The Supreme Court

[texaspimp]

In your opinion, who would be the foremost expert?

[tripdad]

certainly there are many many experts on constitutional law. can you really say there is one "foremost" expert? perhaps not. after all, Judge Bork had to be taught by someone. i would say that, as a judge, he is must be at the top of the heap.

cheers!

[texaspimp]

I vote for Judge Judy.

Anything to get that shrew off of TV.

Judge Judy = pecker repellant

[lastchance]

I'd love to hear from a lawyer on this. If you were the President, who'd you nominate? And who'd you nominate strictly based on how good a judge they are?

[elwoodblues]

I don't think there is one foremost expert. Good authors with deep knowledge and interesting thoughts include (but are certainly not limited to) Lawrence Tribe and William Lockhart

[elwoodblues]

Just curious what people claiming that america isn't a democracy think of this Bork quote:

"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy"

[sprmario]

Stevens is 84 - liberal; Ford
Renquist is 80 - conservative; Reagan
O'Connor is 74 - moderate but leans conservative; Reagan
Ginsberg is 71 - liberal; Clinton
Scalia is 68 - ultra conservative; Reagan
Kennedy is 68 - moderate but leans conservative; Reagan
Breyer is 66 - liberal; Clinton
Souter is 65 - pretty liberal; Bush
Thomas is 57 - ultra conservative; Bush

Expect Renquist and O'Connor to retire in Bushes' term. Stevens is likely to hold out until he dies because he really doesn't want to be replaced by a Republican president.

*Edit - something interesting to note is that 2 of the justices that are considered as pretty liberal (Stevens and Souter) were nominated by Republican presidents.