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Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80
After 33 years at the bench, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has passed away at the age of 80 due to thyroid cancer. This comes after the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor from the court over the summer. Rehnquist's passing gives President Bush the opportunity to replace the second justice of his term, this time perhaps to assume the highest role in the judicial system.
We're coming to get you. We're going to put laws all over your body--just think of it as nationalizing your private parts. We're going to make sure every redneck has a gun and a deer license and we're going to let them set up campers in your back yard. We'll indoctrinate your children and take away your money and give it to faith healers. You better move to Canada while you still can.
Considering he voted against the expansion of school desegregation plans and the establishment of legalized abortions and was in favor of school prayer, capital punishment and states' rights. Doesn't really gel with my politics. Sounds like a hillbilly to me. But what do I know.
Jefferson, and to a lesser extent Madison, are my mentors.
So you're a hypocrite then?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
If only he could have interpreted the Constitution correctly. Now that would have been helpful.
go get it
Of course I see you live in SF, the most liberal area of the country. You probably support gay marriage, want to tax to oblivion people with money, and other such nonsense.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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If we're stupid and we beat your best, twice. That must make you moronic.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
So a requirement that a potential justice be against murder is a religious test now?
No you jackass. I was reminding liberals that they can't disqualify potential justices solely because they're "fundamentalist christians".
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
1) read the 9/11 commision report they mention a few of the ties they had and even mentioned that the al-qaeda was going to be setting up training camps in iraq at one time. This story about al-qaeda and iraq not being friendly is extermly outdated by the the time 9/11 took place.
2) For the statements to be lie would require that they knew the statements were false when they said them. At the time the confirmed evidence was shown it was from sources both they and other governments had reviewed and accepted. Give me a quote where rumsefield lied.
3) Iraq was one of the possible people that most people figured did the attacks; even after al-qaeda was identified it would of been smart to make sure that iraq had no hand in it. As for attacking Iraq that was recognized as something that would probably happen to get the results of having saddam follow through with the obligations, or his removal, he aggreed to back in the early 90. Saddam did not want to follow through and bush figured that attack plans should be drawn up so they would be available if needed, this has been back up by various british personnel and papers. It took close to 1 1/2 years between the 9/11 attack and the the joint country reattack on Iraq and during that time there were many times when saddam would fullfill his obligations and the re-attack would not be needed. If they were looking for justification to attack iraq they sure did it a wrong. 4) Most of thoses countries had no interest in upsetting the status quo. They were happy with iraq sealed away out of site of the public and the two sides exchangeing minor attacks on a regular basis. They all believed that iraq had WMD(read UN meeting briefings) but figured iraq could be treated like north korea and over time saddam would die and be replaced with someone who would follow the obliganations of the country.
Yes, be you liberal, conservative or somewhere in between, let's show some respect for this ARCH CONSERVATIVE. Let's not pretend that replacing him with a Bush "Conservative", who will work tirelessly to destroy our right to privacy, is really "conservative". Let's not pretend that replacing him with someone who backs unquestioned authority of the government to kidnap and torture people in places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib is "conservative".
Let's not pretend that Bush will put anyone onto the Supreme Court or its lower divisions who might allow prosecutions of Bush administrators for war crimes or criminal negligence after disasters like hurricane Katrina. Let's have some respect for at least Rehnquist's lifetime of rhetoric about fairness and justice. Maybe a little respect for the experience needed to run the Supreme Court and the Judicial branch, and not appoint a brand new Justice, with only a couple of years experience as a judge, to run the whole thing.
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