Buck Snort
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Where does this leave us?
The make-up of the court will not remain unaffected, a neo-communist will be nominating the leftist justices replacement, a replacement that will be far to the left of the retiring leftist!Link?
Means nothing for gun rights. The makeup of the court will remain unaffected.
Constitution? We don't need no stink'n constitution!The make-up of the court will not remain unaffected, a neo-communist will be nominating the leftist justices replacement, a replacement that will be far to the left of the retiring leftist!
Pray to whatever you hold sacred that none of the five(I'm counting Kennedy as a sort of knee-jerk conservative)don't end up being replaced during the current administrations tenure, a terrifying prospect.
The make-up of the court will not remain unaffected, a neo-communist will be nominating the leftist justices replacement, a replacement that will be far to the left of the retiring leftist!
Pray to whatever you hold sacred that none of the five(I'm counting Kennedy as a sort of knee-jerk conservative)don't end up being replaced during the current administrations tenure, a terrifying prospect.
wlewisiii: said:2) Neo-communist? That's laughable. Just because you don't like a centrist hardly makes the president any form of "communist". It just show how you let others (Fox, Beck, JBS) think for you.
wlewisiii: said:3)Just so long as we don't get another activist judge like Scalia, the court will be ok.
Nonsense like this does nothing but drive moderates towards the Brady camp.481 said:Actually, his is now a Fascist agenda since he has now overseen the government takeover of 51% of the American economy.
wlewisii - Neo-communist? That's laughable. Just because you don't like a centrist hardly makes the president any form of "communist". It just show how you let others (Fox, Beck, JBS) think for you.
You're understating the impact that Stevens has had to the court, and frankly speaking he's not even the most left leaning of the leftists currently sitting on the bench.Relax. Stevens is a liberal justice, considered the leader of the liberal wing of the court. His replacement will be another liberal. The 5 votes of the majority in Heller are still sitting members on the SCOTUS. Even if you think someone that's a "neo-communist" radical were to be nominated, and Congress approved the nomination, the remaining justices are not that far left and the justice would stand alone on many issues.
.Justice Stevens says he'll retire while Obama still president; will decide on timing soon
Associated Press
Last update: April 3, 2010 - 5:27 PM
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says he "will surely" retire while President Barack Obama is still in office, giving the president the opportunity to maintain the high court's ideological balance.
Stevens said in newspaper interviews on the Web Saturday that he will decide soon on the timing of his retirement, whether it will be this year or next. Stevens, the leader of the court's liberals, turns 90 this month and is the oldest justice.
His departure would give Obama his second nomination to the court, enabling him to ensure there would continue to be at least four liberal-leaning justices. The high court is often split 5 to 4 on major cases, with the vote of moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy often deciding which side prevails.
"I will surely do it while he's still president," Stevens told The Washington Post.
But Stevens, who was named to the court by Republican President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, says he still loves the job, and says he continues to write the first draft of his own opinions.
Stevens says if it ever gets to point where he stopped doing that, it would be a sign he wasn't up to the job anymore.
Stevens is the second-oldest justice in the court's history, after Oliver Wendell Holmes. He is the seventh-longest-serving justice, with more than 34 years on the court.
Another liberal, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had surgery last year for early-stage pancreatic cancer. While Ginsburg has been her usual energetic self, including frequent speaking engagements and a teaching stint in Europe, long-term survival rates for pancreatic cancer are low.
Ginsburg, 77, has said she intends to serve into her early 80s, and she has hired her clerks for the court term that begins in October 2010.
Justices are reluctant to retire in bunches, mainly because they want the nine-member court as close to full strength as possible.Stevens also is nearing two longevity records. When he joined the court, he replaced the longest-serving justice, William O. Douglas, and would need to serve until mid-July 2012 to top that service record. He would surpass Holmes as the oldest sitting justice if he were to remain on the court until Feb. 24, 2011.
"I do have to fish or cut bait, just for my own personal peace of mind and also in fairness to the process," Stevens told The New York Times. "The president and the Senate need plenty of time to fill a vacancy."
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says he "will surely" retire while President Barack Obama is still in office, giving the president the opportunity to maintain the high court's ideological balance.