Dead men have no say in SCOTUS rulings. They have to be alive when the ruling is issued, as it should be.
for cases scalia heard, could he already voted on them?
or since he died b4 the results were released, his vote is null and void. (god, I hope this is the case!)
Right, so what I said - except you want someone who's center left instead of centrist.He won't nominate as liberal a justice as he did before, because that will be tactically stupid. He will nominate a center-left person. He can't get a true liberal appointed now but he can replace an ultra-ultra right wing justice with a centrist one. That's still a win.
Right, so what I said - except you want someone who's center left instead of centrist.
If I understand you correctly, cases where Scalia was involved with hearing the case at oral arguments but a ruling has not yet been issued mean Scalia's vote won't end up counting. (Basically among other things behind the way this works is at least theoretically Scalia could have changed his mind in the time before the opinion was issued especially as he saw how the opinion ended up being written.)for cases scalia heard, how many has he voted for so far?
or none?
So why is it only Obama shouldn't do anything partisan and self serving, but with republicans its ok? I didn't see Bush hold back on nominating Alito and Roberts.
It's kind of crazy to realize how big of an impact this one man had.
Yeehawdist lost the tarp man and now this
{Rant snipped out} It's really no surprise that America is the laughingstock of the western world, especially when it comes to the concept of democracy.
The rest of the world only matters if you feel the US has something to prove, it doesn't.
What you call the "concept of democracy" is the fundamentally flawed belief that you can increase a sum by adding zeros.
Alito and Roberts were confirmed. Clearly the political situation then wasn't the same as now. If you have a time machine we can go back and debate it. They're conservative, Obama appointed two liberals. 2:2
I'm not particularly impressed with Sotomayor, but balance needs to be preserved. Bad things happen when it isn't.
Right, so what I said - except you want someone who's center left instead of centrist.
GOP still is and will be until it's inevitable demise, the party of Nixon. Once you go down the path of the Southern Strategy and become a party of angry old white men, how do you survive when the country's demographics shift? Gerrymandering, obstruction, voter suppression, can delay the inevitable, hence the need for a SCOTUS that thinks that we don't need the Voting Rights Act anymore. But long term it's a loser. And once it swings the other way, it's going to wipe out the Republican party for good. In California we were told how our state was fiscally doomed and ungovernable, but funny thing happened when we took away the Republican's power to obstruct by giving Democrats a super-majority. All these previously intractable problems all of the sudden started getting solved.
Its actually amazing how well the California dems in office have counterbalanced themselves and now we have a very well functioning gov in cali.
That's what happens if you keep Republicans from positions of importance.
I'm not particularly impressed with Sotomayor, but balance needs to be preserved. Bad things happen when it isn't.
In California we were told how our state was fiscally doomed and ungovernable, but funny thing happened when we took away the Republican's power to obstruct by giving Democrats a super-majority. All these previously intractable problems all of the sudden started getting solved.
And nominating a Supreme Court Justice, as is his Constitutional duty, would be "doing something blatantly partisan and self serving"?
He should nominate Ted Cruz and just watch heads explode and anyone who asks, he can just answer: Lame duck this, bitches.
They threw Republicans out so they don't even have a minority needed to block.whoa.. what?
so did the dems kill that stupid law that required 60% approval for a bill to be law?
(thus the reason why CA was so F'ed up)
Who cares? Honestly, no one I know does.also, CA became fiscally sound because they raised the state income tax to 10%!
it was supposed to be temporary.
was it extended? how long?
I'm going to laugh if the GOP gets their wish, and then President Clinton nominates Obama.