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"You just have to pick the best person you can under these circumstances, as the appointing authority must do. And it’s an important position and one we care about as a nation, as a people," O’Connor said. "And I wish the President well as he makes choices and goes down that line. It’s hard."
Mitch?
Chuck?
Hello?
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There is a movement to simply reactivate SDO as an interim for the SCOTUS. Ugh.
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Aaaaaaand… O’Connor is now officially a traitorous RINO.
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Fox: This old haggard liberal recluse is out of touch. She doesn’t understand Party comes before country or constitution.
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“You just have to pick the best person you can under these circumstances, as the appointing authority must do. And it’s an important position and one we care about as a nation, as a people,” O’Connor said. "And I wish the President well as he makes choices and goes down that line. It’s hard."
Strong and wise words coming from someone who served the nation for many years. I didn’t often agree with her decisions, but I’ve always had a solid respect for retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
edited for spelling. I hate auto-correct.
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It is well known that Sandra Day O’Connor is a socialist who’s refused to release her birth certificate (long-form version). I have it on good authority that she was born in Kenya, and have asked her fellow Arizonan Joe Arpaio to investigate.
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I’m sure it won’t be too much longer before some Republican calls her a bimbo whose opinion doesn’t matter.
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She was part of the gang of five who annointed GWB President and then high-tailed it out the back door with the rest of them so they wouldn’t have to explain themselves!
Ugh! Is right --along with hell no!
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They’ve been saying that for years, since she never ran full bore on overturning Roe v. Wade.
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“I don’t agree (with Republicans,)” O’Connor said, “We need somebody in there to do the job and just get on with it.”
That would be REAGAN APPOINTEE Sandra Day O’Connor,
repudiating Republican obstruction.
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The first woman on the Supreme Court just added more fuel to feed the flames as the Republicans’ feet are held to the fire to shame them into following the Constitution.
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Exactly, too little, too late Sandra.
You made the bed and we all have to sleep in it too.
She’s already publicly expressed her laments and done some amount of self flagellation. This is her trying to do penance but I can’t say I’m really moved by it now that her opinion holds no consequence.
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I have immense amount of respect for her, but I get frustrated when she says that if she knew who GWB would nominate she wouldn’t have retired. He’d been in office five years. What about that surprised her? The decision to retire was far worse than Bush v. Gore in my eyes. Once that decision was made, she compounded it.
I understand why she retired, her husband was sick. Let’s not compound it by acting like she just had no idea how that would turn out.
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I 100% disagreed with her and the others with regards to the Bush v. Gore decision. They were wrong then and will always be tainted with the ugly, permanent stain the Bush-Cheney era brought upon America and the world. I disagreed with some of O’Connor’s other decisions and arguments. Many people mistakenly give her credit for ridding the nation of those horrid sodomy laws – when, in fact, she only voted to strike down Texas’s version of it because it was applied to gay people only and not straight people. She argued that each state should have the right to deal with it on their own terms but only if they applied it evenly across the board. She dissented on the decision to strike down all sodomy laws (which, in effect, set the stage for lgbt equality in so many other ways). Sandra Day O’Connor was horribly wrong on that issue – not a friend at all to us.
That said, I do have some grudging respect for her in the way she walked the court to the left on other issues, mostly with regards to abortion rights. I am just as much a pro-choice man as I am for lgbt equality. I see them as in almost every way intermingled. That is one reason I couldn’t quite understand O’Connor’s decisions in cases involving gays. It was obvious she wasn’t what I would call a hater–like that asshat Antonin Scalia. I can only chalk it up to her age and being totally oblivious to the need for lgbt equality based upon us being a thread in the human tapestry instead of just a U.S. citizen deserving of only the barest minimum of what the U.S. Constitution says on paper. She lacked empathy – like so many Republicans do. Whether she still does or not, who knows … but I cannot deny I have a bit of respect – and that I do believe she deserves it.
(I hope this all makes a little sense).
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Well, Cat, you’re a better man than I am ;^D
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Dubya: Constitution is just a reference. It can be followed if needed, especially when it goes in your favor. Nothing really happens if you dont follow it. All my successful policies (torture, spying on citizens) were against the constitution, but they were successful and kept us safe.
I wonder if she has finally opened her eyes and see what the “modern conservative movement” actually is?
LOL. (Sighs) Thank you. Remember, it’s only a grudging respect. I shouldn’t have said “solid.” It is there, but it’s best described as grudging, minimal but fair due to her abortion rights decisions.
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Well, that interview didn’t go as planned!
The whole reason for this was because some morons suffering from the swamp fever gripping the right thought that Obama should make her Scalia’s replacement
Instead of just saying no…she told them the exact opposite of what they wanted to hear. Which was the perfectly obvious response anyone NOT suffering from fever expected.
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Conservatives are upping the degree by which they are seen by the world as sore losers to such incredibly ridiculous heights. Glad to hear yet another SCourt justice say enough with the partisan crap…do your duty.
There will be an appointment made and hearings held. The GOP can’t get around this no matter what the Far Right threatens them with. We have a Constitution and it will be followed…with or without these sore losers’ permission.
Life goes on no matter how many roadblocks conservative try to set up. This black Democratic president was elected by a vast majority. They expected him to appointed justices. He’s done it two time already. He will appoint another justice and that person will be given a hearing and a vote.
Time is not going to stand still any more than global warming.
All the ranting and raving and hand wringing by conservative big babies will not stop it. Republicans have to get over their Scarlett O’Hara hang ups. Rhett Butler has left the building and he’s not coming back.
Dap those tears of frustration away with a clean handkerchief and get on with the process . Once Scalia is laid to rest and the family has been given a reasonable mourning period, everyone must get back to the work of the living.
There will always be another election coming up. This is still a republic. The Senate can’t circumvent the will of the people without there being consequences at the polls.
It’s like McConnell senses he’s about to be dethroned and is going to stage another Cantor. We all saw how that worked out for Cantor. Obama was reelected and he wasn’t.
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