Sandra Day O'Connor says rulings are being 'dismantled'

[usregimechange]

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she regrets that some of her decisions "are being dismantled" by the current Supreme Court.

O'Connor, who generally has avoided questions on the substance of the court under Chief Justice John Roberts, made the observation during a wide-ranging and unusually candid panel discussion over the weekend.

Asked how she felt about the fact that the current court had undone some of her rulings, the nation's first woman justice responded, "What would you feel? I'd be a little bit disappointed. If you think you've been helpful, and then it's dismantled, you think, 'Oh, dear.' But life goes on. It's not always positive."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-10-05-sandra-day-oconnor_N.htm?csp=34


Even she is not all that pleased with the Robert's court.

[peace frog]

1. I will never forgive O'Connor

for her role in making George W Bush president in 2000. Has she expressed regret for that decision?

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[malaise]

4. +1

SOmeone should ask her that question

[aquart]

5. No. She remains a member in good standing of the Filthy Five.

[HughBeaumont]

6. As far as I know, not one OUNCE.

Nor has she or Anthony Kennedy apologized AFAIK.

And as long as Sandra feels the deaths of 1 million people (possibly more thanks to zero talk of universal health care) and the exacerbated economic ruin of the USA on one single solitary person's slimy vote is not worth apologizing for, then as far as I'm concerned, she can continue to symbolically scrub the blood off of her hands until she grows a conscience and owns up to her bad decision.

I mean, it ain't likely you're gonna get a "sorry" from the twin idiots Scalia or Thomas and Rehnquist's extended dirt nap prevents him from expressing any unlikely regret. So I guess that leaves the two most puzzling votes and an added explanation as to why they chose an obviously unqualified dry drunk and political/business failure over a Vice President and career senator with a near impeccable record of governing. OH, I'd LOVE to hear that one.

[tanyev]

7. Yeah. If only that decision could have been dismantled.

:(

[Zodiak]

12. Yes, she has, actually

She knew she took a giant shit on the US with that decision, and if you ask me, part of her reason for retirement was shame (the main reason being a sick husband).

"That leaves O’Connor. Biskupic, in her USA Today article, wrote, "More significantly, there are signs that the fallout from Bush vs. Gore has become a factor in at least one justice's yearnings for retirement. Sandra Day O'Connor has told people close to her that in her two decades on the court, she's never seen such anger over a case. O'Connor, more than any justice, has seemed disturbed by the public wrath directed at the court.""


http://zeppscommentaries.com/Politics/dividers_guilt.htm

[Arugula Latte]

20. Gee, why would we be angry that the loser of the presidential election was handed the presidency?

Hmmm, can't imagine why people would get their little feathers ruffled. Tsk tsk.

[cui bono]

22. "seemed disturbed by the public wrath" doesn't equal an apology

nor any sense of unease at her decision, just at the public's response to it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. True. When you think about where the dismantling began, that

would be the point of embarkation.

[BR_Parkway]

19. If only there were a way to go back and dismantle that one

[struggle4progress]

21. We'll never hear any public expression of regret from her for that: she may be a more moderate

conservative than W and his crew, but her first loyalties seem to lie with her class and party -- that is, she'd like to be viewed as a "moderate," -- but her Republican friends are even more important to her

Towards the end of W's reign, she was supposedly making the rounds complaining about W's attacks on civil liberties, but she certainty never made any such criticism in any context where media could get a direct quote from her

Her vote in the nonsensical SCOTUS ruling that appointed W is good evidence that her party loyalties trumped any desire she had to be viewed as a moderate

[HughBeaumont]

3. The most unnecessary member of "The Filthy Five" can go pound sand.

Sorry Sandra, but if you're fishing for "disappointing", none is far greater than your participation in the wholesale fascist theft and near-ruination of this country. You sided with dishonorable pigs in deciding a state-run election based on partisan leanings and nullifying an investigation/count that, in hindsight, would have saved nearly 1,000,000 lives worldwide.

This is YOUR legacy and YOU need to issue a profound and sincere apology to the American people for it. Otherwise, you're opinion means as little to me as that asshole idiot Scalia's.

[seafan]

8. To Sandra Day O'Connor: SELECTIONS have consequences.

October 7, 2009

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she regrets that some of her decisions "are being dismantled" by the current Supreme Court.

O'Connor, who generally has avoided questions on the substance of the court under Chief Justice John Roberts, made the observation during a wide-ranging and unusually candid panel discussion over the weekend.

Asked how she felt about the fact that the current court had undone some of her rulings, the nation's first woman justice responded, "What would you feel? I'd be a little bit disappointed. If you think you've been helpful, and then it's dismantled, you think, 'Oh, dear.' But life goes on. It's not always positive."

O'Connor, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1981, was a moderate conservative who often brokered compromises among justices and across ideological lines.

Since she retired in 2006, the court has become more conservative and retreated from some rulings in which she crafted consensus, including on abortion rights, campaign finance and government race-based policies.

.....

Sandra Day O'Connor, your vote to install the Texas brush cutter into the White House in 2000 is one of your decisions that permanently scarred America, and one that millions have died for. And God help us, because we cannot dismantle that decision.


So, don't come simpering to your country now, about your legacy, when your glaringly "no precedent" decision condemned so many people to two illegal wars, occupations and human torture, desperate economic ruin and corrupted government.



Prepare yourself, for you will answer to a higher power for your catastrophic decision that irreversibly damaged this country.

[DaveinJapan]

9. I don't buy this vitriol.

America voted him back in in 2004, after all.

If he was so horrible, why'd he get re-elected?

So easy to place blame on the Supremes, when the truth is the blood is on all our hands.

[HelenWheels]

11. Ohio

The voting in Ohio was very tainted and led to Bush's victory. And with the numbers so close and with the current Supreme Court it would be futile to dispute the election.

[Celebration]

16. Exactly

Ohio, Ohio, Ohio.

[davsand]

18. I have to admit, I am still pissed at Gore for the race he ran that let it BE that close.

I am still pissed at Gore for running such a lackluster campaign (remember--the buck ultimately stops with any candidate) that Florida even mattered. To a certain extent, I am also pissed at Kerry's campaign that Ohio mattered.

The asswipe had a horrible record both as the Gov of Texas and in his first term in the Whitehouse, yet neither candidate could manage to run a campaign that could win decisively.

I will go to my grave convinced that there was stuff going on in the DNC that opened the door for TWO terms of that idiot. For sure there were issues in Florida, Ohio, and on the Supreme Court, but WHY was it close enough that we are even having this conversation?

:shrug:



Laura

[niyad]

24. maybe you should place blame where it belongs--purging of voter rolls,

intimidation at polling places, screwing up polling places in dem areas, fraudulent machines, etc., etc.

we don't know that the vote was close, because we will never KNOW what the vote truly was--or should have been.

[seafan]

14. Here are some keywords to aid you in your research.

warren county ohio lockdown
kenneth blackwell
mike connell
SMARTech

[1955doubledie]

15. People are easily swayed by propaganda

There was that little thing that happened on 9-11-01 (gee, that happened on someone's watch, didn't it?). Too many people were scared into voting for the one they were told repeatedly was "stronger on terror."

Nice cheerleading, by the way. :eyes:

[cui bono]

23. Um... can you say "election fraud"? Yes you can. n/t

[xchrom]

10. and think -- roberts has only just begun. nt

[n2doc]

13. Perhaps she should have waited until after 08 to retire

Alito's on you, Sandy Baby!