High Court Returns to a Busy Schedule: blockbuster opinions and maybe a retirement greet SCOTUS

[usregimechange]

It wasn't exactly a lost fall for the U.S. Supreme Court, but, as the justices don their robes for the first oral arguments of 2010 starting today, there is a sense that the term is just now beginning to take shape.

Blockbuster opinions, riveting oral arguments and a possible retirement loom in the next six months, all promising to make the Court's first three months in session fade quickly from view...

And then there is the biggest imponderable of all -- the possible retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens by term's end in late June. He has acknowledged hiring only one clerk for next term, and he still seems the most likely to go, though sporadic speculation has justices ranging from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Antonin Scalia eyeing the exit door.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202437796175


Please let Scalia retire.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Scalia needs to go big time

The problem is that he probably will try to hold on until 2012 to see if a Repub wins back. Fortunately, I don't see THAT happening but, unfortunately, he will probably cling on to the job for as long as he can as long as the Democrats have the WH and the power to nominate a non-wingnut to SCOTUS to replace him. Once he is gone, the balance of the court won't tilt so heavily rightward.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Still waiting to hear if the Supremes will hear Don Siegelman's case.

No reversal without certiorari.

[Arkana]

3. Stevens is picking the right time.

A decent majority in the Senate will get whoever the President wants confirmed.

[usregimechange]

5. Unless they will start needing 60 for the first time ever.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. The incorporation of the 2nd Amendment. Won't that be grand.

[Bitwit1234]

6. So glad they will be during Obama's term

What really hurt us was Marshall being so ill he retired before he had a chance to see President Clinton win. If he had only waited. We would have a democratic majority instead of a republican one and Thomas would not be in the court. Think how wonderful that would have been..NO DAMN BUSH.