Comments on: Court Watch

By: Joel Thomas

Joel Thomas — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:21:27 +0000

If Roberts sees a “right to privacy” in the Constitution, well then “I’m just pleased as punch.” (An old Hubert Humphrey frequent saying, which I can easily recall, having one foot in the grave.)

By: wahoofive

wahoofive — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:48:41 +0000

Or here's another one: Can a US citizen be imprisoned indefinitely just because the president wants it?

By: Mean Dean

Mean Dean — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:51:19 +0000

Joel : 56 is old? Guess I’ve got one foot in the grave.
Guess that makes me older than dirt!

By: wahoofive

wahoofive — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:33:58 +0000

If the Dems spend the whole time trying to get Roberts to commit to a position on Roe v Wade, they’re wasting everybody’s time. He’s going to have a noncommital response prepared. There must be SOME other issue they can ask him about. How about federal govt vs states’ rights? How about treatment of detainees overseas? How about what little is left of the fourth amendment? How about “takings” and environmental protection? How about vouchers for religious schools? He probably won’t give straight answers on any of those, either, but at least there’s something there to talk, as opposed to shout, about.

By: Joel Thomas

Joel Thomas — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:41:05 +0000

Well, Josh, you are, relatively speaking, a snot-nosed kid for your age.
56 is old? Guess I’ve got one foot in the grave.
I think this helps explain why there is so much generation difference in thinking.
Personally, I don’t know that anyone needs to serve on the court for more than 15 years.
Someone who retired at 71 would leave the bench much younger than many justices have.
Democrats certainly claimed that Reagan was too old to become president at age 69. But he always seemed younger than Walter Mondale.

By: A Steve

A Steve — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:33:57 +0000

Too old? Blech. Regardless of my opinion of someone’s politics, I’m annoyed at the modern trend of going with younger and younger appointments. Whatever happened to going with older, respected jurists?
Cardozo: 62
Rehnquist: 57
Holmes: 61
Sure, your appointment is on the Court longer, but Cardozo had more impact in 10 years than most justices have in 30.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:30:48 +0000

If I were the Dems and wanted to pressure Bush to release documents about Roberts he doesn’t want to cough up for some reason, I think I’d start hammering away on Bush’s nomination of “Brownie” as FEMA director.
“We now know that we can’t rely on Mr. Bush’s judgment with respect to nominations and we can’t rely on his vetting process to be accurate.”
Or some such.