Specter to probe Supreme Court decisions

Buyer's remorse? :eyes:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5099.html


Specter to probe Supreme Court decisions

By: Carrie Budoff
Jul 25, 2007 06:07 AM EST

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) plans to review the Senate testimony of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel J. Alito to determine if their reversal of several long-standing opinions conflicts with promises they made to senators to win confirmation.

Specter, who championed their confirmation, said Tuesday he will personally re-examine the testimony to see if their actions in court match what they told the Senate.

"There are things he has said, and I want to see how well he has complied with it," Specter said, singling out Roberts.

The Specter inquiry poses a potential political problem for the GOP and future nominees because Democrats are increasingly complaining that the Supreme Court moved quicker and more dramatically than advertised to overturn or chip away at prior decisions.

Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, who served as chairman during the hearings, said he wants to examine whether Roberts and Alito have "lived up" to their assurances that they would respect legal precedents.

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He knows damn well those bastards lied.

:eyes:

Specter is well known for barking but not biting. Nothing will come of this. He'll determine that Alito and Roberts are swell, honest men who love their country.

And then they'll be able to say "But it was investigated, and turned out to be a non-issue!"

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Hmmm...I don't trust him, wouldn't trust him to come through on anything.

His story always sounds good until you get down to the wire and then he quietly sells out. I've heard too many of his crime-fighter spiels that turn into nothing later on.

:(

He is a Representative of the " Good Ole Boy Network " made his Bones in 1963 just like Poppy.

obnoxious treatment of Anita Hill in the Thomas hearings) it can at least be said that he is throwing the idea out there that nominees for the courts lie to get the jobs...with special emphasis on Roberts and Alito. The latter two have overstepped their bounds and knocked down precedents at a rapid clip and they can too be impeached. At least Specter might slow them down a little if they think their lies might be exposed.

very easy to overturn their cases when they get replaced. The Supreme Court, once it jumped the shark, lost its moral authority. Sure, we'll have to abide by the legal decisions until we can formally change them, but as time goes on, people will see the current right-wing judges for the Gonzos they are.

Could the President when a Democrat is elected?

I just as soon have them arrested outright and jail them.

with Dick Cheney (Oh, man I just remembered that! What a missed opportunity!) Scalia claimed that judges self-regulate themselves on matters that require recusal. So, I really don't know who would bring charges of impeachment. However, Arlen does have the potential to lay the foundation if he's truthful in his conclusions.

And if a judge does not recuse themselves there are penalties. Of course it requires someone knowing that a judge has a conflict and exposes that judge.

I was involved in a case and the judge made a statement that he knew the opposing party and her family and the problems she has had in her life. My attorney didn't do anything. Later I told him that the judge should be recused because of the conflict of interest. Got a different judge.

My attorney didn't do anything. I practically had to educate the worthless nimwit.

I determined long ago that it was for two reasons: (1) They really don't want to be too much of a pain in the ass against the establishment for fear they'll get blackballed by their peers; and (2) because in school they teach these nitwits to Lexus everything so some computer wizard has already connected the dots for them. They do the same with Forms. They just follow pre-set formulas and they call it lawyering. That, to me, is not a lawyer. That's a paralegal. A lawyer reviews the cases to come up with reasoning that will benefit his client.

Practice. Practice of medicine and practice of law. Need I say more?

Scalia and Thomas should both be impeached for failing to recuse themselves on Bush v Gore -- financial conflicts of interest.

still in force. The last round's decisions that many do not like were not all 5-4, and some were crticized for moving away from precedent, not bad reasoning.

Do you remember how many judges on the Supreme Court ruled in its favor?

The right answer to solve it is Federal Law, but the Dems are spineless on this one.

hadn't done everything possible to make sure Clarence Thomas was able to lie his way to confirmation.

There were some questions about some straw legal maneuvers made to get around stringent Irish adoption laws, as I recall the story.

Anybody ever run into more info on that issue?

Roberts has no respect for law, ours or anybody else's. All about circumventing laws.

Ireland should open an investigation into that.

And Roberts got his kids via some Latin American adoption or such. SO, he and the Mrs. had some family members adopt the kids, then take them from Ireland to a place with more relaxed laws... something like that.

Might not have broken any laws but sure as hell pissed all over the spirit of some laws if true.

Was topic of discussion for a while then nothing more. Was wondering if anybody had info/links to how that thing actually went down.

:sarcasm:

I tend to believe that he was "issued" a wife and kids by the powers that be to cover up that he's a gay man.

both committed fraud when they were interviewed for their SCOTUS positions. They both repeated "stare decisis et non quieta movere" meaning "stand by decisions and do not move that which is quiet". More busho henchmen BULLSHIT!!!

Has any of his investigations ever resulted in achieving satisfaction or justice for us?

Fox told me so

If you'd just once...JUST FRIGGING ONCE...make good on your putative outrage, you could accomplish something.

Damn, but this guy frosts my windshield.