Surpeme Court Job Invigorates Rehnquist

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - William H. Rehnquist turns 80 on Friday, a milestone reached by only one other chief justice of the United States. Though slowed by back and knee problems, he remains invigorated by the job and appears in no hurry to give up the title of the nation's top judge.

Named to the Supreme Court by President Nixon in 1972, Rehnquist is expected to mark his birthday much like any other work day — reviewing legal documents, while keeping a watchful eye on details of court life such as public exhibits.

That steady discipline is the mark of a chief justice who has defied retirement rumors even as some observers wonder whether his conservative legacy — empowering states, limiting abortion and preserving the death penalty — may finally have run its course.

"The Rehnquist revolution has hit the wall until the membership of the court changes," said Tom Goldstein, a Washington lawyer who specializes in the Supreme Court.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=558&ncid=703&e=10&u=/ap/20040930/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_rehnquist

Jimmy Carter shares the exact same birthday with this guy? "Libra" characteristics must be pretty broadly defined.

[TaleWgnDg]

1. what b.s. is this article!

Rehnquist will resign if GWBush wins . . . without question! And GWBush will anoint Cardinal Scalia to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, then anoint another Cardinal to fill Scalia "associate justice" seat on the USSC bench.

Tis serious stuff this election. VOTE FOR KERRY.

A vote for Kerry assures that the U.S. Supreme Court will not be filled with perverted radical "neo-con" ideologues who will throw America's law back to the days before OSHA, labor laws, minimum wage, women's rights, civil rights . . . I kid you not.

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"I believe that it points up the fact that we
need common sense judges who understand
that our rights were derived from God. Those
are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench."
— GWBush, June 27, 2002, explaining his litmus
test for federal judicial nominees



"Soon after becoming governor, Bush declared
tort reform an 'emergency issue' and appointed
judges who made it all but impossible for Texans
to bring class action lawsuits against polluters.
In 1995 he pushed through the Private Real Property
Rights Preservation Act, a radical 'takings' bill
that would make taxpayers pay polluters' cost of
complying with pollution laws.
According to this view, corporations should be able to do what
they want with their private property; if the state cuts into their
profits by forcing them to adopt pollution-control measures, the
state (i.e., the public) should pay. This perverse doctrine reverses
a millennium of western property law that holds that owners can
use their property as the please, but never in a way that diminishes
their neighbors' property or the public trust properties like air and
water. Leading the charge for this radical new approach was
right-wing private-property advocate Marshall Kuykendall, who
complained at a public forum that the last time the federal
government took our property without compensation is 'when
Lincoln freed the slaves.' " -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,
environmental activist and environmental attorney,
"Crimes Against Nature," excerpted at
http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?is...
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[yankeeinlouisiana]

2. I don't think it will matter if he resigns,

it will matter if Sandra Day O'Connor or one of the liberal leaning judges resign.

[qazplm]

3. as an attorney

and a liberal, Reinquist doesnt scare me NEARLY as much as Scalia or Thomas.


Every once in awhile Reinquist will make sense and he seems to have definitely moderated his views over the years.

I can live with a CJ Reinquist, but a CJ Scalia?
Dogs and cats living together!

I want Kerry to win first and foremost to have him appoint the next CJ, heck he can pick Sandra Day for all I care (although she wont be picked, she is going to leave in the not too distant future), as long as Scalia isnt on there (or Thomas) as CJ.

[Eye and Monkey]

4. have you read about Scalia's "orgies should be encouraged" remark?

Now, that's scary.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x876791