Justice Kennedy has second surgery on artery

[onehandle]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After suffering heart pains over the weekend, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was hospitalized for a "routine procedure" to keep an artery open, the court said.

Doctors inserted a stent Saturday to supplement a stent placed in the artery about 10 months ago. The associate justice was released from the Washington Hospital Center on Sunday and was back at work Tuesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/09/05/kennedy.stent/index.html

[AX10]

1. You see why we need to win back the Senate this fall.

[onehandle]

2. Fuck Yeah! nt

[w4rma]

3. He needs to live. He may be a conservative but he isn't a loyalist. (nt)

[Straight Shooter]

4. Heaven help us if bush appoints another to the Supreme Court.

The Dems and their "dry powder" rhetoric. We've got so much dry powder we're choking on it.

[stepnw1f]

5. F*ck That...

We stop Bush from appointing the Next Supreme Court Judge if Kennedy passes away. No way, no how does little Adolf get to deal another hand nevermind play a hand.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. You think they stole elections for $3.00+ gas and cronyism?

Those were perks.

This is why.

[Drum]

11. chilling...probably true...and the most economical explanation yet.

[davidinalameda]

7. just hope he doesn't retire

there is NO way that we can allow Bush to appoint another justice

[Bjorn Against]

8. Why is this not on the greatest page?

This is very important people, we desperately have to hope Kennedy is able to hold out until January 2009. He may not be everything we want in a judge, but he is certainly better than anyone Bush would replace him with.

[Drum]

12. 5th Rec: done. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Praying here -- K&R!

[hedgehog]

10. Bush is building a Supreme Court to rival that of Justice Taney.

He's the one who ruled in the Dred Scott case.

[fooj]

13. I looked at my husband over dinner tonight and said...

"Now do you see why these Justices are so important?" I told him that I believed we were one judge away from the end of democracy as we know it.

Stay well, Justice Kennedy. Take good care.

[many a good man]

14. "the end of democracy as we know it"

That's not hyperbole. One more right wing, pro-"unitary executive" justice and we will have lost our present form of government with its system of checks and balances and there will be no turning back for at least a generation. There will be no recourse short of revolution.

[ms liberty]

15. And here I have been worrying about Justice Stevens...

after all, he's older than dirt (bless his heart!), and he's the oldest Justice on the SC. Thank the Gods, he seems to be incredibly healthy. That said, we don't need to lose any of the Justices who have a modicum of reasonableness like Kennedy, who's become the "new" O'Conner swing vote. Not that I wish any of them ill, but if it was Scalia, Thomas, Alito, or Roberts I wouldn't be as worried - especially the first two!