As an aside, for any interested in international differences, Ireland can have supreme court decisions on the constitutionality of legislation WITHOUT any published dissent, provided that a reference is made by the President to the SC under an Article 26 reference. Once this is done no constitutional challenge can ever be made to the legislation again.
Thanks…and my apologies, @Legalsteel!
I should have guessed that with your handle…you most likely knew a thing or two about these things!
That summary at the end said it all.
My thoughts are that if Kavanaugh is confirmed…the worst thing the DEMS could have done was wring out any sense of impartiality that Kavanaugh may (or may not) have had.
With that said, however…people respond in unexpected ways to difficult experiences in their Lives. Who really knows what effect all of this will have on Kavanaugh and his eventual decisions.
Again…we’ll see.
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Sure, if you’re a racist, sexist, homophobic troglodyte. If you’re enlightened, you believe her/all of them/any of them.
No apologies needed, I am not American, so US lawyers on the forum are a better choice.
It is impossible to know with lifetime tenure.
Let me throw this out to you guys.
Don’t you think that the Anita Hill episode kind of “muted” Clarence Thomas…or is that just him?
OR…has he not been muted whatsoever?
(Note: I use the term “muted” in terms of just “being there” with little public appearance or opinion).
That’s a very hard question to answer. I don’t think most judges on the SC pursue public appearance in the way that RBG or Scalia do/did. Would he have been a more public personality? Maybe.
His voting record, however, is not that of a man cowed, as he is easily the most conservative justice on the court, and he isn’t afraid to publish lengthy decisions attesting to that fact.
IF confirmed…maybe what we will see from Kavanaugh…especially after this experience?
Well, I haven’t read his existing body of work, but maybe? It’s a lifetime appointment, maybe Thomas and himself pitch up a tent on that side of the voting aisle, and never depart. Maybe he moves to the centre and becomes the swing vote.
Lord knows, he’d a motive for very closely scrutinising any legislation proposed by Senators Blumenthal, Feinstein, Harris, or Booker. If confirmed, he’d have the means and opportunity.
Yep. This.
Goes back to that idea that people respond in different ways to their challenges in Life.
What may fill one person with a sense of revenge will fill another with greater compassion.
Come on. Nobody on that court is impartial politically. Why do you think this whole thing is happening in the first place? If the nominee was a stanch democrat he could have walked in the Senate wearing a fur coat, smoking a cigar, drinking scotch, with a playboy bunny on either arm wearing bikinis and the democrats would have rubber stamped it without a second glance.
Nobody really cares about this Ford woman. She’s a political football. A last ditch effort, a ‘hail mary’ to keep him from confirmation. Sadly, it worked enough to delay it.
I wish the Rep’s had the balls to have none of it. The accusation wasn’t credible, still isn’t credible, has no evidence, what so ever.
All I would have asked is, “Is there any evidence?”
“No”
“Next!”
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Ok it did link after all.
@Legalsteel
Enlarge png to see how Justices votes progress ideologically, through their tenure
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Might as well be, she doesn’t remember shit except Brett. Which proves nothing other than she knows who he is.
That’s very interesting.
So I’ve finally caught up with this case.
COME ON GUYS.
This is the kind of shit shows populist governments would put on to fool the mostly lower educated and less informed population when I lived in the 3rd world.
You can’t be fucking taking this shit seriously. Don’t get sucked into taking sides. Don’t even acknowledge this nonsense.
Tell others to do the same.
You’re better than this.
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https://www.weeklystandard.com/haley-byrd/hazmat-team-sent-to-cruz-campaign-office-in-houston
In other news.
You may have a point… But dang man, we need to get angry at something! Game of Thrones isn’t out till Spring of next year!
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Lol yeah it is pretty entertaining.
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Probably belonged to the Staffers…
You’d HAVE to be on Coke or something to work for Cruz and/or Trump…
(Kelly Anne Conway sure looks like she has been dipping into the Ice lately… )
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If someone is sending coke to the Cruz office, we have to consider that it is a kindly benefactor.
No argument from me, @pat…
It’s no wonder that a mere nomination for the Court mirrors the Nation’s political divide…