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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
host, did you forget about ginsburg, stevens, souter, and breyer? they have also been very instrumental in relieving us irresponsible children of our rights.
I hate that you can't see that it's not just conservatives, but I can't call you partisan and not have you rail against it.
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Justice DK.....I think if you take the time to look, you will find that Ginsburg, Stevens, Souter and Breyer have often ruled in favor of individual rights over corporate or government rights (their most notable failure IMO, was the Connecticut eminent domain case)
Most notable was last year's decision that ruled
Bush's military tribunals were illegal under both military justice law and the Geneva Conventions. (ie individual rights over government rights)
And, in Congress, at least there still are a few Democrats (Kucinich, Dodd, Biben, et al) who have proposed legislation (National Security with Justice Act) to repeal parts of the Patriot Act...or to restore habeas (Restore the Constitution Act)...or to amend FISA to further limit warrantless wiretaps.