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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:39 AM Original message |
Which SCOTUS judges may step down in the next few years? How will it change the tilt of the Court? |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. We have a constitutional lawyer replacing them. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. That doesn't answer my question. How does replacing 3 liberals with 3 liberals change anything? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. The SCOTUS is crucial because we absolutely cannot lose the liberal justices we have there now. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 07:25 AM Response to Reply #6 |
29. Kennedy is decidedly not a liberal. And replacing Kennedy, a swing vote, |
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StreetKnowledge (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. We need to replace Kennedy with a Liberal, too. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. He's 72, so that's a possibility too. And btw, ... |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'm worried that Obama takes himself seriously as a post-ideology |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. OMFG, that would make my head explode! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Here's hoping he doesn't make another ... |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. Stevens |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. The best that I can come up with is that at least it won't be anymore |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
9. Stevens (age 88) is the eldest and most likely to retire. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 01:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Thanks for laying out the pecking order. I did not realize Scalia was so far up there. |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. I have heard rumors that Scalia does not enjoy being on the Supreme bench. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:39 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. I've read the same rumors. I'll believe it when he's gone. |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. I'm just shocked that Bush didn't try to appoint some college Republican and really screw us for 30 |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:35 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Alito and Roberts are the youngest and steadfastly right-wing. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. Stevens |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 01:08 AM Response to Original message |
11. Stephens, Ginsberg, Breyer, Souter, Kennedy. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 01:57 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. That fuckin' Scalia will probably live to be 105. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:22 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. If there's a God .... |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:24 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. If he does, he'll probably keep Thomas going ala Weekend at Bernies, too. |
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Creideiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 09:41 AM Response to Reply #20 |
32. That or Thomas will leave, too |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. i'm hoping stevens gets into a knife fight with clarence thomas in the scotus showers... |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Yeah, but I don't think we are allowed to say or speculate like that on DU. n/t |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:47 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. ... |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:54 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. No. I did not think you were serious. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. you had a point? |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 02:29 AM Response to Original message |
21. Anything can happen in four or eight years. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 08:49 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Sometimes a draw is a win. |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
27. We can hope Scalia |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 03:24 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Naw, Cheney would not endanger Scalia. More likely, |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-26-08 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
30. Even if 3+1 retire and are replaced by Obama |
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