Wouldn't it be sweet if the repubs got a Supreme Screwing

[Justice Is Comin]

intead of a Supreme Justice? The damn-the-constitution full-conservatism-ahead, Roe turning Justice they thought they were getting ?

Only a half an hour on the court he breaks with Roberts and delays a killing. :rofl: Already the conservatives are saying :wow:

It would just be too sweet if he turned out to be a Souter. Maybe he got roughed up enough, he will actually consider his role and think before he uses the Nazi pen. That would be the finest revenge we could ever hope for. Roast them in their own juices.

[tanyev]

1. It would be sweet. But I'm not holding my breath.

[trotsky]

2. It's certainly happened several times.

Earl Warren, Harry Blackmun, even current Justices Stevens and Souter. You'd think the neocons would have taken every precaution to prevent it again, though.

[ewagner]

3. Would it be sweet? Yes!

Is it likely? Not very.

Although there is the "independence factor" to consider. Once sworn in, Justices are completely independent, they owe loyalty to nobody.

[dogday]

4. I think it will depend on which personality presents itself

at the time of a decision. Alito looks like he might have at least 4...

[HereSince1628]

5. I think it's awfully early to generalize.

Let's at least wait and see where he is at the beginning of the summer recess.

[seriousstan]

6. What? You don't see the pattern from a sampling of 1?

Connect the dot. .

[LiberalAndProud]

12. LOL!

:rofl:

[thefloyd]

16. Hey

If Alito goes our way one more time.....Pretty much natural law at that point.:sarcasm:

[Chimichurri]

7. don't bet on it. he was painting a picture that he's not as radical

as the thousands of emails/letters/phone calls congress received suggests.

[Justice Is Comin]

8. The more I think about it

now that I've got no choice, I think Miers would have had more brown on her nose than Alito. She was butt hole to butt hole with Butthead. There may have been some unused dirt there that could have kept her on the straight and narrow.

Alito is not umbillically tied to him. Boy we can only hope. Alito if you're reading this, conscience is a good thing.

[LiberalAndProud]

9. We can hope.

Although I'm not surprised at the ruling. It was Alito's first day on the bench after an extremely contentious Senate approval. He ruled to delay an execution. The defendent is still on death row and will almost certainly die by lethal injection, later rather than sooner.

I hope the decision signals a trend, but I'll reserve judgment.

[wakeme2008]

10. While I do not believe he will be moderate

I will point out, this person has said in the past, I will say anything to get a job I want.

[benburch]

11. Ain't gonna happen.

They might be upset that, as a Catholic, he is anti death penalty, but he's going to vote with them on everything else.

[DanCa]

13. Well I wouldn't get my hopes up yet.

Remember Alito is still voting along Catholic Doctorine, and the Catholic Doctorine is against the death penality. And remember that the social teachings of the church are against reproductive choice.

[dogday]

14. How does the Church feel about individual rights?

cause he sure has shit all over them......

[DanCa]

21. I don't know they kicked me out along long time ago.

Ah May of 2000. I remember you well.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Kicked You Out?

I would have figured you kicked them out! I'm from an italian catholic family, and at 14, i told my parents, that was it. I fell away at Warp 9. They couldn't kick me out of the church. I was already half a galaxy away by then.
The Professor

[DanCa]

24. I don't mind being kicked out so much as being dragged back in.(nt)

:hi:

[merwin]

15. Scalia is Catholic as well, and he prefers frying people whenever he can.

[Justice Is Comin]

17. He could have come flying out of the chute

with a Roberts kissy poo but he didn't. I'll take it that way rather than the other way around.

Souter was a mind blower to Bush 1. If this lightning actually can strike again, that would be two for two with the vine swingers. Then it will be Johnny Walker on the rocks.

[T Wolf]

18. Totally doubtful

It was a safe vote to make believe he is not the wing-nut we know him to be. His vote would not have changed the decision, so it made no difference.

Just like politicians who cast a safe vote to appeal to some group. Wait a while and see the votes cast that do matter.

[drm604]

19. I don't hold out much hope for him but,

at the same time, I don't find that argument particularly persuasive as a reason for this vote. Why would a Supreme Court Justice care about casting a safe vote just to appeal to a particular group? He's got a lifetime appointment, he doesn't have any need to think politically. That's the whole point of the lifetime appointment!

Maybe after being made out to be a monster, he's trying to disprove that image. Nobody likes to be thought of as a monster. Or maybe he's heard the arguments of some of his critics and found some of them to be persuasuve.

Whether or not he'll continue this behaviour is an open question. Like I said, I don't hold out much hope, but who knows?

[BR_Parkway]

20. Especially with a black defendant, claims of racism at both the trial

and his confirmation (can't have sweet lil wifey crying again, ya know)

But in all reality, making those judgements knowing that there are automatic appeals all the way to the top is one thing, making the call to end someone's life when you are the top/final decision would have to be a more difficult call. Perhaps he's realized just how different this job is vs his last one.

[No Exit]

22. Never forget: William Brennan was appointed by EISENHOWER.

:rofl:

OTOH, Alito is probably just lulling us into a false sense of security...