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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 1:10amSanction this postReply
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Mr. Machan,

I have to disagree with you on a couple of points.

"what's the fuss about who gets on the Court?"
As a citizen of this country, the 'fuss' to me is that the judicial branch is the only one that comes close to having a legitimate right in the political process. As the highest court in the land, they do hold the power to make things right, or wrong. They are the ones that we as citizens can go to when we have grievances - and theoretically get a fair shake at the issue.

I mean, look at Larry Flint.

Secondly, I know that your article had more to do with the power struggle between the two evils. Knowing this, the last paragraph really was a non-sequitur. In this I mean that you're right about the legislature, but the courts are the only ones left who even give a shit about the constitution any more. Furthermore, they are the only ones who even attempt to keep alive the spirit of the constitution, it's founding fathers, and all of the things that still might make this country useful and worth living in.

Idoni



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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 4:19amSanction this postReply
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Sadly I see no evidence of the courts caring much about "the lost Constitution." That's the one Randy Barnett is discussing in his Restoring the Lost Constitution (Princeton UP, 2004) and it doesn't look a thing like what these folks on the court today think it does.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 8:33pmSanction this postReply
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If the stasis of a turf fight is a major problem, Alito is the judge from hell, acting as a partisan political hack as alluded to here in promoting classic Blue-versus-Green factionalism -- in a pretense of opposing it!


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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 11:00pmSanction this postReply
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classic Blue-versus-Green factionalism
No, purple!

(let's see who gets the reference :) )

Sarah

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 11:08amSanction this postReply
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Sappho for President?

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Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 7:37amSanction this postReply
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No, purple!

Gee, I thought "stasis" was the funny part.


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