Disorder in the Court ......

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/opinion/03carter.html

By STEPHEN L. CARTER
Published: July 3, 2005
New Haven

I KEENLY remember the excitement at the Supreme Court when President Ronald Reagan announced the nomination of the little-known Sandra Day O'Connor to replace the retiring justice, Potter Stewart, in 1981. At the time I was a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall, and, although none of us knew who she was, all of us sensed that a new epoch had begun. We were right.

We cannot predict the far future, but we can predict the near future: it is going to be a messy summer.

What will make the summer messy is the certain controversy over Justice O'Connor's replacement. Mean-spirited idealists on the right and the left have been waiting years for this moment, and now it is upon them. Conservatives are demanding a true believer; worried liberals are gearing up to stop that from happening. The clash is likely to be ugly.

We all claim to believe in judicial independence, but our definition of independence too often turns out to mean deciding cases according to our druthers. A court that rules in our favor displays integrity and independence. A court that rules against us shows its ideology and partisanship. Need evidence? Listen to anyone on the right discuss classroom prayer or abortion. Listen to anyone on the left discuss Bush v. Gore."



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Originally posted by ivanhoe
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By STEPHEN L. CARTER
Published: July 3, 2005
New Haven

I KEENLY remember the excitement at the Supreme Court when President Ronald Reagan announced the nomination of the little-known Sandra Day O'Connor to replace the retiring justice, Potter Stewart, in 1981. At the time I was a law clerk for ...[text shortened]... "



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Originally posted by StarValleyWy
Yea. I am not too good at games. I want the "winners", ie, "conservatives" to give us what we elected them to give us. A good "conservative" judge who is more interested in "conserving" liberty, freedom and justice than in setting precidence by judicial decree. That is my thought.

How are you Joe? I have never even looked at the 'religion' ...[text shortened]... o devote all my "moral" energy toward trying to deflect "relativism" and amorality.

Mike

Originally posted by ivanhoe

I'm fine Mike .... the wheather is a bit hot where I live, but I guess that's the price we have to pay for driving around in cars and causing the greenhouse effect.

I am just sportin' with you Joe. Do you know how small Utah and Holland are in relation to the earth? Then think on the notion that the earth is to the sun as a pea is to a basketball.

And the sun is a variable star. Think about that.

Oh yea. And don't forget to notice that there is exactly "one" work of man visible from space with the unaided eye. The great wall of china. Because it is "straight". Not because it is large. And that is from a miserable 200 miles up. go out a thousand miles and there is nothing. No trace of man. Sorry. We ain't that big a deal. Much as we want to be.