How come conservative judges very often go liberal after becoming...

[NNN0LHI]

...Supreme Court Justices, but liberal judges never go conservative after making it to the Supreme Court? Weird, ain't it?

Don

[Walt Starr]

1. Roberts will probably be a consensus justice

Watch for it. If Pat Robem$ome is pounding Bush over Roberts in a year, we're cool.

[Jersey Devil]

2. Because they were ambitious law students, not conservatives

A lawyer advocates his clients' causes. That does not mean that he agrees with them. Any young law student coming out of Harvard could probably put on a show worthy of the greatest actor that he is a conservative when given a chance to clerk for a conservative justice of the supreme court and then turn on a dime to be a liberal if being interviewed by a liberal justice. The same holds true when going on to a firm.

Only when freed of pretense can he/she be their own person.

[tk2kewl]

3. i don't think anyone "went liberal"

Souter for example, is a jurist who respects the history of the court and simply isn't a right wing activist

[rzemanfl]

4. That's why they are appointed for life. n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

5. LOL. I don't think Thomas and Scalia will possibly

live long enough then...

[rzemanfl]

7. Not saying they always change, just that they are free to. n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

10. I know. I'm just trying to find things to laugh about

these days.

[livinginphotographs]

6. That's what I'm hoping for in Roberts.

If he's confirmed, I should say.

I still don't think he's as bad as it could've been.

[stevietheman]

13. You're right...

Roberts doesn't appear to be as bad as Thomas or Scalia... but is this saying much? :)

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

8. The constitution is the answer!

It is a very liberal document, hard to be conservative and faithful to it!

[ChiciB1]

9. Ya Know,,., Who Gives A F--K????

Yaddy, yaddy, yaddy!!! When OUR Dems are Stool Pigeons, and "the corrupt ones" want what they want, well Tout Fini! What will be will be!

We ARE the people, We Are the ones who will be affected, and in the end... it simply comes down to Demonstrations, Revolution or ANARCHY!!

The Supidio's will eat their own and wonder :WTF: happened in this country! Time is on OUR side!!

I say that only because historically the scum rises to the surface! And God will make SURE!! Whichever GOD you believe in.

I'm waxing philosophical tonight! Ask me why?? I couldn't give you the slightest inkling as to why I feel this way! Tomorrow I may be a screaming MeMe!!

Woman's intuition?? MAYBE!!!

[Zen Democrat]

11. Conservative judges can become Free At Last, Free At Last.

Thank God Almighty they can become Free At Last.

Look at Brennan, Stephens, Souter, and in some cases Kennedy -- Free At Last!

[Raiden]

12. Tends to happen when one reads the Constitution...

eom

[leesa]

14. Maybe because they are for once exposed to logical analysis of the

law instead of GOP think tank analysis?