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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/25/2004 : 09:54:09
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/nm/20041025/pl_nm/court_rehnquist_dc
Just another reason to vote Kerry!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2004 : 12:17:04 [Permalink]
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Arguably the main reason to vote Kerry!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 10/26/2004 : 01:16:19 [Permalink]
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True!
If Bush is able to fill the SC with just a few ayatollahs you can kiss your religious freedom goodbye...
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/26/2004 : 08:26:43 [Permalink]
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A news story stated that 2 - 3 justice's could be replaced in the next 4 years. 2 - 3 Bush appointees... what a horrific thought!!!!
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If I knew then what I know now then I would know more now than I know. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 10/26/2004 : 09:20:47 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by furshur
A news story stated that 2 - 3 justice's could be replaced in the next 4 years. 2 - 3 Bush appointees... what a horrific thought!!!!
There might be even more. The court is aging. Only Clarence Thomas is under 65.
Rehnquist is 80
Stevens is 84
O'Connor is 74
Scalia is 68
Kenedy is 68
Souter is 65
Ginsburg is 71
Breyer is 68
Thomas is 56
The article is probably referring to the older justices Stevens, O'Connor, and Ginsburg. Although Scalia, Kennedy, and Breyer aren't far behind. It all depends on the health of the justice. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Starman
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Sweden
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Posted - 10/27/2004 : 02:26:45 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
It all depends on the health of the justice.
Are there enough flu shots?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2004 : 03:38:01 [Permalink]
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I am wondering what role the court might play in the upcoming election. I further wonder how Rehnquist's illness might affect that role.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 10/27/2004 : 06:22:40 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I am wondering what role the court might play in the upcoming election. I further wonder how Rehnquist's illness might affect that role.
None. Rehnquist is a very conservative judge (dissented in both Roe v. Wade rulings). If Bush, God and Goddess forbid, gets in, he'd only be able to replace a conservative with a conservative. If Kerry gets in, he have to get it past the Senate which is still Republican controlled. Although there is a chance for the Democrats to win a majority of the seats in the Senate. |
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