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2010-04-06 Home Front: Politix

Names floated as Justice Stevens weighs retirement

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Posted by gorb 2010-04-06 00:59|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Maybe we could have another racial supremacist like Sotomayor.

You know I can never get enough of racial supremacists.

Posted by badanov 2010-04-06 01:08|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-04-06 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The Senate has an advice and consent role in the appointment and approval of SCOTUS appointees. A simply majority is required to approve an appointee by the Senate.

The Republicans now have 41 votes in the Senate. Even though Pubs can't stop a simple majority vote, do they have enough votes for a filibuster; thus slowing down the process?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-06 09:15|| 2010-04-06 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 It is interesting that the conservative justices always emphasize supporting the constitution, but the liberal justices are far more determined that their "seat" remain a liberal one, and specifically for their "kind" of liberal.

This is why the left were so bitterly opposed to Clarence Thomas, because he "took away" the "liberal black seat" previously held by Thurgood Marshall.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg has decided that her seat is now the "liberal Jewish seat", so will refuse to retire until she gets a guarantee to be replaced by another liberal Jew.

Sonia Sotomayor probably assumes that hers is the "liberal Hispanic seat", but that's a tricky one, as she is Puerto Rican, and most Hispanics in the US are Mexicans, and different Hispanic groups do not associate with each other.

Obama will be torn between this "identity politics" and appointing what the Chicago machine want. On his own, he would want only the most radical leftist he could find, hopefully black. But the machine, and the rest of the party, have their own ideas as to what identity group they want to back.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are just limited to finding justices that back the constitution.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-06 09:33|| 2010-04-06 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Meanwhile, the Republicans are just limited to finding justices that back the constitution.

That is a good thing. Prefer that to the Balkanization of SCOTUS.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-06 10:56|| 2010-04-06 10:56|| Front Page Top

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