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I'm sorry we have established the SCOTUS is politically biased in it's determination of cases? because you've not shown or demonstrated that at all.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
A pattern of the Democrats picking Democratically biased justices and the Republicans picking Republican biased justices? That sounds an awful lot like the bias I've been talking about since post #13, when I mentioned that Hillary would be another partisan justice.
In the scenario presented by the OP, Obama (Dem) nominates Hillary and she's confirmed by what is almost certainly going to be a Democratic congress. Hillary Clinton, as I hope we all know, has been very liberal in both her legal and political career. Should that scenario actually play out, we'd simply be placing a Democratic yes-man on the bench, simply maintaining the status quo, which we've established is a politically biased SCOTUS.
Instead we should be nominating people who are clearly going to put justice above partisan politics. Those are the people that should be on the bench, be that the bench of the SCOTUS or even a local bench. That's the point I've been trying to make all along.
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even my simple socialstudieshelp.com example showed how it's not partisan politics. You keep spouting it, but not showing how it is that besides the labels the people are given versus the ACTIONS that the people take.
further, your entire political allegiances has been completely undermined by your own post:
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Originally Posted by Willravel
- John Paul Stevens: Democrat, but Republican when nominated and confirmed by Republicans (call it the Stevens "gotcha")
- David Souter: Democract, but Republican/Centrist when nominated by Republican president George Bush 1, and confirmed by Democratic Congress
- Clarence Thomas: Republican, nominated by Republican president George Bush 1, and confirmed by Democratic Congress.
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You've still not established how they are partisan.
Seriously, I feel a Willravel "Agree to disagree" coming up...
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 05-29-2008 at 10:48 AM..
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