The 5-4 Supreme Court

[CrusaderFrank]

The only reason Kagan is on SCOTUS is for her silence on Obama's Foreign student status

 

[Redfish]

Maybe Obama can chide SCOTUS again in his next SOTU address?

He's such a charmer and knows how to work with others, even when they disagree with him

Seriously Frank, can you think of anything Obama could say or do (Other than to put his neck on a chopping block.) that would make Thomas, Alito, or Scalia look to the Constitution rather than the gop for direction? These three have to be some of the scummiest justices this country has ever seen.
Consider the ethics of Scalia. A case comes before the SC that involves his hunting buddy cheney. A responsible judge would recuse himself based on their close friendship. Does Scalia recuse himself? Of course not. Oh, and by the way, if I am not mistaken he voted in favor of cheney. Maybe for republican's it is okay but as for me Scalia's decision not to recuse himself does NOT pass the smell test.
Cheney v. United States District Court - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

did Kagan recuse herself from the obamacare vote after doing legal work in support of ACA? No? well shit, dude.

 

[Redfish]

The only reason Kagan is on SCOTUS is for her silence on Obama's Foreign student status

I think its called buying silence. wonder how much Lerner is being paid.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

In the context of Constitutional jurisprudence, the "liberals" acknowledge long-standing, accepted and settled case law, while "conservatives" seek to pull that case law down.

 

[rightwinger]

There was a point where our Supreme Court was looked at as being above partisan politics. That is what the founders envisioned. Now they are deeply entrenched in it

 

[Redfish]

In the context of Constitutional jurisprudence, the "liberals" acknowledge long-standing, accepted and settled case law, while "conservatives" seek to pull that case law down.

now thats some funny shit. pot, meet kettle

 

[rightwinger]

The only reason Kagan is on SCOTUS is for her silence on Obama's Foreign student status

I think its called buying silence. wonder how much Lerner is being paid.

Birthers

 

[Redfish]

There was a point where our Supreme Court was looked at as being above partisan politics. That is what the founders envisioned. Now they are deeply entrenched in it

true, what's your fix? earlier in the thread you were praising the leftists on the court, hypocrisy much?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Maybe Obama can chide SCOTUS again in his next SOTU address?

He's such a charmer and knows how to work with others, even when they disagree with him

Maybe he can stuff the court?

 

[Redfish]

The only reason Kagan is on SCOTUS is for her silence on Obama's Foreign student status

I think its called buying silence. wonder how much Lerner is being paid.

Birthers

Wow, you mean Lerner is from Kenya too??? she doesn't look kenyan.

 

[Uncensored2008]

So what? Notice the cherry picking of prior courts--1801 to 1940. Like history stopped in 1940. Of course up until then most justices shared similar backgrounds, schooling, and views. Since then there has been more diversity, ergo more disagreement.
But the court still decides many cases without 5-4 votes.
The whole thread is more trolling trash.

Rightwinger reads it on DailyKOS, then posts it here.

It's not like he has the ability to reason.

 

[Redfish]

Maybe Obama can chide SCOTUS again in his next SOTU address?

He's such a charmer and knows how to work with others, even when they disagree with him

Maybe he can stuff the court?

maybe he can stuff ginsberg up Kagan's ass. that would create a vacancy on the court.

 

[buckeye45_73]

So what? Notice the cherry picking of prior courts--1801 to 1940. Like history stopped in 1940. Of course up until then most justices shared similar backgrounds, schooling, and views. Since then there has been more diversity, ergo more disagreement.
But the court still decides many cases without 5-4 votes.
The whole thread is more trolling trash.

Rightwinger reads it on DailyKOS, then posts it here.

It's not like he has the ability to reason.

no kidding and he stated he gets paid to post, no wonder he loves propoganda, thats all he has

 

[CaféAuLait]

The Supreme Court's two tribes - The Week

From 1801 to 1940, only 2 percent of its rulings came by 5-4 decisions. But in the Roberts years, 22 percent of cases have ended in such rulings, an all-time high. In oral arguments, the justices do little to disguise their tribal affiliations: The conservative, Catholic male justices recently expressed open sympathy for a Christian-owned company fighting the "contraception mandate," while the female liberal justices focused on women employees who might be denied contraceptive coverage. It sounded more like a debate on MSNBC or Fox News than a judicial proceeding. We humble citizens are thus left to wonder: Are the good justices dispassionately weighing each case on its constitutional merits, or are they mere ideologues who start off with a desired result and reason backward?

So what was the count from 1940 to 2005? Could it be? Nah! It is! It's the magical partisan mathematical madness used by partisan authors to fool his reader into believing 65 years of SCOTUS decisions don't matter . lol

 

[Uncensored2008]

why? is that what's making their decisions pathetically bad?

You mean, them following the Constitution when you have an agenda?

I have a better idea... maybe the ethically challenged like Scalia and Thomas shouldn't be on the bench?

Should an oath of loyalty to the party be required before serving on the Bench? Something like "I swear to uphold the goals and agenda of the democratic party and will never allow the Constitution or rational thought to interfere with party goals?"

yeah, that's the ticket.

You're a thug, but it's born of your abject ignorance of the law and the principles of jurisprudence.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Pathetically bad=Jillian doesn't like.

Speaking of pathetic, the idea of you passing yourself as someone with any legal training beyond parolee is pretty pathetic.
Perhaps the lying wise Latina vagina and the dyke need to go instead?

Jillian is a partisan hack without even a scintilla of knowledge regarding jurisprudence. The result is the stupidity she posts in these kinds of threads.

But whatchagunnado?

 

[The Rabbi]

Pathetically bad=Jillian doesn't like.

Speaking of pathetic, the idea of you passing yourself as someone with any legal training beyond parolee is pretty pathetic.
Perhaps the lying wise Latina vagina and the dyke need to go instead?

Jillian is a partisan hack without even a scintilla of knowledge regarding jurisprudence. The result is the stupidity she posts in these kinds of threads.

But whatchagunnado?

We all have fact-free moments in our posts. I dont mind that. But Jillian has never posted anything more profound than "you're a stupid racist tea party nitwit." Not once. Every post is content free.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

In the context of Constitutional jurisprudence, the "liberals" acknowledge long-standing, accepted and settled case law, while "conservatives" seek to pull that case law down.

Liberals consult the wisdom of a tribal shaman in equatorial Africa; Conservatives refer to the Constitution

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The courts used to be one or two liberals, one or two conservatives with the rest of the court being political moderates. It used to be the moderates who controlled the court
. Selecting a moderate justice used to be the prime concern
Then we started stacking the court. Republicans stacked with arch conservatives, Democrats stacked with arch liberals. It became a contest over who could "own" the court and get their agenda pushed through

And fdr started that to get his new deal through.

The court up to the end of WW's terms was certainly not liberal or moderate but more conservative. Read the decisions on segregation and labor.

Dred Scott, Plessy, Korematsu and Wickard were all Progressive rulings

 

[The Rabbi]

In the context of Constitutional jurisprudence, the "liberals" acknowledge long-standing, accepted and settled case law, while "conservatives" seek to pull that case law down.

Liberals consult the wisdom of a tribal shaman in equatorial Africa; Conservatives refer to the Constitution

Liberals invented a right to abortion,a right to privacy, a right to equal schools, a right for municipalities to take stuff to give to private developers for money, and a power to tax found nowhere in the Constiution.
Conservatives struck down gun free zones and bans on handguns.
I know who's doing his job and who is legislating from the bench.