Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies

[Hiebz]

I saw this and about jumped in my seat, I thought of the Daily Show where Pat Robertson was praying for yet another vacancy in the Supreme court ...... spooky

the power of prayer!

[QueenAdrock]

Dad: "He'll be replaced by someone even worse."
Mom: "Is Hitler available?"

Damn I love my parents. :D

[QueenAdrock]

"Take back" your courts from Rehnquist? Oh yeah, I guess he wasn't a conservative, and now you'll get someone you REALLY want. :rolleyes:

As days go by, gmsisko grows a little bit more retarded.

Anyways, Rehnquist is dead, I'm havin' champagne tonight! :D

[Medellia]

When a good conservative gets appointed, you may start to cry. You can cry all you want. You will not get your way. We will take back our courts.
"We" will take back "our" courts?

[Funkaloyd]

Sorry to point fingers, but you two are the worst at this. Just ignore him, and he'll go away. It's worked before.

[DroppinScience]

Conservative or not, I do find it distasteful to be bashing Rehnquist like this. The man was battling cancer and he did his job until the very end. I respect him for his dedication.

[Medellia]

Sorry to point fingers, but you two are the worst at this. Just ignore him, and he'll go away. It's worked before.
Meh, there is no way in hell that he will be completely ignored.

PS-Droppin, I never said anything like that. And I think what sisko said was just as distasteful as people celebrating his death. He's celebrating as well, just for a different reason.

[Funkaloyd]

He'll be ignored if we ignore him.

[infidel]

Conservative or not, I do find it distasteful to be bashing Rehnquist like this. The man was battling cancer and he did his job until the very end. I respect him for his dedication.My feeling as to why he kept working till the end is that he wanted to outlive bush's presidency.
He knew anyone who bush would appoint would be a disaster for America's freedom.
I think many of the older justices are doing the same thing.

[QueenAdrock]

Conservative or not, I do find it distasteful to be bashing Rehnquist like this. The man was battling cancer and he did his job until the very end. I respect him for his dedication.


I do feel sorry that he had to deal with cancer, because I hate cancer in all its forms, and I do respect him doing his job while battling cancer because I personally know how hard it is to deal with. But with all that aside, he was a conservative asshole in my book. Am I sad that he's gone? No.

I don't find anything wrong with bashing Rehnquist. I bashed him when he was alive, so why should it be different now? I'll still continue to bash Reagan, even though he's passed away. I don't agree with their politics, or most of anything they've done.

[pshabi]

My feeling as to why he kept working till the end is that he wanted to outlive bush's presidency.
He knew anyone who bush would appoint would be a disaster for America's freedom.
I think many of the older justices are doing the same thing.
You don't think the "older justices" are in bed with the big wigs?

Let's remember, Sandra Day was the deciding vote that said Florida should not be recounted back in the Gore/Bush race.

[Documad]

Yeah, he was hanging around in hopes that a more liberal, freedom-loving president would appoint his replacement. :rolleyes:

Rehnquist was appointed by Nixon and elevated to chief by Reagan.
They liked him for a reason.
There used to be justices who supported rights of unpopular folks, and he consistently disagreed with them.
He had a long career of standing up for the interests of the big against the little--the powerful against the powerless. That's his legacy.
Just two years ago, he voted that it should be a crime for two adult gay men to have sex in the privacy of their own home.

(All five justices who voted for Bush in the Bush v. Gore thing were the deciding vote, and anyhow, I think the chief votes last, so it was probably Rehnquist who technically broke the tie.)

I think he held out for the same reason many old judges do--he enjoyed what he was doing. I think there should be a mandatory retirement age.

[valvano]

I think there should be a mandatory retirement age.

i assume you also support term limits for such folks as ted kennedy, robert byrd, etc.....

[King PSYZ]

ALL public offices should have a term limit, right, left, up, or down

[DroppinScience]

I don't find anything wrong with bashing Rehnquist. I bashed him when he was alive, so why should it be different now?

This kind of talk was more what I was referring to...


Anyways, Rehnquist is dead, I'm havin' champagne tonight! :D

It's perfectly legitimate to criticize his days in the Supreme Court (and I'm not exactly a fan of him), whether alive or dead, but I think literally celebrating his death (even if it was just to provoke sisko) is out of line.

Maybe I'm a little sensitive since my mom had a (thankfully, successful) battle with breast cancer this year, but just because sisko may act like an idiot, it doesn't give you the right to be an idiot too.

[QueenAdrock]

Don't be sensitive. My mother's best friend died of cancer. I'm not celebrating the cancer, I'm celebrating the fact that he won't be around anymore fucking things up on the supreme court.

[Monsieur Decuts]

nope just his protoge'

[DroppinScience]

I'm celebrating the fact that he won't be around anymore fucking things up on the supreme court.

His successor will carry on that fine tradition. Not much to celebrate there. :rolleyes:

[QueenAdrock]

That's true too. But seeing as just *how* conservative he was, I'm not sure if Bush could appoint another person as narrow-minded as he was. Well, I'm sure he could, but I'm thinking it'll be hard to find someone like that.

It's kind of like rotten tomatoes, and tomatoes. I still hate both of them, just one's a little more horrifying than the other. ;)

[DroppinScience]

I've heard it said that whoever is going to go through the confirmation hearings to replace Rehnquist may have a tougher time than John Roberts.

We'll just have to see, I suppose. But it ain't right that there's two vacancies to fill under the Bush administration. There better be some vacancies under the Obama administration, I tells ya.

[valvano]

That's true too. But seeing as just *how* conservative he was, I'm not sure if Bush could appoint another person as narrow-minded as he was. Well, I'm sure he could, but I'm thinking it'll be hard to find someone like that.

It's kind of like rotten tomatoes, and tomatoes. I still hate both of them, just one's a little more horrifying than the other. ;)

you ever heard of the saying about to the victor goes the spoils???

maybe if kerry had gotten more voters, you would have gotten your wish...but kerry lost...as your favorite pac says, move on

its simple reflection, bush won the majority of the voters, he therefore has the right to put up whomever he seems fit...and hope it flys

[King PSYZ]

The problem fundementaly is that we have right and left leaning judges who are also open about being so.

We need judges who will stick to the letter of the law and rule by those measures, not by their politcal agendas and allegencies.

[QueenAdrock]

Yeah, because I said I love moveon, right? I guess all democrats love that organization, and all surrounding liberal organizations because we're all packaged into a neat little package. Or, at least to the Republicans, we are. Thanks to Republican stereotyping, I also love abortions, and welfare! I mean, I didn't think I did before, but I guess now I HAVE to.

But thanks for pointing out the obvious that Bush gets the vote because he won. I didn't realize that. I do, however, hope that he puts someone that will be level-headed, well-rounded, and thoughtful. Though I don't see him or any of his cronies having those attributes, so it'd be a long shot to wish for those three things for anyone he appoints.

[DroppinScience]

We need judges who will stick to the letter of the law and rule by those measures, not by their politcal agendas and allegencies.

So you want activist judges calling the shots? :eek:

[King PSYZ]

yes exactly

[valvano]

Yeah, because I said I love moveon, right? I guess all democrats love that organization, and all surrounding liberal organizations because we're all packaged into a neat little package. Or, at least to the Republicans, we are. Thanks to Republican stereotyping, I also love abortions, and welfare! I mean, I didn't think I did before, but I guess now I HAVE to.

But thanks for pointing out the obvious that Bush gets the vote because he won. I didn't realize that. I do, however, hope that he puts someone that will be level-headed, well-rounded, and thoughtful. Though I don't see him or any of his cronies having those attributes, so it'd be a long shot to wish for those three things for anyone he appoints.

you've stated in the past that you got an email invite from moveon.org to some rally against rove...

[valvano]

oh, one more thing queen....

the terps should have lost that game against navy saturday....

[Funkaloyd]

you ever heard of the saying about to the victor goes the spoils???
maybe if kerry had gotten more voters, you would have gotten your wish...but kerry lost...as your favorite pac says, move on
its simple reflection, bush won the majority of the voters, he therefore has the right to put up whomever he seems fit...and hope it flys
Whereas I thought the power to make Supreme Court appointments rested with the winner of a Rock Paper Scissors tournament between Bush, Kerry and Vladimir Putin.

Thank you for your clarification.

[QueenAdrock]

you've stated in the past that you got an email invite from moveon.org to some rally against rove...

I did. I was forwarded it by a friend, and I passed it on to this board, since there are people in the DC area who hate Rove too. That doesn't mean I'm a part of moveon, or agree with everything they do. I did agree with the fact that Karl Rove is a douche, and we should protest him. You can agree with certain parts of organizations, and not belong to them, or have them on your "favorites" list.

the terps should have lost that game against navy saturday....

I really hope you're not trying to be inflamatory, because if you are, I really don't care. I don't like our football team, I don't like our basketball, college sports are overrated.

And from what I've heard, isn't our football supposed to suck?

[Documad]

So you want activist judges calling the shots? :eek:
Okay, that whole exchange puzzled me.

He was saying the opposite--that judges should be deciding cases based upon the letter of the law. And that's fine. Except that cases rarely go to court when there is a clear legal answer.

btw, the term "activist judges" pisses me off. I don't know what it means, and it's always used in a negative way by people who are upset when judges refuse to decide things based upon a particular set of conservative religious values. These people who decry activist judges actually WANT activist judges.

[Funkaloyd]

I think he mean it sarcastically/satirically ;)

[valvano]

And from what I've heard, isn't our football supposed to suck?

not suck, but ralph is under some pressure this year,
what has already killed umd this year is is that that fresman, elise (not sure of spelling) , you had a whole offensive strategy built around him.....then he failed to qualify. that sucks.

friedgen also hasnt kept up the recruiting momentum from 3 years ago.

dont worry though, strawberry will be back for basketball this year and is fully recovered. he was a huge off the bench player last year for the terps..

you should get a little bit more interested in athletics there at umd..

[DroppinScience]

I think he mean it sarcastically/satirically ;)

Word.

Oh Documad, I can't believe you took my statement literally. :D

[Ali]

"Take back" your courts from Rehnquist? Oh yeah, I guess he wasn't a conservative, and now you'll get someone you REALLY want. :rolleyes:

As days go by, gmsisko grows a little bit more retarded.

Anyways, Rehnquist is dead, I'm havin' champagne tonight! :DAnd look who you got... (http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/09/06/inside-compare.jpg) It actually looks like Roberts is about to give Rehnquist a Hummer in that pic :p

For a quarter-century, William Rehnquist was a mentor to John Roberts, the federal appeals court judge now nominated to succeed the late chief justice.

Roberts was a law clerk to Rehnquist in 1980-81, and like Rehnquist, he became a lawyer for a conservative White House. When he wrote policy memos for President Reagan then legal briefs for the first President Bush, Roberts occasionally cited the work of Rehnquist, who died Saturday of thyroid cancer at age 80. more (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-06-comparing-judges_x.htm)

More of the same, eh?