

59 posted on 07/17/2019 10:25:21 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

No appeals now. Meet THE judge.


60 posted on 07/17/2019 10:59:59 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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