Lifetime appointment

[Urchin]

Now what?  

I'd love to throw around doomsday predictions, but I don't know enough to be able to.  What do you all think is going to happen with this?

I think it'll be kind of interesting anyway.

[Hangtime]

The congress will waste about a year on the nominees.. nothin else will get done and we'll eventually wind up with a couple of new justices.

Business as usual.

[Toad]

The administration will try to get this done before mid-term elections in Congress.

[Gunslinger]

Ted kennedy, on his way to the bar, has allready said "he'd appose any judge that presidnet Bush appoints by abusing his power"

[GtoRA2]

See Rule #5

[Silat]

Originally posted by Toad
Well to Justice O'Connor. I didn't always agree with her decisions/votes but I respect her.

Life terms? Yep. That's the design and so far it seems to work.

Now the fun will really begin in the Senate, however.

If she isnt dead then she shouldnt step down. It was a lifetime appoinment.

[Toad]

Maybe we should chain them all to their seats and give 'em an oar.

[Urchin]

Hangtime/Toad, do you think the Democrats will dare to filibuster Bush's pick knowing that Frist will go over their heads and end the practice completely?  I have very little doubt that is what would happen were the Democrats to try to filibuster any S.C. pick.  

Thanks for your input Guns and 6Gun lol.

[Silat]

Originally posted by AdmRose
Unfortuntately lifetime appointments don't guarentee that they won't be voting along their party's lines when it comes to decisions.

That could be true but if you follow the history of their votes it doesnt really favor party lines. Being on the court changes a person.

[Hangtime]

Urchin, I just don't know.. can't see 'em just fillibustering just any nominee.. or attempting it untill/unless other debate and discousure routines are exhausted.

really depends on who the nominee's are, i'd guess.

[Gunslinger]

want to see some of the major hipocracy of the left?  Check out now.org  http://www.now.org

This is the national organization of WOMAN! and look at their front page of what they have to say about O'COnnor's resignation.  The FIRST woman appointed to the supreme court in US history and all they have to talk about is their agenda.  

"Justice O'Connor Resigns ..."  is literally all they say about the woman.

[Khyron]

Originally posted by Silat
That could be true but if you follow the history of their votes it doesnt really favor party lines. Being on the court changes a person.

That is unless you look at Justice Thomas.  Well, not necessarily party-linish.  Just very extremely conservative and hardly ever deviating from this position.  Sometimes I think his views are more "out there" than Rehnquist's.  But on the whole I agree with Silat - it seems many of the assumed conservatives turned out to be some of the most liberally voting justices while some of the most assumed to be liberal justices ended up once on the court to be some of the hardest voting conservatives.

Anyway, I've always kind of liked O'Conner's opions.  I'm not sure why she's so vilified here by so many.  Her opinions have mostly seemed quite sensible, whether or not I agreed with them, and grounded on sensible basis.

[Urchin]

Well, personally I'm against abortion, but if I were for it I'd be concerned as well.  There is a very real possiblity that it will be gone by the end of Bush's term.

[SOB]

Guns, was there any point at all to your last post?  I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but damn.  Yeah, the left fringe are idiots, and yep, so are the right fringe.  We all get it.  However, the folks at NOW don't represent the entire "left", and I think you're well aware of that.

As to the new justice(s), I don't see anything seriously horrible happening.  I can't imagine they'd overturn Roe v. Wade, 30 years after the fact.

[GtoRA2]

No one but the nuts on either side gives a crap about roe v wade.


It's not going to change.

What we need is judges who will look at the constitution as it was meant not what their agenda says it should be.


Even trying to over turn roe v wade would have the gray haired Birkenstock weary libs rioting and burning down their cities. No one wants dried up old libbers to be out and about again, even Bush.



PS Mods my last post was not a troll or flame bait it was humor, grow a sense of humor please.