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She's 50 years old. She'll be on the bench at least 20 years. This is a fight worth fighting. If we allow Obama to pack the courts with judicial activists our children will be the ones to suffer.

 

 

Like you have any stake in not getting her approved. God you're a dolt. Do you not know how things work? Dont answer that.

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She's 50 years old. She'll be on the bench at least 20 years. This is a fight worth fighting. If we allow Obama to pack the courts with judicial activists our children will be the ones to suffer.

 

And Bush didn't pack the court with judicial activists? :)

 

The only difference is that you agree with their activist decisions, so in your view they're not activists, they're mainstream. :sick:

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Okay, I will bite, what is wrong with another woman?

 

I think there's enough representation from women on the court already.

 

I'm not a big fan of the Supreme Court as it is -- they wield too much power with no accountability to the people of this nation.

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I think there's enough representation from women on the court already.

 

I'm not a big fan of the Supreme Court as it is -- they wield too much power with no accountability to the people of this nation.

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No. Im just saying that a person with a strict interpretation of the constitution like we need would never be on obamas short list.

 

So just to be clear, you'd be against anyone Obama nominated simply because Obama nominated them.

 

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I think there's enough representation from women on the court already.

2 of 9 is enough, and 3 of 9 is too much? It's too much for 51% of the population to be represented by 33% of the court? If that's too much, where do the 6 white males out of 9 rank on the representation scale? Is Clarence Thomas "enough representation" for African Americans? Or could we just once go on the merits of the individual?

 

I've yet to see much here on what of her judicial and legal acumen makes her either a good choice or a bad choice.

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I think you should be made aware it was designed this way by the founding fathers. They intentionally built the system so justices would not have to pander for votes. It was a brilliant move and it's part of what our country is built on.

 

.. are you from Mexico? Let me see your papers.

 

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We seem to do well enough with judges in lower courts running for election. Why not the SC? AS it is, they reign in virtual fiefdoms for as long as they like. At least slap term limits on them...oh wait, you can't. They'll just overturn the idea.

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This is enough for me - The Gray Lady doesn't like the nomination :)

 

In a 2001 Harvard Law Review article, Ms. Kagan defended a robust assertion of presidential power unless specifically limited by Congress — albeit in the service of “progressive goals” on the domestic front. She told the Senate last year that she agreed the government has the right to indefinitely detain enemy combatants captured around the world. As Mr. Obama’s solicitor general, she has supported his administration’s positions, little changed since the Bush administration, on the use of military force against Al Qaeda, the habeas corpus rights of military detainees and the state secrets privilege. (In 2005, however, she did oppose a Republican attempt to remove judicial review from the cases of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.)
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So just to be clear, you'd be against anyone Obama nominated simply because Obama nominated them.

 

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No, because Obama isn't even considering judges like Roberts and Alito who actually understand the constitution and he's shoving activists like Sotomayor and Kagan down america's throat.

 

And not to mention that 31 of Kagans hires at Harvard were white. Imagine if Roberts/Alito had done the same? Im sure the mainstream media would have been all over it.

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:)

 

We seem to do well enough with judges in lower courts running for election. Why not the SC? AS it is, they reign in virtual fiefdoms for as long as they like. At least slap term limits on them...oh wait, you can't. They'll just overturn the idea.

 

Judges running for election is a good idea? Are you serious?

 

Gaaaah!

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No, because Obama isn't even considering judges like Roberts and Alito who actually understand the constitution and he's shoving activists like Sotomayor and Kagan down america's throat.

 

And not to mention that 31 of Kagans hires at Harvard were white. Imagine if Roberts/Alito had done the same? Im sure the mainstream media would have been all over it.

 

Why would we be surprised that Obama is making these selections? When you look at how he's governed, it's easy to see that his comments over the last 10 years about social and economic justice were not just passing comments. This is who he is to the core. The cries of marxist and socialist tendencies are well founded.

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No, because Obama isn't even considering judges like Roberts and Alito who actually understand the constitution and he's shoving activists like Sotomayor and Kagan down america's throat.

 

And not to mention that 31 of Kagans hires at Harvard were white. Imagine if Roberts/Alito had done the same? Im sure the mainstream media would have been all over it.

 

She's an activist justice? You base this on...? What she's proven is that she's one of the brightest legal minds in the US--just like Roberts was when he was voted in. And frankly, there are activist judges on the right and left.

 

We're still waiting for a second reason why you don't like her. So far, you're single reason for why she's "disgusting" is that she defends gay rights on a college campus! What a reason.

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No, because Obama isn't even considering judges like Roberts and Alito who actually understand the constitution and he's shoving activists like Sotomayor and Kagan down america's throat.

 

And not to mention that 31 of Kagans hires at Harvard were white. Imagine if Roberts/Alito had done the same? Im sure the mainstream media would have been all over it.

 

Can you explain how Roberts and Alito "understand the Constitution" while Sotomayor and Kagan don't?

 

 

 

 

What am I asking? Of course you can't. You don't even understand the Constitution yourself. :)

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