@marinelife Thanks. I figured someone would list all 5 conservative justices. I’m surprised there’s been no counter proposal to replace the 4 more liberal justices with cons.
@johnpowell Thanks for providing the rationale. I presume if that wasn’t what @marinelife thought, there would be a dissenting post by now.
<rant>I agree that decisions like Citizens United Vs. FEC are judicial activism, which conservatives claim to abhor when liberal justices do it, but stand up and salute when it supports their ideology—the constitution be damned. The idea that the Founders meant corporations when they said people in the 1st Amendment is utterly preposterous. Company licensing was, almost exclusively, a state issue. There was no Wall Street when the Bill of Rights was ratified. There were a few companies such as the Pony Express who were granted special license to do business across state lines. There were NO multinational corporations. The corporate structure did not exist. How the hell could the authors of the Bill of Rights really meant to give freedom of unlimited TV advertising to corporations when none of those concepts even existed in their time—and when they had just survived a brutal Revolutionary War largely inspired by their hatred of the one multinational “Corporation” that existed in their time, the British East India Company? </rant>
@Qingu I agree. It would probably be well to leave Roberts, Alito and Kennedy on the court as they are competent jurist and constitutional scholars and they provide some balance.
@ragingloli Strange answer.
@Aethelflaed Thanks.
@bkcunningham Have you read what Justice Ginzburg actually said, or just what the right-wing blogosphere and Fox talkers accused her of saying? Oh, never mind. I see a whole debate has erupted to that point. I don’t want to resurrect that now that the dust has settled.
As to Brett Kavanaugh, his confirmation to the DC Circuit was held up for three years due to concerns about his purely partisan activities. While he was eventually confirmed through a back-room deal to give Democrats a plum they wanted, I’d vigorously oppose elevating him to the nation’s highest court. It should not be an institution packed with partisans of either stripe.
@janbb Thank you.
@Dr_Lawrence OMG, Thank you. I sure as heck don’t want to wade back into that swamp.
@bkcunningham & @Qingu Thanks for returning to the topic. Much appreciated.