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."

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Back into the closet with the buttsex & aborti

[OwP_Fabricated]

It was a good run anyway.

Re:Which way?

[Locke2005]

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.