Supreme Court liberals dismay: "It's not often in law that so few have changed so much so quickly."

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: ANALYSIS
Narrow Victories Move Roberts Court to Right
Decisions Ignore Precedent, Liberal Justices Contend
By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 29, 2007; Page A04

....The liberal justices -- Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer -- have taken turns reading their dissenting opinions from the bench in a show of dismay with the court's direction.

"Someone like Ginsburg, who used to be a cautious liberal, is now an angry liberal," said Neil S. Siegel, a professor of law at Duke University and a former law clerk of Ginsburg's....

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As Roberts read his opinion in the schools cases yesterday, Breyer shifted in his chair, rubbed his temples and occasionally shook his head. When his turn came to read his dissent, Breyer spoke heatedly for almost a half-hour, much longer than the chief justice himself had taken to read his opinion.

The 77-page opinion, twice as long as any other dissent Breyer has written, clearly occupied much of Breyer's time and energy during the term.

As his liberal colleagues have done in their dissents, Breyer accused Roberts and the conservatives of violating stare decisis, the legal principle that decisions should generally be left undisturbed.

"The majority is wrong," Breyer said. "It's not often in law that so few have changed so much so quickly."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/28/AR2007062802389.html?hpid=topnews

[whistle]

1. Roberts lied and is a Federalist neocon plant and should now have his Justiceship

...revocked by congress. Better still, send over federal police to arrest and drag his ass out of the SCOTUS for lying to congress. That too must be impeachable. GODDAMN, who the fu*k do these people think they are kidding!

[LoZoccolo]

2. Oh get off of it! Everyone knows Supreme Court justices don't matter!

Nader was right. Republicans are Tweedledee and Democrats are Tweedledum, and Gore would have nominated the same justices that Bush* did.

_{NOTE: This post is sarcastic.}

[BlooInBloo]

4. "I'm voting my conscience! Who cares who gets hurt in reality-land?"

[Rex]

3. Oh I'm sorry, did you miss out when the Repukes suspended

HC? Just snoozin through the whole thing? :(

Stupid people should never run the gummit.