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2008-06-29 Home Front: Politix

A McCain Win Might Push the Supreme Court to the Right

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Posted by Bobby 2008-06-29 09:51|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Donks will destroy the entire process rather than give in. McCain's best position would be to say that there is no Constitutional requirement on the number of active sitting members for it to issue decisions. The oldest and most likely to die off first are the socialist. Best to gen up the next Constitutional amendment to move the process from the Senate which has already degenerated it into a political circus to a popular vote, at least for SCOTUS.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-29 10:27|| 2008-06-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#2 According to the Onion, the Roberts Court is trending less toward strictly constitutional and more toward strictly awesome. It's the Onion, folks. Not safe for work.

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass'

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-06-29 10:43|| 2008-06-29 10:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree entirely. To the right to bear arms, to the right to free speech, and all those other pesky rights.

Posted by Perfesser 2008-06-29 10:47|| 2008-06-29 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe term limits for EVERYONE, not just the president.

President appoints them, then a NATIONAL referendum on the first presidential cycle election after 10 years of service, then every 12 years after that. Simple Yes-NO "Should Justice so-n-so be retained?", judged on an electoral college count.

Why 12? It keeps one president from being able to completely pack the courts.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-29 11:28|| 2008-06-29 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 SCOTUS picks are notoriously fickle. You pick a conservative and he turns into a Kennedy or a Souter. You pick a liberal, and he could turn into a potted plant, like Thurgood Marshall. But a potted plant with a party-line vote.

W. Bush had a hell of a time finding Roberts. If I had my druthers, I would pick a sunken-eyed Mormon judge from the bowels of Utah, who thinks Constitutional Amendments after 12 are too liberal and should be repealed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-29 14:12|| 2008-06-29 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 It's a tragedy how many of the court's liberal justices were placed there by republican presidents.

Kennedy - Reagan
Souter - Bush I
Stevens - Ford

That's all but 2, folks, and exactly why McCain was my LAST choice in the primaries.

Posted by Iblis 2008-06-29 14:46|| 2008-06-29 14:46|| Front Page Top

#7 ION INTERFAX > BOLTON/"ZIGGY" BRZEZINKI [paraph]> US PLANS FOR MISSLE DEFENSE IN EUROPE CAN BE REVISED IN THE NEXT CONGRESS/IFF OBAMA WINS.

Also from INTERFAX > BOLTON: NATO SHOULD ADMIT THE UKRAINE, GEORGIA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, + ISRAEL.

*GUAM PDN >seems like proposed ASIAN GMD-TMD vv JAPAN-SOKOR, etc. is also being affected by the upcoming US elex.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-29 22:29|| 2008-06-29 22:29|| Front Page Top

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