“Settled Law” is settled only until the Supreme Court decides it isn’t.
Never forget Plessy v Ferguson stood for 58 years before the Brown Decision came along. You don’t get much more settled than 54 years do you?
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I have one thing to say about “Settled Law”
Posted: April 5, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: law, reality, supreme court
As a rule it’s a bad idea to get involved in other people’s fights…
Posted: January 27, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speechTags: blog, honor, peg rules, supreme court
But I owe Peg and Sicilians never forget:
Here is Peg’s post on the subject:
Still, I think it very sad when people have an attitude like Maha seems to have about the world. As much as I disagree with some of the positions liberals take, I just cannot reason from that that millions of my fellow Americans are awful, stupid people. They are not. I may think that some are naive, or haven’t been exposed to some of the experiences that conservatives and/or libertarians have, etc., etc. But terrible people? Nope. And further – possible that I am wrong about some of my reasoning and my opinions? Sure! But if the discussion stops, how will anyone ever know?
Shades of the RedNeck stuff. I confess when it comes to Peg I’ve VERY Biased and left this comment:
Well you know us evil conservatives, we turn up in the most unlikely places to spread our cause to destroy the world, strangle puppies and generally wreak havoc.
Banning Peg, that’s Charles Johnson territory, but hey your blog, your rules.
but there are two sides to every story so in fairness to Mahablog, here is the entire thread. Read it and make up your own mind.
(Mind you the Glenn Beck joke is pretty good.)
Oh and one more thing about this Judge Sotomayor…
Posted: May 28, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: sotomayor, supreme court
…the simple test is to reverse the words “Latina Woman” and “White Man” and imagine her as a white guy speaking to an audience saying that.
If you make the reversal and conclude that a man saying that would be an unacceptable racist then so is she.
Update: Darren Hutchinson thinks that it is a PR loser, he might be right but that doesn’t address the question on the floor:
If a White candidate made the statement as indicated above would he be disqualified for even a lower court position?
Reality should always trump PR.
A quick thought on Sotomayor…
Posted: May 26, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: obama, supreme court
…I would have thought that president Obama would have waited for his 2nd opening for this one due to her radical nature and opinions.
The media will mainstream her as best as possible but i don’t see any chance of her being stopped.
Since she is replacing a reliable liberal vote I would have saved this nominee for attempts to replace a more conservative justice.
I’m wondering if due to the Gitmo issues they felt the need to make sure they made their base happy right away.
We shall see how it goes.
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