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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 01:58 PM Original message |
Scalia Jumps On The Anti-Seventeenth Amendment Bandwagon |
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MBS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. isn't it completely inappropriate for Scalia to have a public |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I don't really consider it bizarre for Scalia to have an opinion on this |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. No, as long as it doesn't impact a ruling. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. inappropriate yes, but this is Scalia we're talking about. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 03:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. As long at it is not an issue before the court, or likely to be before the court, |
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beyurslf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. I guess I don't understand why they would want to do that. |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I think state legislative races are much easier for Republicans to manipulate with money |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 11:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Exactly. Politics is always more corrupt at the local level. That's the First Law of Politics. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. To assure survival of the most corrupt. n/t |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. Just aching to get a case that he can butcher the 17th. nt |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. Not that the constitution does not provide for ... |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. they do the same to the Bible. And facts. They totally ignore annoying facts altogether. |
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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. Time for Senator Lee to put his money where his mouth is... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. No, Mr Scalia, what you can trace the decline of to the passage of that |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
10. Time for the Congress to start impeachment proceedings against Scalia and Alito |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
11. That damn 17th amendment caused the Civil War! And then it ended segregation! |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
13. decline in states rights tracks the decline in lynching |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
14. My understanding is that the 17th was ratified because too many bicameral state legislatures |
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ItNerd4life (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 02:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Finally, some true facts as opposed to all the emotional outrage. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. I was a bit bummed when I learned the history behind it. I always assumed it was due to a burst |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. So, we should return to 1913? Like that was a great time for Amerian workers? |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
16. Scalia should be impeached. His political grandstanding is improper for a sitting Justice of the SC |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 05:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. if one of the 'liberal" justices ... |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. They're like rhemutoid arthritis. They start attacking their own system if they can't dominate it. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. What an ugly POS. I can't believe this freak is on the SCOTUS. nt |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
20. I would support this if... |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
21. No, Fat Tony, "states' rights" declined at Appomatox Court House. |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
27. LOL! WTF |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
29. irony - thinking that letting Americans decide is bad - how anti-American is Scalia? |
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