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Unable to Mourn, Unable to Care

Unable to Mourn, Unable to Care

Now that more than two thousand of our side, and who knows, really, how many thousands of the other side (the ones who start counting seem to end up dead fairly often), it’s a good time to review a basic lack in the President, who was put into office through the judicial activism he claims to deplore. This President, simply, doesn’t care. Bush stole the 2004 election – E L Doctorow’s statement Ringing even more truthfully today than it did…

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Independent Judiciary, Roe v Wade

Independent Judiciary, Roe v Wade

So what does Sandra Day O’Connor say (in case you’ve forgotten, she is a Republican but not a neo-con) now that she has announced her retirement from the Supreme Court? Speaking in Spokane WA to a group of lawyers and judges in late July, retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she is worried about the future of the federal judiciary because of a “climate of antipathy” in Congress. “I’m pretty old, you know. In all the years…

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