Who do you think will be the next conservative Supreme Court judge to retire?

[OneOfTheseDays]

The world we live in is ever-changing. I think it's rather ridiculous to assume a 200 year old document is going to adequately decide every legislative matter in this country. That fact that it does for most things is remarkable in and of itself.

All major social progress in this country was enacted by "liberal" and "renegade" Supreme Courts. Personally, I feel the more centrist and liberal leaning SC justices we have the better. Conservatism is a dead, dying, and ultimately destructive force in this country that needs to go away. It promotes ignorance, hatred, and bigotry and gives people the right to believe their views are anything but that.

 

[fskimospy]

The world we live in is ever-changing. I think it's rather ridiculous to assume a 200 year old document is going to adequately decide every legislative matter in this country. That fact that it does for most things is remarkable in and of itself.

All major social progress in this country was enacted by "liberal" and "renegade" Supreme Courts. Personally, I feel the more centrist and liberal leaning SC justices we have the better. Conservatism is a dead, dying, and ultimately destructive force in this country that needs to go away. It promotes ignorance, hatred, and bigotry and gives people the right to believe their views are anything but that.

Exactly. For example the 4th amendment. How are you going to take the original meaning of the Constitution as the founders meant it and apply it to electronic wiretaps of cellular transmissions in the modern era? Who could possibly say what conditions they would think were 'unreasonable searches' in that context? It's absurd on its face to even try.

 

[thraashman]

This thread is hilarious. It might as well have been titled "Thread designed to start a flame war".

As far as the current SC goes. There's 5 justices that are conservative. One of those (Kennedy) is moderate conservative with occasional swing neutral-ish. Three of them(Scalia, Roberts, Alito) are very to extreme conservative activists (actual studies and not just bullshit rabid partisan rants have shown the conservative judges to all be more activist than the liberal ones, simple facts). And one of them is insane psycho super liberty-hating horrible monster of a human being conservative (Thomas).

 

[Riparian]

I don't really buy this either. It's not like it's split between people who use the Constitution and who don't, or even people who use it some of the time but not others. The Constitution is insanely vague and all the easy questions were answered a long time ago. The questions that come before the court now are always about extremely complex issues where the Constitution is unclear or it applies poorly.

There are many reasonable and legitimate ways to interpret a 200 year old document, particularly when applying it to things the authors never even had a dream could exist. Reasonable people come to different conclusions on these, and of course for the USSC Presidents select based on what opinion these judges have. It's never so simple as just 'following the Constitution'.

Even if reasonable people can come to different conclusions about complex issues, they tend to scramble to use the Constitution when it supports their viewpoint or avoid / distinguish when it doesn't. Granted that's how our legal system works but my only point is that a strict constructionist does not exist, so why believe that any of the Justices act in that manner.

 

[cybrsage]

This thread is hilarious. It might as well have been titled "Thread designed to start a flame war".

As far as the current SC goes. There's 5 justices that are conservative. One of those (Kennedy) is moderate conservative with occasional swing neutral-ish. Three of them(Scalia, Roberts, Alito) are very to extreme conservative activists (actual studies and not just bullshit rabid partisan rants have shown the conservative judges to all be more activist than the liberal ones, simple facts). And one of them is insane psycho super liberty-hating horrible monster of a human being conservative (Thomas).

Your own post shows you are rabidly left wing. Why should anyone take what you say seriously?

 

[Atreus21]

If you disagree with a SCJ, he's an activist. A radical.

If you agree, he's a moderate.

It's that simple.