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June 28th, 2018, 08:17 PM | #2832 |
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The Supreme Court is not supposed to be a law making body but in reality it is. I have already read predictions that the Roe v. Wade decision will be bypassed and that abortion will be illegal in at least 20 US states in less than 2 years from the appointment of Justice Kennedy's replacement. It is unlikely that a precedent set by an earlier SCOTUS will merely be repealed, but more likely that new rulings will work around the Roe v. Wade decision and nullify it by granting caveats and exemptions.
Having said this, it is not so very easy to be certain that a conservative judge will always rule in a conservative way. Some judges have a disconcerting habit of actually reading and thinking about what the constitution actually says. President Eisenhower was confident that Chief Justice Earl Warren would support the state of Arkansas in its long standing policy of segregating black and white school children and was very put out when the Warren court ruled firmly against segregation in schools as unconstitutional. Trying to predict how judges will rule is difficult, even when their track record is known. But the reason why both parties try to politicise the SCOTUS by appointing biased and partisan judges is that the SCOTUS decides what is the law in the USA, although really that should be the job of the legislature, not the job of the judiciary.
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I guess I could "google" it - but I don't recall a Justice being removed.
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Its very unfortunate that two principled moderates, David Souter and Sandra Day O'Connor, retired. They're both still living, were they still on the Court it would be a very different place. |
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Nowadays,Insanity wouldn't be an impediment..
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We don't really want crazy judges. Only the presidency, congressmen, and senators should be allowed that latitude.
Trump is not likely crazy. He is just the first president that pays no lip service to the traditional ideology that has informed our political life since Revolutionary times. He even ridicules and belittles those ideals. I am sensing that we as a people are very uncomfortable with this deviance and we are not likely to see another of his ilk for a very long time. It is much easier to be a childish, racist, and selfish greed head when one has a self image that the nation is a "light shining on the hill," and that one is a virtuous patriot. |
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