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Jun. 13th, 2008 01:25 am
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Justice Scalia: Craven, power-worshipping scoundrel

The story isn't that the court affirmed habeas corpus and the rule of law yesterday; it's that it did so by a 5-4 margin. Let it not be forgotten.
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Date: 2008-06-13 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nightswatch.livejournal.com
My favorite part is where the Supreme Court makes fighting "the war" harder. Good times!
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Date: 2008-06-13 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] salieri.livejournal.com
Americans will DIE because of this decision!
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Date: 2008-06-13 05:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boopsce.livejournal.com
Hope McCain doesn't get elected. Stevens is 88. Ginsburg is 75.
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Date: 2008-06-13 05:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadrunnertwice
Yeah. Not okay with a 6-3 All Authoritarian Supreme Court.
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Date: 2008-06-13 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zizz.livejournal.com
hey, i have that song! hi nick!
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Date: 2008-06-13 06:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadrunnertwice
Hi Elizabeth!
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Date: 2008-06-15 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyladia.livejournal.com
Sometimes I'm more scared that I live in America.


So what exactly do you mean by "let it not be forgotten"?
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Date: 2008-06-19 07:55 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadrunnertwice
...It means, don't forget about it? I'm saying, this is a natural consequence of allowing people with authoritarian tendencies into high office: their unelected appointees are going to be fascists too, and will have their masters' backs. Everything echoes, everything is connected, one fuck-up will kill your chances to stop a dozen more fuck-ups, and the price of freedom really is constant vigilance.

We got stupidly lucky here -- like Jerry said above, if Stevens had happened to kick out in the last year or two, the Supreme Fucking Court would have said that having a Gulag is totally constitutional. The fact that this decision wasn't 9-0 is a national shame.
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Date: 2008-06-20 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyladia.livejournal.com
...Thanks for that. I guess it's fair, I could have asked in a better way.

But you answered what I was asking, which was which "side" you were on (mostly because of the first two posts and I can never tell if someone is sarcastic).

And what I meant by being scared of America is that the Supreme Court being able to be Supreme is nothing new, and has always been scary. I read http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/weekinreview/15mahler.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=weekinreview and past Justices have said some pretty scary things like:

“When a nation is at war,” [Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes] said, “many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that no court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.”

We're stupidly lucky all the time. And some of us are just stupid.

He really wrote "shudder!"?

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