When you hear McCain and the Republicans cry about the Supreme Court...
By John Amato Sunday Jun 15, 2008 11:00am
...because they ruled against the Bush administration for the third time and said that Gitmo detainees do have habeas corpus privileges. Just remind them about the Bush v Gore decision.
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The decision in the Florida election case may be ranked as the single most corrupt decision in Supreme Court history, because it is the only one that I know of where the majority justices decided as they did because of the personal identity and political affiliation of the litigants. This was cheating, and a violation of the judicial oath.
Nuff said.
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It blows my mind that republicans still think the GOP is the party of morality; when there is such open corruption, how can anyone think that this is moral?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yLMpGPU8A
Why do I keep expecting them to high kick in fishnets, high-heels, and really frilly knickers?
With Republicans fighting the rule of law tooth and nail in the name of security, maybe it is time to INCARCERATE some of these Repubs. Then they will understand what we do to constitutional criminals.
Did I coin a new phrase?
Constitutional Criminals!!
We might have to build a new facility for the lot of them.
Today, turn towards St. Alban's in D.C. Turn towards Buffalo. Pay homage. Master John wants you to do so.
I think we should join our right wing brethren in taking the Supreme Court to task. In particular we should investigate the court's blatant judicial activism in the 2000 case Bush vs Gore!
At the risk of being repetitive, this country's in for a world of hurt if McShame wins.
Scalia=wanker off the millenia.
Cited no law OR fact is his dissent. Just red, raw-ass fear mongering. If there was ever any doubt about his views, this one lays them to rest.
Hey Scalia, "Just get over it, Asshole!"
Hey, Let's not be too hard on Scalia: He Does Believe in Habeas Corpse
I don't get this Scalia piece of shit. Instead of stand up for the rule of law and properly representing jurisprudence in America's name, this Supreme Court Justice breaks out the fucking fear card.
Never thought there would be a supreme court justice worse than Thomas.
Lesson learned: Never set the bar low enough. (pardon the pun).
Excuse me for sounding stupid....but isn't it possible for things to get worse and worse anyway ? Can I please have a serious answer. I mean aren't there these so-called Red states that would vote for McCain even if he were arrested for the same thing as that senator or congressman "Wide Stance". Even if McCain's campaign manager got nailed for the same thing as that fat politician in Fla. who said that he ran into a bathroom stall and locked himself in with a black guy accidentally because he was fleeing from a scary black guy in the park? I mean --what are they -Rednecks uhh, Christan farmers and factory workers that will vote for ANYBODY as long as they are white Christian Republican.
When you hear McCain and the Republicans cry about the Supreme Court…
It obviously means they did something right!
Is it November yet? Think they are crying now? Wait till the elections.
There's nothing wrong with SCOTUS that 4 or 5 consecutive Democratic administrations in a row can't fix.
And I so tired of GOPtards telling me what brilliant minds Scalia and Roberts have. What they have is a reading comprehension problem.
They are "activist judges" when the reich-wing disagree with the ruling.
They are "strict constitutionalists" when the reich-wing agree with the ruling.
Reich-wingers are simpleton twits.
empy @ 8:
And if he or any other rightwinger wants to bitch about this decision some more just tell them So?
Don't hear alot of crying bout that....but bringing up Gore just makes me sick so I never do.
We got months of this kind of entertainment to look forward to. "Bring em on"
Their worst decision was the one to wage a judicial coup and install a fascist in 2000.
Oh I remember now ! Wide Stance = Larry Craig. I mean he said what "The people of Iowa deserve a senator who can devote his full attention blah blah....
Then he decided not to resign while he continued to fight his conviction/ his own guilty plea. He' s still in power !.....but can you imagine a politician walking into a congress mens room just behind Larry Craig or Larry just happens to be right behind you. What if you gotta take a crap. I wonder if Larry Craig just masturbates now in the next stall without trying to turn tricks and ya' know run his hand along the bottom edge of the wall/partition.
Maybe he still does that when nobody else is in the mens room just to go back to the Good ol' days and remember what all that freedom was like. ...how wonderful it was.
I will never look at the Supreme Court the same way after the 2000 Supreme Court Judicial coup. Those who decided to select our President are drowning in blood along with the Bush administration. Partisan Partisan I don't care what the hell Scalia keeps repeating.
thank goodness for this most recent vote. But 5-4 what the hell is up with these judges? there job is to enforce the rule of law. Not re-make the laws.
How about reminding them that 7 of 9 justices are Republican appointees, for that matter, IIRC?
Karma's a bitch.
No comparison one affirmed legal standing the other a wet dream by thugs whom hate the law of the land. Read your constitution; elections and the way to resolve disputed elections was hammered out in section one and two of the constitution before any mention of the supreme court(section three). The founders expected a ruckus, in a disputed election, in the people's house not before weasels like thomas and scalia who were compromised by they or their family members benefitting from being employed by a bush organization. Look at the shithouse they created by not following the constitution. Impeachment is the least these two deserve. Exile seems better looking all the time ,just git um out of here.
Scalia is by all definition is a grease-ball. He thinks of himself as some kind of right wing talk radio gasbag like Limbaugh with a supreme court robe. I think he should be called on it as this degenerate republican conservative has made a mockery of a respectable branch of our government. With luck the dems on the tv shows can continue calling these gasbags out and should not allow Scalia the greaseball to get away with this crap (I have hopes that dems will continue to grow spines as they have as of late - Pat Buchanan and his racist Obama is too "exotic" comment for one...)
Scalia is the most partisan activist judge of the group and over the last 60 years. That is why he is reich-wing hero.
This clip has been posted before.
Not that I don't appreciate C&L and all the work you do to fill in the gaps left by the MSM, how about putting a date next to these clips so we don't waste time downloading it again to watch?
I sent this editorial letter to our local paper last week:
“The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today.” Well, it's eight years late, but still nice to hear Justice Scalia finally apologize for the disastrous Bush v. Gore decision of December 12, 2000 that gave George W. Bush the presidency.
Did they print it? Of course not.
Even with a STACKED Supreme Court ( 7 out of 9 current justices appointed by GOP Presidents), Repubicans STILL cannot convince the court that their draconian policies are what's best for America.
You cannot make this stuff up, the GOP is throuroughly rejected by their OWN minions.
The only way for the GOP to recover from this is to fold up shop and start over again. Maybe in the 2088 elections they can try again ?
empy @ 8:
i dont know if a supreme can be impeached...but scalia must go
he has proven time and again that the constitution means nothing...and his job is to uphold the constitution
and someone needs to explain to him that gitmo is not foreign soil
Simply put, the Reich Wing, and those that believe their drivel, are pissed because they now have to start treating terrorists like, you know, human beings. Their world is crumbling right before their very eyes and they don’t like it so they resort to lashing out and exposing their ignorance. Perhaps it’s time for an intervention. For their own good, of course.
Ya, well I'd suggest the Republican dimwits who cry "ideology!" at the SCOTUS read Scalia's dissent, and honestly tell me what the law/rhetoric ratio is.
Does Scalia even have the capacity to be embarrassed of himself anymore? I don't begrudge him his disagreement with the ruling, but surely he could write a dissent that is more "Harvard Law Review" than it is "New York Post." Christ.
Scalia should be impeached along with Roberts and Alito.
bush vs. gore
scalia........"i don't want to talk about it" wonder why
Roket @ 32:
You mean, suspected terrorists.
ThunderMonkey @ 24:
Thank goodness I'm a Stithaprajna.
ysbaddaden @ 3:
That at least would be preferable to two wet suits, a dildo and a gas mask.
Ron @ 34:
Being a partisan asshole unfortunately is not an impeachable offense.
I'm not sure why Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia, are so repulsed about applying habeas corpus to foreigners, but I do suspect when they meet in chambers they enjoy a liberal application of steak sauce to corpus delectibus.
Scalia is right. The courts are not competent to determine who is a terrorist. The only way to truly determine guilt is to submerge them in water. If they drown then they are innocent. If they float they are guilty.
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Hey Scalia, "Just get over it, Asshole!"
i dont know if a supreme can be impeached...but scalia must go
he has proven time and again that the constitution means nothing...and his job is to uphold the constitution
and someone needs to explain to him that gitmo is not foreign soil
Sure a Supreme Court Justice can be impeached - check out Samuel Chase - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase
Uncle Joe Hussein Mccarthy @ 31:
Any elected or appointed official of the federal government can be impeached. However you can't impeach them for being an asshole, even a fascist one. If you find an actual criminal wrongdoing and have evidence for it then you can start impeachment.
Impeachment is the same as an indictment. It's not a conviction. So you have to have some evidence to indict and even more to convict.
Personally I find Scalia as repugnant as he is incompetent to wear the robe. However, being repugnant and incompetent isn't something you can impeach for.
displaced @ 1:
Republicans and other conservatives lie openly and shamelessly to themselves in order to convince themselves that they are still in the right. They will swallow a lie of any size as long as it is convenient.
E in Md @ 43:
Failure to uphold oath or office and rule of law should be on the short list of impeachable offenses (if it isn't, why the hell take an oath? So God will punish you? I don't want to wait.).
If those four clowns with the dissenting position aren't "activist judges" who try to "rule from the bench", please explain how. Their view is the textbook definition of activist...And authoritarian...And fear mongering...And flat out wrong!
How does that opinion sit with Scalia's stance as a "Strict Constructionist" who takes the Constitution at it's literal meaning.
He flat out ignores the Constitution regularly.
E in Md @ 38:
I think it's against the laws of physics to try to dildo someone's rump while they're passig gas.
xoites defends Constitution @ 13:
I'll drink to that!!
i thought it was interesting that when mcBlame was asked about the habeus corpus case he really didn't have much to offer but with alittle time he had full throated response....he was told what to say
Come on folks...we should all know that the real reason they disagree with this decision is that if these detainees get to be heard in a court in the great ol USA, then the rest of the country will hear all about the torture they have received while labeled as enemy combatants...and it is the real driving force behind all and any attempts to prevent that from happening...it has nothing to do with anything else...think about it...
The ultimate example of "activist judges" has been 8 years of a mafia-like outlaw clique at the pinnacle of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Federal Government.
E in Md @ 43:
Actually, you don't need anything to impeach expect half the House and 2/3 of the Senate. I don't advise the Democrats to trump up some charges and run a kangaroo court to toss the asshole out on his ass, but they could. And there's no appeal.
Of course, the trick is that the Republicans control more than 1/3 of the Senate and even if Scalia got caught on video buggering some Senate page in the middle of the National Mall while selling PCP cut with Drano and shooting a cop, the Senate Republican would never vote to convict.
Roket @ 32:
That would be ALLEGED terrorists I think...Mr Bush.
interesting opinion
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/140608_a_mccain.htm
Need one ask why the right-wingers didn't complain when the court abolished laws against sodomy?
I knew the court was biased in Gore v. Bush, but I never realized how much! I didn't know until a year or two ago that Scalia and Cheney are good friends, plus other justices had family members working for the Bush enterprise at the time, yet no one recused themselves.
moniker @ 54:
They didn't complain 'cause they prefer to BUTT FUCK the nation nice and legal like...
JRoyale @ 15:
Actually it would only take one. Expand the court to 11 justices to balance our the right winger influence. That or impeach Scalia. I think he's made enough public statements to warrant at least investigation.
ThunderMonkey @ 24:
So is Scalia.
In the fall of 1951, the NY Giants battled the Brooklyn Dodgers for the NL pennant and as they did so, a young child sat transfixed by the radio as the play-by-play announcer called the game that held most New Yorkers rapt. In the Polo Grounds, Bobby Thomson was at the plate, Willie Mays was on deck and Ralph Branca (Italian-American) held the mound for the Dodgers. It was then that Thomson hit a walk-off homerun to win the pennant for the Giants to the ecstatic shouts of the announcer, "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" And while Thomson stroked the "the Shot Heard Round the World" in Manhattan, that same little boy was startled by the screech of tires outside of his Brooklyn apartment followed by a deafening crash. As he ran out his door onto the street below, he saw a taxi had crashed headlong into an elevated train abutment and from that mangled steel, shattered glass, and hissing, steaming wreck, emerged a burly cabbie who threw his cap upon the ground in disgust and spat, "You can never trust a goddamn Guinea!"
And thus my dear friends, if ever an ethnic stereotype could be justified and used accordingly, it is in this case most appropriate to be applied to Antonin Gregory Scalia.
scalia is a coward and lives in fear as does most republicans. they show none of the courage, insight or foresight of the founders of the U.S.
karl @ 53:
Well, I don't know if that qualifies as an opinion...It seemed objective and rational which is a big surprise since it comes to us on that wacko's site.
God given rights indeed - What lunacy.
Prey for the angels to enforce them...
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I say let McComplain say something about the Supreme Court's ruling!
I say let McComplain defend how refusing persons Habeas Corpus Rights is a good thing.
I say let McComplain extol the virtues of injustice and bias and secret courts.
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Isn't it a crying shame when the three branches of our government were totally "politically driven" and corrupt? Finally we have Congress back by a fingernail grip. Soon we will have the executive branch back and a stronger hold on Congress.
Then, we will have just one corrupt branch of government to deal with...the judicial...and only time will solve that stinking political mess.
What a sorry state this country has come to be in. God help America. We certainly need all the help we can get.
Doesn't Congress hold the right to define what the Courts are as a check on the judicial branch of the government? If so, why don't they just dissolve them all and start over? The courts are so full of loyal bushies and partisan flunkies we might as well make dissolving them an issue.
To those of you who believe the 'supreme court isn't that important'...
Take Political Science 101 or a Civics class and call us in the morning....
With a 6-3 or 7-2 majority the right wingnuts would turn this country into a kingdom of corporations, Democracy the grand institution would cease to exist....
Federalists = Turning the world into a members only country club, one nation at a time....
Absolutely right, and the proof of the pudding is that Scalia spoke to reporters on the Saturday BEFORE arguments were to begin (on Monday) and announced that the final vote would be 5-4 in Bush's favor. It wasn't a legal decision at all. It was a purely political one, because the upcoming arguments meant nothing.
Scalia and his brethren talk about the sanctity of Constitutional law only when it suits their political purposes. All that right-wing crap about judges who legislate from the bench has been exposed as empty rhetoric.
Technically, since the supreme court interfered with the election process in 2000 and the actions of the bush administration since 2001 has been of a organized terrorist organization, those on the supreme court could be tried as enablers of global terrorism. Their votes on giving the presidency to bush would be their only defense. But that entire discussion would have to be based on whether the rule of law and justice exists anywhere anymore.
all hail the hypno toad @ 64:
Congress cannot dissolve the Supreme Court.
It could, theoretically, dissolve all of the lower courts.
displaced @ 1:
To Republicans, morality means only the following:
Thou shalt claim to be a believing Christian.
Thou shalt not openly support gay people or their rights.
Batocchio @ 23:
Nothing that putting six Dem leaning judges onto the SCOTUS in one go wont cure.
Zenrage @ 44:
and cheap too, for a mere $20 down in Florida.
Minneapolis street life are going to be busy busy busy come september.
The picture I have of the court after the 2000 debacle/decision has all five Justices giving us the finger.That`s been going on for too long.
This latest decision restores habeus corpus and dignity to all Americans.Seems to me there is still hope.
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Yep, it was the most corrupt decision. And liberals sat there and took it... because they had more important things to do, like shop, hang out with their friends and look at porn. Give yourselves a big hand.
You just sit there and take it, over and over.
How odd that Republicans repeat the mantra of spreading Democracy and justice throughout the world and yet when given the chance to actually demonstrate to the world what that would look like complain about the decision.
empy@8: Scalia cited no law OR fact is his dissent. Just red, raw-ass fear mongering.
-and Scalia understands fear given he installed a criminally negligent (p)Resident who let the attacks of 9/11 & Anthrax happen on his watch and allowed WMD and WMD-know how to sprout like daisies in the Middle East.
I Like Pie@41 Says:
The only way to truly determine guilt is to submerge them in water. If they drown then they are innocent. If they float they are guilty.
-aka "aqualum indicae" or trial by water. This was standard justice before Habeas Corpus was introduced in the Magna Carta about a thousand years ago. Perfect for Bush and his band of irrational religious nuts.
ysbaddaden@46 it’s against the laws of physics to try to dildo someone’s rump while they’re passig gas.
-with wet suits they may be in the water. In which case doing so may save someone's life by increasing their buoyancy.
President Bush says he does not have to agree with this close decision and Senator McCain says we must focus on the dissenting opinion.
Had President Clinton shared their disregard for 5-4 Supreme Court decisions and the Judicial Branch, the Florida votes would be counted and George Bush would be running his companies, rather our country and world, into the ground. And two-term President Gore would be endorsing Obama in Michigan Mon. eve.
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