O'Connor steps down (merged threads)

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Prudence and Sac - do you not think that it is also going to be an opportunity for the left to use scare tactics about how any conservative justice will erode their rights? I find that to be particularly humorous being that the recent decisions have been voted for and ruled in the affirmatived by primarily those justices seen as left leaning, like Souter, Ginsberg, and Breyer. You didn't see those categorized as right leaning - specifically Scalia and Thomas - voting to drastically change the law on private property rights.

Speaking for myself only:

I personally think those involved in recent majority decisions have lost their ever-lovin' minds.

(I probably score more libertarian than liberal on many issues. I was a conservative/Republican at one point in my life, then got tired of the enormous influence of the Moral Majority butting its nose into my personal business.)

But I don't think any of those issues will be relevant. I think the debate will focus almost exclusively on abortion. And regardless of my position on that issue, it's a sad day for American Jurisprudence when one's stance on abortion is the critical and deciding factor on one's worthiness to sit on the nation's highest court.