US Supreme Court Vacancy

[Conscript]

One of the justices, O'Connor, has tendered her resignation from the highest court in America.

Who will replace her?

The Supreme Court is very important to many activists because it is the Supreme Court which in a 1973 decision legalized abortion. A power shift on the Supreme Court could lead the Court to reverse its own decision and make abortion illegal again (this is why the religious conservatives and pro-abortion activists alike fight so hard for or against Supreme Court nominees).

Let's see who our great President appoints and let's see the liberals head for Canada again upon that nominee's confirmation. Unless of course the person is a moderate, in which case the entire conservative Christian movement will have felt betrayed by the Republican Party and Bush.

So what do you think will happen?

I am not sure personally nor do I have any credible reports of good possibilities, but I would like to see a more conservative Supreme Court that INTERPRETS the law not writes it as liberal activist judges do.

[Robert]

I want to see a young supreme court judge who values the technology era we live in that will actually know what DNS, Spam and all these other terms actually mean first hand.

[Conscript]

I agree! As the years go by cases involving technology including privacy rights online and free online speech will come up and it would be nice to have someone who is aware of how this stuff works make informed decisions.

[pdrucker]

When they legalized abortion they were interpreting the law. They felt that life begins at birth and thats how they interpreted it. Writing a law would be saying that abortion should be illegal. Thnk about the word liberal vs. the word conservative. Liberal means free (america=hopefully a free country), conservative means holding back, not progressing, something i'm sure the founding fathers would be against.

[Conscript]

Actually they interpreted the part of the constitution that says people have a right to privacy (written as to protect people from searches by the government) as to mean that its okay to have an abortion. Very wide stretch of imagination and bad law.

The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves everytime a liberal justice says the constitution is a "living document"

[niv]

As long as the middle ground isn't redefined, it's all good. We don't need someone that will push idiotic right-wing Christian movement dogmas or moronic one-line Ann Arbor style liberalism. Someone that has sense, like Clarence Thomas.

The law isn't meant to be dynamic. It's supposed to be as static as a DNS resolver's IP; we don't need jerks from either side adding on stupid crap.

[pdrucker]

Mahoro, i like that. I'd perfer a moderate in the supreme court because of the job description. I want someone who can make up their own mind and not be persuaded by liberals like me or conservatives like conscript. it would make sense.