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Forgetting Thurgood Marshall

POSTED: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 10:00 PM

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:17 PM, 06/27/2012

I forget -- did Justice Kagan recuse herself from the ACA case?

— Mr. Smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:48 AM, 06/28/2012

All of those groups of dunderheads are beginning to look alike to me. The Supreme Court, The School Reform Commission, America's Got Talent Judges. They are all assembled with the same basic principles of unprincipled hacks. And there is always a dumb one. Clarence Thomas, Lorene Cary and Sharon Osbourne come to mind. Gone are the days of integrity.

— Dr Barry M Enima

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:23 PM, 06/27/2012

@Mr. Smith- No, Barrys SCOTUS mole is in the mix.

— blackhawk90

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:31 PM, 06/27/2012

Those SCOTUS folks better be watching for Barry's drones.

— TKL008

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:40 PM, 06/27/2012

Why a picture of Thurgood Marshall ? A reminder of the bad old days of JFK & LBJ ? Especially LBJ & his famous war on poverty-shoot,we're still paying for that mistake today.

— Yankee Air Pirate 12

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:56 PM, 06/27/2012

It goes down 6-3 or 7-2. Kagan should have recused herself. She have voted against it to look non-partisan. The Thurgood Marshall picture is because Wilbur longs for the '60s, sad man that he is.

— georgel

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:02 AM, 06/28/2012

Amazing, the useful idiots cheering for Americans to be less healthy ("FREEDOM!!!!"). Why do you all hate America so much anyway? I'm sure those who feel Justice Kagan should recuse herself feel equally strong about the need for Justice Thomas to recuse himself as well. Or felt that Justice Thomas and Scalia should have recused themselves in Bush v. Gore. I'm sure you did.

— BillHicksLives!

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:48 AM, 06/28/2012

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Angry leftie signs in.

— blackhawk90

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:56 AM, 06/28/2012

Kagan worked for Obama (now his mole in SCOTUS) and was involved with the AHCA. She should have recused herself.

Thomas did not work for Obama and was not involved with the creation of the AHCH.

And please don't start with Thomas' wife. Too lame.

Finally, please explain how Thomas and Scalia should have recused themselves from Gore v. Bush.

— blackhawk90

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:43 AM, 06/28/2012

Some of the posters here on this site have reached a new low. Chief Justice Marshall was one of the greatest men to walk this earth and no one here including myself have ever done anything to come close to his legacy.

— Worker1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:33 AM, 06/28/2012

Uh, he was never Chief. He was appointed to the Court (like Clarence) because the President wanted a black appointee. So he wasn't even the best qualified to be justice, just the best qualified who happened to be black.

— phillygwm

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:57 AM, 06/28/2012

Profits before people!

— Jets

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:09 AM, 06/28/2012

I believe the Romney Mandate goes and everything else stays. While fewer people would end up with insurance, the overall cost would be less. If the mandate falls, it will pave the way for a single payer, Medicare for all type system that will truly be "socialized" and more costly than Obamacare in the long run.

— chasing history

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:13 AM, 06/28/2012

It comes down to the question: Are there limits to government power, or are there not? This decision is probably the most important of my lifetime. Are we government subjects, or is the government subject to us (We the People...)? If there is nothing the government can't make you do, that changes the whole relation between citizens and the government, and not for the good.

I take heart in the notion that something which can't possibly endure, will not. So, I predict the Constitution will prevail and the individual mandate will be overturned. The remainder of the law, I'm not so sure.

— jmc

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:17 AM, 06/28/2012

I believe the most memorable quote attributed to Hon. Marshall is "here come tha judge, here come tha judge".

— jpetroff

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