I thought I cared about this, too.
Posted on October 31st, 2008 at 1:58 pm by Eric Puff
Look closely. Will these nine people remain in their posts for another four years? Eight years? Need a hint? (left to right) Anthony Kennedy is 72. Stephen Breyer is 70. John Paul Stevens is 88. Clarence Thomas is 60. John Roberts is 53. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75. Antonin Scalia is 72. Samuel Alito is 58. David Souter is 69.
I’m told that I care more about the economy than anything else. (I’m always grateful when informed of my opinions and the order in which I prioritize issues.) But I’m sure the appointment of SC Justices is pretty high on my list, too. Four of nine are at least as old as the “one foot in the grave, the other on a banana peel” McCain. Our candidates have two different sets of values for nominating justices. Does this matter in the election? I haven’t heard this discussed lately. (Maybe there’s nothing more to say.) Do we care?
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I’m with you, Puffster.
I feel that the appointment of judges (Supreme Court and lower) is the biggest issue of all.
It affects almost every other issue that I care about - especially moral, religious, and basic freedom issues.
Luckily, most of the oldest members are the left-wing nutjobs, so maybe Obomba won’t be able to do TOO much damage. (We’ll have to pray daily for the health of Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.
btw…is that Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg, or is Justice Alito holding up a hand puppet? Wow, the lady is tiny!
I’ve been wondering the same thing. This week I heard an audio tape, I can’t remember where — sorry — of an Obama interview, basically saying that judges needed to “break free” from the constraints of the Constitution and that he wanted to nomintate people who cared about what it was like to be a teenage mother, a poor person and so on. Never once did he mentioned he wanted to nominate people who cared about silly things like: the law, the Constitution….trival things really.
We shall see, who ever is the next pres, I think will at least be in the position to nominate at least 2 judges to the SC….ought to be really interesting w/o that fillibuster in the Senate. I guess we’ll finally get the up or down vote that so many wanted to have happen with Roberts a few years ago.