Hawaii Hiker
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jan-22-10 11:02 AM
Original message |
Damn, if i ever hear the term judicial activist being said about a liberal justice |
|
Edited on Fri Jan-22-10 11:03 AM by Hawaii Hiker
I will have to leave the room, or i will risk throwing something right thru my big screen TV downstairs....Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on the Citizens United V. FEC case, where the conservative justices' basically said "F U" to over a 100 years of settled law & gave corporations a frighening new level of power, might have just been the greatest example of judicial activism, EVER...
Once again, this just shows why we need to keep a Democrat in the WH....Supreme Court appointments are for life, & the thought of any Republican making the next appointment(s) should scare you to death...Then there are the appointments to District Courts as well as the Court of Appeals that a president will make as well...
Yesterdays Supreme Court ruling was a judicial 9/11
:banghead:
|
Not Me
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jan-22-10 11:06 AM
Response to Original message |
1. Yeah, it's amazingly quiet on the right... |
|
Had this been in a social area, they'd be screaming "ACTIVIST JUDGES".
|
ixion
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jan-22-10 11:09 AM
Response to Reply #1 |
2. which is why the teabaggers have no credibility |
OHdem10
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jan-22-10 11:09 AM
Response to Original message |
3. One of the reasons we have a RW Supreme Court is the reaction |
|
to Liberal Judicial Activism of the Past. Using the courts to promote Ideolgy. Roe V Wade, etc.
The Hilarious Argument is just that. They use the Courts for RW Ideology, especially Business Law. In this regard, one could argue the RW Court has been even more activist.
|
T Wolf
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Jan-22-10 11:24 AM
Response to Original message |
4. There have NEVER been "liberal" justices, at least as far as a sane definition of liberal goes. |
|
There have been far-reich whackjobs like the gang of five, and some slightly less-than-extreme conservatives. But a true-blue liberal? Someone who tried to push things as far to the left as the Court goes reich-ward? Never.
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Tue May 07th 2024, 12:45 PM
Response to Original message |