Sandra Day O'Connor Warns Of "Beginnings" Of Dictatorship...

[caligirl]

front page of Huff post.

www.huffingtonpost.com


some of her comments:NPR's Nina Totenberg aired an amazing story this morning about a talk that just-resigned Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gave at Georgetown University. The first woman to serve on the High Court wouldn't allow her actual words to be broadcast, and that's a shame, because -- based on Totenberg's report -- every American needs to hear what she said. The Reagan appointee who became a moderate and an American icon -- Bush v. Gore notwithstanding -- all but named names in thinly veiled attacks on former House majority leader Tom DeLay and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, and ended with a stunning warning.

O'Connor told her Georgetown audience that judges can make presidents, Congress and governors "really really mad," and that if judges don't make people angry, they aren't doing their job. But she said judicial effectiveness is "premised on the notion that we won't be subject to retaliation for our judicial acts." While hailing the American system of rights and privileges, she noted that these don't protect the judiciary, that "people do":

better link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/10/sandra-day-oconnor-warns_n_17093.html

[phantom power]

1. Too bad she retired.

[shoelace414]

2. her warning is about keeping the Judicary independent

I wonder why she retired if she feels this way.

[caligirl]

4. she can't say that if she is on the SC. I don't think so anyway.

Going to Georgetown and warning people is one way to alert the American public to wake up.

[barbaraann]

3. IT STARTED WITH RONALD REAGAN.

I hope Ms. O'Connor rots in hell for her part in what the GOP has done to us.

[i miss america]

10. She participated in the shredding of our Constitution.

If she wants to make amends, she better change her position and allow her opinion to be widely known. Otherwise, like Lady Macbeth, she'll never be able to wash all that blood off her hands.

[barbaraann]

17. Republicans must wear red to hide the blood of innocents.

n/t

[400Years]

19. I'd go back a little further with the Dulles boys and Hoover

[barbaraann]

22. I just use Reagan because that's when they hoodwinked

a majority of American voters. You are correct that it started behind the scenes with the Dulleses, etc. but Reagan took it mainstream. It's sad that it only took a B-grade actor...

[coalition_unwilling]

29. Yes, I'm with you about * as the apotheosis of Reaganism

I'm not sure I hope she "rots in hell" but I do think "mea culpas" are definitely in order from her in order to secure her reputation.

[davidinalameda]

5. did she say that she feels remorse for her role in the 2000 election

that was the beginning of the current slide down hill

[Mythsaje]

6. Suddenly...

(Tinfoil hat time) I wondered if she was "convinced" to retire.

[donsu]

12. I got that feeling too - that she was saying she had no one protecting

her back

[caligirl]

20. edited, wrong place to put this comment.+

[Atman]

7. Then why the fuck did she abandon us?

Hey, I know her hubby was sick, but still...Sandra...when we needed you most!

[radio4progressives]

14. By resigning and taking another position, she betrays her own warnings

she said she had to resign in order to go back home to Arizona and take care of her ailing husband - but she took a position as chancellor at a college in Washington, knowing how the SCOTUS was going to be filled with white male fascists - Bush vs Gore was decided by her vote. She owed the American people for her terrible mistake. She left the SCOTUS with only one woman seated, knowing that the likes of Scalia would be nominated and pushed through to take her place. Her duplicity in creating the fascist state by these decisions will go down in history. Shame on her!

[rodeodance]

8. in the end it comes down to THE PEOPLE.

......she noted that these don't protect the judiciary, that "people do":

[xchrom]

33. lol -- you mean all those people who don't believe in evolution?

good luck with that.{ms. o'connor}

this country is going to split.

[ReadTomPaine]

9. She deserves her husband's fate for what she's done to all of us. n/t

[caligirl]

23. Thats pretty harsh, Roe V Wade means something to many and

I for one don't think Alzheimers is something to use as punishment. Bush got into power for many other reasons, she should not be the whipped verbally as though she is entirely at fault. Roe V wade saved thousands of womens live for decades, she ways the deciding vote I believe in that matter.

There is ample blame to spread around, not to an old woman who now speaks out.

[ReadTomPaine]

31. I disagree, but I respect your viewpoint, Cali! n/t

[caligirl]

39. umm, okay then.

:pals:

[OrokuSaki]

28. Hmm

I don't like her either, but you may want to ask yourself, "Does her husband deserve his fate?"

[ReadTomPaine]

32. I have no idea about him, but a very definite opinion of her.

5-4. That's as far as I need go. Not that your question made sense in any case.

[terrya]

11. Didn't she vote FOR Bush in Bush v Gore in 2000?

She helped install him in 2000. Fuck her and her opinion. She helped create this situation.

[radio4progressives]

16. exactly.

[RazzleDazzle]

13. please post the permalink

[caligirl]

21. its there now.

[buff2]

15. I wonder if she has any regrets she helped put an evil moron in office?

I'll bet most repukes regret propping dim son up for so long,now that they see who he REALLY is. I would be laughing my ass off right now if it wasn't for the rest of us having to suffer too.Chimpy is a total failure and the biggest embarrassment ever. It's really odd that it's taken so long for repukes to realize what this demon is capable of...but they can't turn on him all the way because they have to save face.

Repukes don't turn on each other,it's their "Golden Rule",so it puts them in a very difficult position to have to support him while running away from him at the same time. Ha ha....they got what they asked for.:)

[barbaraann]

18. Just like Eisenhower - warning us but doing nothing.

Republicans are so worthless.

[Vickers]

24. Like my kids saying the dog is loose after *they* left the gate open.

:eyes:

[xchrom]

34. they know you're going to send them after him/her,

but there they stand -- ''mom/dad -- the dog is out!''

:banghead:

[Vickers]

35. Exactly! When these criminal cowards are finally out of power, we'll

all be closing the gates and looking for our dogs.

[Bluebear]

25. 'judges can make presidents'....no shit, Sherlock

Thanks for nothing, Sandra.

[ronnykmarshall]

26. Hey Sandy!

YOU HELPED START THIS SHIT!!

[OrokuSaki]

27. Hmmm...

How hypocritical of her.

[AtomicKitten]

30. a day late and a dollar short

Considering Ms. O'Connor's well publicized and grotesquely inappropriate admission when she heard Gore was looking like the winner (that he was) in 2000 that she could not retire if he won, and considering her participation in the 5:4 judicial coup d'etat that year, I find her after-the-fact calling a spade a spade anemic.

If she felt this way so strongly, she should have stayed on the court and made a difference, at least until a Democratic president could replace her.

[JohnWxy]

36. I wish she would have realized this a little sooner. It might have saved

a democracy .... OURS, (remember when we had one - pre 2000).


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[Disturbed]

37. She speaks up now?

RW hypocristy has no limits.

[Neil Lisst]

38. she made her bones as a party hack in Arizona with Rehnquist

She finished a party hack, too, replaced by a worse party hack.

[fishwax]

40. well, she's partly responsible

I wish she'd been wise to this threat back in late 2000 ...

[windy252]

41. It's very difficult for me to respect her when she says this

since she's one of the people responsible for starting it.

[Pied Piper]

42. Too little, too late

She had the chance to stop it, and she failed.

[AX10]

43. Then why did she hand the "election" to Bush?

[Jade Fox]

44. Okay, she gets credit for changing...

but she's got a lot to answer for. She helped get us into this mess.

[Gingergal]

45. Rehnquist began to worry about the attacks on the judiciary.

He was holding on to his position in the supreme court despite his poor health and wouldn't retire. That is how worried he was. I wonder if he and Sandra talked about this.

[realFedUp]

46. did any mainstream newspaper carry this today?

any links would be appreciated.