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Home Front: Politix
Supreme Court Gals Threatened By "Irrational Fringe"
2006-03-17
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg assailed the court's congressional critics in a recent speech overseas, saying their efforts "fuel" an "irrational fringe" that threatened her life and that of a colleague, former justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Addressing an audience at the Constitutional Court of South Africa on Feb. 7, the 73-year-old justice, known as one of the court's more liberal members, criticized various Republican-proposed House and Senate measures that either decry or would bar the citation of foreign law in the Supreme Court's constitutional rulings. Conservatives often see the citing of foreign laws in court rulings as an affront to American sovereignty, adding to a list of grievances they have against judges that include rulings supporting abortion rights or gay rights.

Though the proposals do not seem headed for passage, Ginsburg said, "it is disquieting that they have attracted sizeable support. And one not-so-small concern -- they fuel the irrational fringe."
Posted by:Captain America

#40  Darrell:

Acording to O'Connor and Ginsberg many conservative republicans arent pleased
with the USSC, which has resulted in
death threats against them. (Do you guys
actually READ the articles these threads are
based on?)

You maybe pleased with Alito and Roberts now,
but as I questioned before, Suppose they DONT
vote as conservatives hope they will? Will THEY
become the target of death threats? That is the question.
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 16:42  

#39  Whats really interesting is the rise of the Conservative movements influence in trying to take over the USSC and enforce it's agenda thru pressuring President Bush and the Republican Congress into nominating only persons pre-approved by them. What they did to poor Harriet
Miers was particularly brutal.

One has to wonder, with the rise in death threats against the USSC judges, by the right wings "irrational fringe", what would happen
to recent USSC appointees Alito and Roberts if they DONT get the rulings, vote & pull the court in the direction, that the far right conservative movement is expecting in return for appointments to the USSC. Assasination targets?
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 16:00  

#38  wang fong:

No, for that just look in the mirror. lol
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 14:50  

#37  gilbong wang:

and yet you respond to it everytime..lol

works like a charm.
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 13:15  

#36  WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has acknowledged a specific death threat against her and her retired colleague Sandra Day O'Connor, blaming lawmakers for fueling "the irrational fringe."

The odd thing is that I have seen these exact type of death threats against U.S. government
officials posted here in Rantburg, often without
dedaction from the "moderators" here. Is it because they support assasination of these officials because they dont expouse the agenda of the right wing fringe?
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 12:25  

#35  anonymous2u, Germany's abortion law is indeed much more restrictive than America's. Or at least was so a decade ago. In an attempt to make up for Nazi atrocities (or so I was told), no woman can get an abortion unless a) she pursuades her doctor that having the baby will cause severe mental distress or physical disability, and b) she obtains a signed letter from the doctor that she persists in her conviction despite having received counselling. Without that letter, no abortion. As most of the doctors don't believe in abortions under any circumstances, it isn't easy to get that letter.

However, I b'lieve the laws are less draconian in Holland, and that isn't so far away.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-17 23:31  

#34  D@mn strikethrough button and Mozilla! Anyone have a fix?
Posted by: BA   2006-03-17 18:14  

#33  Whoops, cut and pasted wrong quote. Meant to cut/paste this one at top of my previous rant (sorry Darrell). And, none of us really think the libs used their nominees to "take over the USSC and enforce it's agenda thru pressuring President Bush and the Republican Congress into nominating only persons pre-approved by them" do we Rantburgers?

"Whats really interesting is the rise of the Conservative movements influence in trying to take over the USSC and enforce it's agenda thru pressuring President Bush and the Republican Congress into nominating only persons pre-approved by them. What they did to poor Harriet
Miers was particularly brutal."
Posted by: BA   2006-03-17 18:13  

#32  Clearly paranoid, Bystander. Have you taken your meds today? Did you support "poor Harriet Miers"?

Whah, whah, whah! Poor Harriet Miers. Good grief, you think that bistander had forgotten how the Dems treated Robert Bork and Justice (my, how I love the sound of that) Clarence Thomas? Now, THAT was brutal! And, somehow, just because lil' old Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it was the VRWC boogie men attacking her doesn't make it so, Bi! Whoops, almost forgot to add your signature ROFLMAO!
Posted by: BA   2006-03-17 18:10  

#31  RubberNecker's so twisty-curvy his issues have issues.
Posted by: Threrong Sholet2426   2006-03-17 18:03  

#30  What do bet ByStander is CommonSense, BirdDirt, Left Angle, Cassini...?
Posted by: SR-71   2006-03-17 18:02  

#29  what hospital are you posting from, little boy? Patient or bedpan collector? IP check again?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-17 17:13  

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Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 16:42  

#27  BiStander
Posted by: RD   2006-03-17 16:29  

#26  Clearly paranoid, Bystander. Have you taken your meds today? Did you support "poor Harriet Miers"?

For many of us, one of our reasons for voting for Bush was to get judges like Roberts and Alito. Are ANY of my fellow Bush-supporters here disappointed with Roberts and Alito?

Oh, by the way, Bystander, we love John Bolton too. Try not to soil your pants at the thought.
Posted by: Darrell   2006-03-17 16:22  

#25  
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Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 16:00  

#24  I find it very interesting that she traveled to South Africa and sited some web site that allegedly addressed "Commando" threats to her life. The word "kommando" is an Afriaans invention dating back to the early Boer Wars. Boer cavalary elements were so named. One must wonder if it's use in her speech was intentional.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-03-17 15:36  

#23  Lol! Roflamo! Ha ha!

Cutting edge arguments their BiStander.
Posted by: 6   2006-03-17 15:36  

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Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 14:50  

#21  Lol. And you've just admitted you're an inane asinine insincere tripe troll.

Mods?
Posted by: Glirong Whong8693   2006-03-17 13:35  

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Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 13:15  

#19  I don't like Bader Ginsburg's politics, but I'm pretty unhappy about SCOTUS justices receiving death threats.

That's a big more serious than "having their widdle feelings hurt" anon2u.
Posted by: lotp   2006-03-17 12:56  

#18  No, it's to bring you here to post your inane asinine insincere tripe posed as a simpleton's questions. Works like a champ.
Posted by: Glirong Whong8693   2006-03-17 12:27  

#17  
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Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 12:25  

#16  Criminey - they're as bad as those "educate" Haaaa-vard Victorians who needed the fainting couches.

Appointed because of the feminist movement and they can't stand their widdle feelings being hurt and can't take criticism.

In short, no balls.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-03-17 10:47  

#15  Bros. Judd posted an article yesterday(?) that Germany has a more restrictive abortion policy than we do, yet our jet-setting international law-loving judges don't want to apply that particular law.....
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-03-17 10:44  

#14  Sorry, that was me ranting....Anyways, I meant to add that we have enough issues here just following our own Constitution. Throw in other nation's laws/mores, and besides being un-Constitutional itself, you're asking for a disaster.
Posted by: BA   2006-03-17 10:18  

#13  that should be "Many polls show..."
Posted by: BA   2006-03-17 10:16  

#12  When will they get it through their thick skulls that the large majority of America has begun to see them as the lunatic fringe and shoving their morals down our throats? 33 years later, Roe v Wade (no matter your feelings on the matter) is still un-settled law, in that it's still very much debated publicly, and not accepted by many in the US. Even without that, though their march to protect it all the way to 9 months (and sometimes beyond) after conception disgusts a huge majority of Americans. Many show that even those who agree with RvW may not agree with it all the way to term (e.g. the courts' smack down of the Partial birth Abortion Ban, smack downs of State parental notification laws, etc.). But add all the other rulings more recently (gay "rights", Kelo (eminent domain), the ACLUs march to ban any single crucifix in the nation, etc.) decided by them and you see why Jefferson called them "the despotic branch." Even if Roe v Wade gets overturned (a BIG if), it still basically goes back to the way it was pre-Roe...to the States. You can't tell me that blue states will "ban" abortion too (like California, NY, pretty much the entire NE, etc.).
Posted by: BA   2006-03-17 10:16  

#11  Do go live in l'etat then,
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-03-17 09:41  

#10  'L'Etat, c'est moi'
Posted by: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg   2006-03-17 09:38  

#9  Maybe when she arrives home, she'll be wearing a burka.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-03-17 09:38  

#8  Well, I for one am beside myself with joy that she is going on a fact finding trip of international courts to bolster her fine arguments for inspired decisions like Kelo.

I mean, US Constitutional law is sooooo restrictive on what an unelected judge can do....
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-03-17 08:02  

#7  This one isn't retired yet. That is what makes it worse.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2006-03-17 07:40  

#6  Why this sudden need to go abroad to criticize? Is she not capable of saying such things at home, where something might be done about it... if there is something that needs to be done? Was it perhaps a mild senility that led to her retirement?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-17 07:18  

#5  Ah, I see. Jet lag is why she can't stay awake during court sessions.
Posted by: Flirt Ebboting9253   2006-03-17 06:16  

#4  "...irrational fringe." ?

I thought they were her backers....
Posted by: GK   2006-03-17 02:54  

#3  Arrogant warmongering trouble-making Male Brute GOP-Conservative Fascists = Half-A-Commie(s) trying to escape the glutches of their Commie Mothers again - look, Ruthie, bring it up again when Russia-China, etal. dev a history of using American laws in own jurisprudence systems: DON'T ARGUE GLOBAL/INTERNAT EQUALISM, BILATERALISM, or MUTI-LATERALISM WHEN YOU REALLY MEAN "AMERICA-ONLY"!? No law(s) in America stops the US DemoLeft from making the same public or private demands on other world states which the US DemoLeft demands from America.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-03-17 00:40  

#2  ruth get a high colonic and stfu.
Posted by: RD   2006-03-17 00:23  

#1  "...irrational fringe."

Ruth - Looked in the mirror, lately?
Posted by: PBMcL   2006-03-17 00:12  

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