Sandra Day O'Connor retires

[Goldenranger]

I'm in shock...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070100650_pf.html

[Mistomeer]

Score one for the Republicans...

[Skirmisher]

You know, the thing is no one can be positive just what a justice will be like till they are in the position.

I must admit to be quite surprised that she is retiring though.

[DeV]

Damn, and here I was expecting Rehnquist to retire or drop dead at any minute. At least with Rehnquist I could deal with it being a case of replacing one conservative with another. O'Connor, however, is a "relative" moderate, or maybe not.

Talk about mixed feelings.

[Artha]

:( She voted against the eminent domain thing, which makes her OK with me.

[Warriorbird]

Complete control of three branches. No conservative is allowed to whine again.

[Artha]

And no liberals are allowed to claim Silent Majority.

[Warriorbird]

We never have. We're a loud fucking minority.

[DeV]

Originally posted by Warriorbird
We never have. We're a loud fucking minority. Heh, I was going to say.
More like a vocal minority.

[Artha]

Before Election 04, I was totally hearing the silent majority claim. Then again, it was idiots at my school, so ymmv.

[ElanthianSiren]

Originally posted by Goldenranger
I'm in shock...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070100650_pf.html

She was placed under a republican -- Reagan and said a few times she wanted to go out under a republican administration. I wasn't shocked, more disappointed.

-M

[Gan]

Originally posted by Mistomeer
Score one for the Republicans...

How do you figure that? O'Conner was a Reagan appointee.

[ElanthianSiren]

Originally posted by Ganalon

Originally posted by Mistomeer
Score one for the Republicans...

How do you figure that? O'Conner was a Reagan appointee.

She was also a swing justice who could be looked to not to be rabidly conservative. I think that's what the original poster was referring to. She was the monumentous swing vote in Roe V. Wade.

-Melissa

[Back]

The whole minority argument is tired. More blame game bullshit. Reps are in power, no question, everything they do or can’t do is their fault. JFC already.

http://www.factcheck.org/article333.html

[Ilvane]

It's interesting that the next lines after what Dean says make sense. I admit I was listening to the news and not actually reading about what he said..and I would have believed he went too far..heh.

Well, after reading that, that changes.

Oh, and I hope that Shrub comes up with a good choice. He will lose it for the Republicans next time around if he goes too right.

-A

[ElanthianSiren]

Okay... I can't help myself. Call it lack of sleep or whatever you like, but.... this tickled me when I read it (and yes, ginger ale went on the monitor and was wiped off)....


Originally posted by Ilvane

Oh, and I hope that Shrub comes up with a good choice.

-A

:rofl: shrub.

-Melissa

[Hulkein]

Originally posted by Ilvane
He will lose it for the Republicans next time around if he goes too right.

-A

I doubt it.

Most people won't make the correlation between a conservative judge appointed by Bush and McCain or whoever runs under the republican ticket in '08. Only way I see it affecting anyone in '08 is if Jeb were to be the republican nominee.

I also doubt Bush would mind a democrat in office from '08-'12 if it means his moral views are upheld by a conservative judge on the Supreme Court.

[TheEschaton]

Hulkein, long time since I've heard from you!


Jackass.

Love,
-TheE-
P.S. The above sentiment is in no relation to Hulkein's sentiment about this topic.

[Edited on 7-2-2005 by TheEschaton]

[Hulkein]

Don't really know if you're genuinely calling me a jackass or saying that joking around... But either way, good to see you weren't victim to that Ebola outbreak.

I think I posted in that thread of yours, so you should've heard from me.

[Letum]

Also the chances of his appointing a moderately conservative judge are fairly slim, considering the dem's still have the threat of the filibuster revocation over their heads. That won't stop them from fighting if Rehnquist retires as well, but they will most likely confirm at least the first fairly conservative judge.

All I can think of:
http://www.myths.com/pub/comics/thismodernworld/thismodernworld_2003_01_13.jpg

[Back]

lol

<--crazy moon lover

[Artha]

But either way, good to see you weren't victim to that Ebola outbreak.
Or that black mamba neighbor of yours.

[Atlanteax]

Originally posted by Artha

But either way, good to see you weren't victim to that Ebola outbreak.
Or that black mamba neighbor of yours.

They'll get him eventually!! :smug:

[TheEschaton]

We finally had to kill the snake because it killed a neighborhood dog.

And Ebola is supposedly contained. Yay.

Now if only I could try and stop my roommate from trying to kill me.

-TheE-

[Ravenstorm]

Originally posted by TheEschaton
Now if only I could try and stop my roommate from trying to kill me.

Stop talking?

Sorry, I just had to :lol:

Raven

[TheEschaton]

She just hates me because I'm so sexy...


....and she's a militant feminist, and I tend to be a male.

-TheE-