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posted by takyon on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the elections-have-long-term-consequences dept.

Covered pretty much everywhere (front page of CNN/FOX/younameit).

With the main swing vote in the U.S. Supreme Court leaving, and a replacement nominated by President Trump, the right wing of the court should become clearly dominant, allowing Roe v. Wade opponents, and other right-wing causes, a new chance at victory.

takyon: SCOTUSblog has a round-up of coverage:

Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement today, effective July 31, 2018. Amy Howe covered the news for this blog; her coverage first appeared at Howe on the Court. Other early coverage comes from Richard Wolf of USA Today, Michael D. Shear of The New York Times; Bill Mears of Fox News; Robert Barnes of The Washington Post; Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire.News; Nina Totenberg of NPR; Lawrence Hurley of Reuters; Greg Stohr of Bloomberg; and Pete Williams of NBC News. Analysis of Justice Kennedy's legacy comes from Noah Feldman of Bloomberg; Wolf of USA Today; Mears of Fox News; and Reuters staff. Coverage of the reaction from Congress and the President comes from Carl Hulse of The New York Times; Alex Pappas and Mears of Fox News; Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post; and Alex Seitz-Wald and Rebecca Shabad of NBC News. Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg has a piece looking at potential replacements for Kennedy.

Early commentary comes from Jill Lawrence for USA Today; Bill Blum in The Progressive; Emily Bazelon for The New York Times; Elizabeth Slattery for The Daily Signal; Garrett Epps for The Atlantic; Richard Hasen for Slate; Ian Millhiser of Think Progress; and Joshua Matz for The Washington Post. Another piece in the Post comes from Philip Bump, who focuses on control of the Senate. More commentary comes from Scott Lemieux for NBC News and Matt Ford for The New Republic. Andrew Cohen writes for TNR, and he also has a piece in Rolling Stone. Commentary from Vox comes from Dylan Matthews, Andrew Prokop and Matt Yglesias. Pieklo and Imani Gandy released an emergency podcast reacting to the news. Various law professors give their analysis for Stanford Law School Blog.

Anthony Kennedy was sworn in on February 18, 1988.


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  • (Score: -1, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:04AM (8 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:04AM (#699612)

    Precedents are bad for SCOTUS, they are the ultimate authority and should not be bound by past poor decision making. Fetishism over precedent is, one will note, not something Progs worry in the slightest about. Conservatism does because it is devoted to preserving past Progressive victories and the media is all too happy to rub their noses in their 'duty' to cuck.. As a Reactionary I want those past victories smashed into rubble.

    Precedents are much more admirable in a lower court, especially precedent established by SCOTUS. They are supposed to take direction from their superiors, each level obeying the rules and precedent laid down by those above them, Nice orderly, structured society. Peaceful. Uneventful. The courts quietly efficient. Occasionally, as would happen if a supermajority of strict constructionalists take the court it would be appropriate to reexamine the assumptions that went into those past precedents and re-litigate some of them to correct past error and injustice.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:18AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:18AM (#699617) Journal

    Precedents are bad for SCOTUS,

    (original context for the question: "a whole bunch of lower courts have ruled in inconsistent ways". But anyhow, I see it addressed in the second part of your reply)

    Precedents are bad for SCOTUS, they are the ultimate authority and should not be bound by past poor decision making.

    Hang on... who actually decides what past decision were poor?
    Or is it this a judgment to be made depending on the (politically based) nomination of the judges?

    Precedents are much more admirable in a lower court, especially precedent established by SCOTUS.

    Now, if SCOTUS is free to change its mind at a whim, where does this leave your "be utterly predictable and one could make plans with a reasonable certainty as to what the courts would and would not be deciding." for the case of lower courts?

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  • (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:39AM (6 children)

    by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:39AM (#699715) Journal

    Nice orderly, structured society. Peaceful. Uneventful.

    Ah, yes! If only we could go back to 1953! A simpler time, that was!

    For simpler minds.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:48PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:48PM (#699794)

      Most of the simplest minds I've witnessed as of late are the angry millennials howling at the moon over they know not what. Egged on by the Maxine Waters types who are even more simple minded; they have all had a very bad week. Normally I would be filled with schadenfreude, but they've been kicked in the sack so many times this week, that even I'm beginning to feel sorry for them. To top things off, their media mouthpieces are now admitting that their big blue wave could be nothing more than a big blue wish.

      The Stormy tempest-in-a-teapot sputtered out when it was revealed that her needs-more-attention-than-a-school-girl attorney was a sleaze. Even the hysterical media has been forced to recognize that the FBI is filled with political partisans and liars. - Excuse me, people with lack of candor - The FBI is eating its own at this point. The new little darling of the media, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, despite the fact she hasn't even faced the mid-term election yet, has already been coronated by the MSM a la Clinton and is spouting off that ICE is running "black" sites. The crazy is incredible and the simple minded left are lapping it up.

      The left's dire predictions after Trump's election of World War III and martial law have been answered with a booming economy and record low unemployment. It's hard to run on a platform with a single principle of I hate Trump and every time the left doubles down on the crazy, they energize the opposition. It's delicious.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:19PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:19PM (#699834)

        ICE is running "black" sites.

        I thought it was black and white, with a little hispanic thrown in for flavoring.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:52PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:52PM (#699934)

        You do realize you just outed yourself as a hate mongering piece of crap right? Backed up by bullshit lies, you are the mechanical bull the GOP is letting every corporation get a free ride on and by the time you realize how badly you've been fucked you'll be living in the scrap yard.

        Dumbass conservatives fueled solely by hate, dropping all your "morality" for the chance to inflict pain. You ARE the horsemen of the apocalypse and the irony is 100% lost on you.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:01PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:01PM (#699938)

          This loser is undergoing a meltdown

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:48PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:48PM (#699950)

          you are the mechanical bull the GOP is letting every corporation get a free ride on and by the time you realize how badly you've been fucked you'll be living in the scrap yard.

          Lefty liberals never pass up an opportunity to inject homosexuality into politics.

          dropping all your "morality" for the chance to inflict pain.

          I never claimed to be a model of morality and the only pain you suffer is self inflicted. You would understand that if you weren't so blinded by uncontrollable and misplaced fury. In the mean time please rage and howl at the moon. Kick out a few more public servants from restaurants. Send threats to innocent ICE agents and their families. Every event helps increase the voter turnout to suppress schizophrenic and hysterical policies proposed by the left.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @05:44PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @05:44PM (#700295)

            And you murderous bastards are gunning down journalists for no reason. Yup, keep trying to ride the high road. Amusing how you get all bent out of shape when someone rants the way you do.

            Not a surprise, just more projection and hypocrisy from a hateful pile of shit. You, you are the hate filled pile of shit, just to be extra clear.