Rehnquist

[judecorp]

Crap! Rehnquist died tonight!

Bad news abounds.

Comments

[binkiegirl.livejournal.com]

F**k

[krazyleesa.livejournal.com]

I second that. :/

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

Pat Robertson prayed for more openings on the Supreme Court. Given that a seat on the Court is a lifetime appointment, it seems that this is just the sort of thing he had in mind.

I may vomit.

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

You know what this means -- Pat Robertson obviously called for the assassination of the Chief Justice; when faced with near-universal scorn, he realized you can't send minions for your dirty-work and _strangled Rehnquist to death!_ Then, cleverly, he left cancer's fingerprints everywhere.

That's my theory, anyway.

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's Rehnquist, so any new far-right appointment is gonna be a wash anyway. It'll probably be worse that his replacement as Chief Justice will likely be Scalia.

Right now I'm just rejoicing at the passing of another conservative blowhard.

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

Robertson prayed for more openings on the Supreme Court. He was, in essence, asking God to kill people.

That's not nice.

Then again, neither is rejoicing over the death of another human being, regardless of their ideology.

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

I never claimed that my sentiment was a nice one.

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

I never said you did.

[jadefu.livejournal.com]

Ditto on that.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Yes. Of the three-man true-conservative wing, he was the one that I most trusted to not be dogmatic in his rulings. He seems like the sort of person who would make for a great teacher, even if I didn't agree with him. It's because Roberts clerked for him that I'm not entirely against Roberts (though I know from some of what he's written, Roberts is probably not a good choice for those of us who hold more liberal views).

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Roberts is being nominated for Chief Justice. :(

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'll join you in the bathroom.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

He's so devious, that Pat Robertson.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that Bush wants to nominate Roberts as Chief Justice.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd heard that speculation yesterday, too. It's a really lazy choice by Bush. He says that he wants a CJ confirmed by the opening of the term, but that's BS. He didn't want to put the work into vetting someone for CJ, so he throws the already nominated there, since O'Connor said she'll still on until there is a replacement for her. Now Bush can wait as long as he likes before vetting another candidate. It's total BS, and it's just more of a demonstration about how lazy this president is. I'll probably be posting in GreenKat about this (rather than New Orleans) sometime this evening.

[smurfbrother.livejournal.com]

Just FYI, about the only 2 powers that the CJ has are to assign the writer of the Court's majority opinion (if the CJ is on the majority) in a case, and to preside over the impeachment trial of the President or VP.

[smurfbrother.livejournal.com]

I think Roberts as CJ is good for Dems and probably not so smart for Bush. Roberts' nomination is sure to be confirmed (as it probably ought to be), and an easy confirmation preserves political capital for the Dems to sandbag the _next_ nominee, who I think will be a doozy.