Souter To Retire from USSC.

[Berkut]

We need someone who understand how real law enforcement in America works, and who will get tough on the darkies and such.

I think Sheriff Joe would be an excellent candidate.

[Fate]

Joe's quite busy at the  moment. Perhaps Madame Justice Palin?   

[Berkut]

Joe's quite busy at the  moment. Perhaps Madame Justice Palin?  

Really, it is the least Obama can do considering she threw the election to him!

[Sheilbh]

Really, it is the least Obama can do considering she threw the election to him!

I had hopes for her.  I thought if she worked hard re-establishing her reformist credentials, brushed up on some national policy and just occassionally did a media show every now and then (to remind people she existed) that she'd be quite a plausible and attractive campaign.  That's not the strategy she's taken.  It seems like she's looked for every opportunity to appear mad and taken it

[Barrister]

Really, it is the least Obama can do considering she threw the election to him!

I had hopes for her.  I thought if she worked hard re-establishing her reformist credentials, brushed up on some national policy and just occassionally did a media show every now and then (to remind people she existed) that she'd be quite a plausible and attractive campaign.  That's not the strategy she's taken.  It seems like she's looked for every opportunity to appear mad and taken it

How do you figure?

We get Alaskan news pretty regularily in our local newspaper, and it sounds like she's busy being governor in Alaska. 

[crazy canuck]

Then she might get the Yukon vote but for those of us who dont get the local news out of Alaska she has looked pretty silly on national Canadian and American broadcasts - when she comes up that is.

[saskganesh]

Well, Tim did post the whole thing, while Weatherman just posted a link.

Tim 1 point , Weatherman 1/2 a point.

ironically in a thread about law and justice, Tim was the one who broke the law.

[Sheilbh]

How do you figure?

We get Alaskan news pretty regularily in our local newspaper, and it sounds like she's busy being governor in Alaska. 

She seems to have made some odd choices.  Literally a dreadful Attorney General nomination who seems to have suggested that rape within marriage is okay and had this deeply bizarre analogy when asked how he'd deal with cases involving gays:
Let me give you an analogy. I hate lima beans. I've never liked lima beans. But if I was hired to represent the United Vegetable Growers would you ask me if I liked lima beans? No. If I disliked lima beans? No. Because my job is to represent the United Vegetable Growers.

I also believe she got into a big argument over an appointment that was to replace a Democrat, so I think that under Alaska law the Democrats get to choose a short-list.  She rejected their short-list three times and tried to nominate various other people instead.  I think she also said that the Democratic Senator (Begich?) should resign so there could be a special election because charges were dropped against Stevens.

That stuff isn't the quiet, focussed, reformist politics I think she needed to practise to re-defire her public image.

[katmai]

How do you figure?

We get Alaskan news pretty regularily in our local newspaper, and it sounds like she's busy being governor in Alaska. 

[Zanza]

What happens if that 89-year old judge gets Alzheimers but still lives for another ten years? Can Congress or his peers fire him?

[MadImmortalMan]

How do you figure?

We get Alaskan news pretty regularily in our local newspaper, and it sounds like she's busy being governor in Alaska. 

She seems to have made some odd choices.  Literally a dreadful Attorney General nomination who seems to have suggested that rape within marriage is okay and had this deeply bizarre analogy when asked how he'd deal with cases involving gays:
Let me give you an analogy. I hate lima beans. I've never liked lima beans. But if I was hired to represent the United Vegetable Growers would you ask me if I liked lima beans? No. If I disliked lima beans? No. Because my job is to represent the United Vegetable Growers.

I also believe she got into a big argument over an appointment that was to replace a Democrat, so I think that under Alaska law the Democrats get to choose a short-list.  She rejected their short-list three times and tried to nominate various other people instead.  I think she also said that the Democratic Senator (Begich?) should resign so there could be a special election because charges were dropped against Stevens.

That stuff isn't the quiet, focussed, reformist politics I think she needed to practise to re-defire her public image.

Where do you get this stuff? Do you have the Sarah Palin RSS feed or something?

[ulmont]

What happens if that 89-year old judge gets Alzheimers but still lives for another ten years? Can Congress or his peers fire him?

Congress can impeach any Article 3 federal judge (district court, circuit court of appeals, or Supreme Court), which requires a simple majority of the House of Representatives to vote to impeach and then two thirds of the Senate to vote to convict.

To date, 13 federal judges have been impeached and 7 convicted...one of whom is now in the House of Representatives.

[MadImmortalMan]

What happens if that 89-year old judge gets Alzheimers but still lives for another ten years? Can Congress or his peers fire him?

Congress can impeach any Article 3 federal judge (district court, circuit court of appeals, or Supreme Court), which requires a simple majority of the House of Representatives to vote to impeach and then two thirds of the Senate to vote to convict.

To date, 13 federal judges have been impeached and 7 convicted...one of whom is now in the House of Representatives.

LOL U RANG??

[Sheilbh]

Where do you get this stuff? Do you have the Sarah Palin RSS feed or something?

I'm an English student.  I have lots of spare time

[Neil]

Congress can impeach any Article 3 federal judge (district court, circuit court of appeals, or Supreme Court), which requires a simple majority of the House of Representatives to vote to impeach and then two thirds of the Senate to vote to convict.

To date, 13 federal judges have been impeached and 7 convicted...one of whom is now in the House of Representatives.

Once the Democrats have their Senate supermajority, I would imagine that they'll start purifying the judiciary.