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Justice O'Connor Retiring
rlbond86 writes "The New York Times reports that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be retiring. Justice O'Connor, the first woman to become a Supreme Court justice, is considered by many the crucial 'swing vote' on many issues. How will this affect Supreme Court decisions in the future?" From the article: "Her departure, which had been the subject of rumors for weeks but was still a surprise, will give President Bush his first opportunity to name a justice to the Supreme Court. It is still not clear whether Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who is battling thyroid cancer and had been widely expected to resign, will step down this summer, giving Mr. Bush another seat to fill."
Hopefully this means her wishy-washy vote will be replaced with a more Scalia or Thomas-like vote in the future.
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Why is this relevant to the /. community? It's not like the departing Supreme Court Justice is being replaced with a computer.
The woman was senile. Read her opinions on the affirmative action cases and see her do a total flip-flop within a few years.
not quite numbnuts
just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you
GNAA Announces Immediate Release of OSX_x86_YHBT
GNAA Announces Immediate Release of OSX_x86_YHBT
Ich Bindawalross (London) - GNAA (NYSE: GNAA) President timecop released a statement today regarding the immediate Internet release of MacOS X for the x86 architecture, available on many BitTorrent networks. After making the statement, timecop yielded the stage to a second speaker at the press conference, Apple Computer co-Founder and CEO, Steve "Rim" Jobs, now fully recovered from his recent gender reassignment surgery to field questions from attending press members.
"We here at Apple Computerth [sic] have decided on a slightly different path for the upcoming version of the MacOS X," Jobs states before bursting out into high pitched giggles. "We have replaced our overpriced and bloated software with an efficient and easy-to-use interface. I would like to take this opportunity to announce a merger larger than a Zimbabwe nigger cock: GNAA and Apple Computer."
Returning to the podium, timecop began speaking again, while Steve Jobs submitted to orally pleasuring his ten inch nigger cock. "Dedicated faggots have been loyally purchasing the homosexual software and hardware abomination that is Macintosh computers. Apple has been striving to provide software customers with the most flambouyantly homosexual combination available. However, in recent days, this hasn't been enough.
"There has been increasing pressure from the disgustingly obese Lunix nerds and the socially well-adjusted and popular Windows users to convert, as well as pressure from OS X emulators to provide consumers with increasingly gay products. Apple Computer has decided to merge with GNAA in order to broaden the appeal and better serve the interests of all those who buy Macintosh products. Furthermore, we will adopt Apple's "Step 2 ???? PROFIT!" marketing model. This will also stop Apple from going out of business, which they probably would have otherwise."
At this point, timecop paused and deposited a quart of Gaynigger seed into Steve Jobs' mouth.
"GNAApple is committed to our new OS X86. Rather than give the user the difficulty of finding pornography themselves, we provide them with the classic hello.jpg, redundantly archived and brand labeled throughout the 950 MB DVD image, as well as a bundled copy of GPA (Gay Porn Avalanche). Now, greater efficiency in masturbatory pursuits can be provided to all."
"As Slashdot users, many of you might have been exposed to the pirated release, and information pertaining to it. We would like to thank Rob "CmdrCocko" Malda for running the first article, leading to the release of information about our upcoming merger. We would also like to extend our gratitude to thepiratebay.org and XiSO for helping us spread the release over the 'underground scene.' We thank you, the IRC channels who put it on their hacked .edu xdcc bots and fserves who hosted it on your dialup connections.
Steve Jobs, recovering from the large dosage of AIDS from the variety of syphilitic, festering sores of GNAA members, rose to his feet at this point during the press conference. "Our previous versions of OS X were released prematurely, and as a result the operating system was unstable and fragile. Our team of software engineers have also decided to abandon the weak and inefficient UNIX backside in favor of a more efficient and robust alternative: WinNT. The pirated version of our new operating system has had record acclaim from users of the Jewish-based internet news organization known as "Slashdot".
"Those doubting the superiority of our new release need only read user testimonials."
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Is that the same Sandra Day O'Connor that stopped the recount and helped Dubya get the cool job in 2000? I'd say it's about time she retires. I only wish she was forced to, by a public scandal, but it never happened.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I'm really not looking forward to Bush filling one "for life" seat. Filling two is 2x shitty.
What exactly does this have to do with any specific rights online? It's just a troll-fest waiting to happen.
I hereby submit that posts in 'YRO' topics be subject only to + mod points since it's just a slam session of who can get mod points from their side before being cast into -1 oblivion.
I think her replacement is being outsourced to India like any other American job. The Indians can judge better than Americans for lower pay. Gotta love the free market economy. :P
She just voted in favor of removing people's property rights (that was last week). That is a very highly publicized news item recently.
/. community would be wise to support a replacement that respects the constitution and will vote against any decisions to take your rights away (be it property rights, patent reform, privacy rights, etc.)
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It was a good run anyway.
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Adios ya libreral fruitcakes! Lets get those commandments back in our Courthouses so we'll have a reminder of what's right and what's wrong.
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Yes, we all now about the romaing bands of Federal Agents looking ot arbitrarily arrest people and throw then in jail for no reason at the behest of thier Glorious leader and madman George Bush. I am sure, terrorism has nothing to do with these detentions, because we know Bush just likes to imprison people for the hell of it. I still haven't figured out why there are still democrats in the senate and the house, they were suppossed to be arbitraily detained as well.
Look O'Connor's opinion, was both rediculous and stupid as well as hyperbole and a gross mischarecterization of what is going on. The Bush Administration is on solid legal ground in denying trials to terrorists, as there is precedent in detaining not only foreigners indefinitely, but also American Citizens. As a matter of fact, the Federal Government has done this before, most noteably during the Civil War, in which not only did we detain them till the end of the war, but we also burned thier homes down too! The only trial these terrorists are entitled to is one before a Military Tribunal, where will be tried According to the Uniform Code of Military Justice for war crimes, right before we line up against a wall and fill'em full of lead! Hell during WW2, we summarily executed German troops that were not in their proper uniforms, you can even watch footage of the executions on the History Channel.
Good riddens to grandstanding O'Connor.
As long as Bush is running the show, Iraq is still under controll of a facist dictator for all definitions of facism and dictator with which I am familiar.
In the 3 recent bad SCOTUS decisions (including the medical marijuana and eminent domain decisions) it seems to me the "conservatives" wrote the disents. That being said, we may very well be heading towards a fight to overturn Roe v. Wade. In general, I find the recent trend towards "govenments can do anything they damn well please" to be extremely disturbing. Remember that governments are made up of human beings that are quite capable of being short sighted, corrupt, even mean spirited. Hence the need to limit the power of governments to keep people like Richard Nixon and George Bush from doing whatever they want just because the beleive they have some divine right to do so.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
You can express yourself all you want. But when you endorse treason against the democracy, you should be prepared for the consequences.
Ha ha ha, and you done good with you're gramar kuz you arent' a publik skool retards?
"Fundamentalist", in general usage, refers to Christian Fundamentalists---the largest and most visible group that self-labels that way. Don't be difficult.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
I can hardly wait for People for the American Way and other so-called non-partisan groups to start predicting the end of civilized life on the planet if another judicial conservative is appointed to the court. It's a great way for them to raise money.
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"The majority of this country chose him..."
not the first time around.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
Go put on your tin-foil hat before Bush's secret police come and use their mind control device!
Oh noes! Companies do things to make money! Unborn babies will no longer have the Constitutional right to be murdered! What is this world coming to?
If she were a Democrat, she'd be touted as the next coming of Martin Luther King, Jr. That's all I'm saying.
Most of the criticism I hear of her, like yours, is highly partisan.
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
Will Bush be a uniter or a divider? Falcon
Should there be a Law?
Isn't it interesting how people always insist the Founding Fathers were just likey they?
It's generally religious evangelicals who want to claim the Founding Fathers established a government that was supposed to favor their religion. That they were Christians and that they were founding a Christian nation with a Christian government.
The founding fathers were not Christians, nor were they like me. The Founding Fathers were generally Desists. I am not a Deist.
A Deist is one who believes in some form of God, but rejects ALL scripture of ALL religions. Unlike me. Deists beleive in God, but reject claims of divinely revealed scripture. Unlike me. Thomas Jefferson in particular called the Bible a "dung-hill" and dismissed apostle writings of miracles as the ravings of a lunatic. Jefferson admired Jesus as a moral teacher - in exactly the same way one would admire Mahatma Ghandi as a moral teacher. One or more other Founding Fathers explicitly dismissed the Bible as a fable. I think it was Madison who said that any contact between government and religion could only be a currupting influence on both.
The Founding Fathers did not establish a "Chistian government", they established a government required to remain neutral between religions and religious beliefs so that the population could best persue and learn and advance religion free of government contact and curruption in either direction.
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Since the US has taken the lead in asserting extraterritorial judgement in human rights matters you are dead wrong on this.
The US is bound by treaty obligations it has accepted, in fact the Constitution explicitly states that treaties signed by the US are part of US law.
That is why sooner or later there is going to be an accounting for the crimes being committed at Guantanamo. Regardless of whether Guantanamo is under US sovereignty US law clains extraterritorial jurisdiction in cases of torture.
This is not a bad thing, it would be a bad thing if the US ended up extraditing US troops to Cuba for trial for war crimes committed on their territory. On the other hand it means that Bush cannot block prosecutions by granting pardons.
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