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On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:30:01 -0400, "David M. Nieporent"
<nieporen@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:

>Merlin Dorfman wrote:
>> In ca.general Frank White <fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com> wrote:
>
>>>I have said before.  I will say again.  Souter and his bunch are
>>>not liberals, they are right wingers.  And it is a measure of just
>>>how extreme this current Supreme Court has become that they are
>>>considered the left wing of the Court.  And just how ignorant of
>>>history those of you are who don't see this.
>
>>      You are exactly "right," pardon the pun.  This court has moved
>> the interpretation of the law far to the right, from things like
>> denying states the right to keep guns off school campuses to
>> reversing progress on civil rights, and many other areas.
>
>You're mistaken.  None of that happened.  The Supreme Court made *no* ruling 
>on what states can do about guns on school campuses.  The Supreme Court 
>ruled that the *federal* government can't legislate about local issues such 
>as that.  (And even that's an exaggeration; all they actually said was that 
>Congress can't do so except as part of a comprehensive regulatory scheme.)
>
>I don't know what "reversing progress on civil rights" means; it's vague and 
>unclear.
>
>But I do know that this "far to the right" Supreme Court has, in recent years,
>
>   (a) upheld Roe,
>   (b) upheld Miranda,
>   (c) upheld race preferences in college admissions,
>   (d) overturned Bowers,
>   (e) found for New London in Kelo,
>   (f) found for the federal government in Raich,
>   (g) struck down the death penalty for the retarded,
>   (h) struck down the death penalty for juveniles,
>   (i) upheld the FMLA as applied to states.
>   (j) upheld BCRA
>
>Hell, it's hard to find anything conservative that they've done.


Indeed. Well stated.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont  kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you
for torturing the cat."  Gunner