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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.
It falls squarely under: shit happens
... white and male and heterosexual and well off are all going to have to get used to the idea that for the next several years, we are all going to collectively be sodomized with large cacti.
/many/ years to come, his judicial appointments will last even longer. prepare to be raped from both ends.
people tell me why i lament rehnquist's passing. the answer is simple: 1) he is a human being, 2) while he was conservative, his likely replacements make him look like a hippy by comparison, 3) not only has bush's tax cuts and utterly irresponsible fiscal policy ensured that we will be feeling the sting of his tax cuts for many,
You shall be missed
Or not. Rehnquist might have just died, but guess what, he also thought segregation was constitutional.
Good riddance.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
As in, say goodbye to your rights online and off.
It wasn't enough that Roberts, one of the judges who ruled people accused of terrorism don't deserve trials, was nominated. Now we'll have another who is probably far worse than Roberts.
This means the idiocy of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the disposal of most of America's due process rights, will live far past the current President and Congress.
That's funny, I thought that the legislative branch "made law". Silly me...
excellent!
Since blasting McCarthy is so popular, how about another side to the story3 .html
http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2003/1
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Genie Grants Scalia Strict Constructionist Interpretation Of Wish for the win. :)
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
look dumbass, niggers rape, kill, and pillage. That's what they do.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Who are these people and any should anybody give a stuff?
The only good fascist is a dead fascist... and gentlemen, the gods of blessed us with one dead fascist.
I was amused to hear on the news this morning, though not confirmed yet, that George W. this morning attempted to strong arm the Democratic governor of Louisiana in to signing over control of the Louisiana National Guard inside here state to him in complete defiance of the Constitution.
Pretty sure that, as is typical for the Bush family and Rove, they've turned this in to a power grab and a political game. Its hard to tell but I suspect the Bush administration, FEMA, etc. go balls to the wall to provide relief and hand out billions in FEMA checks in Republican controlled states, especially his brother's Florida, and Mississippi run by good ole redneck and former RNC chairman Halley Barber. Barber a few days ago was pointing out how great the relief effort was going in his state with the implication it was all the fault of the Democrats in Louisiana the relief effort went bad(glossing over the situation there is a 100 times worse). So this has turned in to just another case of the Bush administration dividing instead of uniting, make the Democrats look bad, so they can run them out at the next electoral opportunity.
It also seems to be designed by the Bush administration to get the Congress and American people to gleefully overturn Posse Comitatus and dramatically expend the martial law powers of the Executive branch and the Federal government which should come in handy if there are future emergencies like mass protests against this incompetent administration.
@de_machina