* Wilbur Hubbard wrote, On 3/13/2007 3:22 PM:

"Jeff" wrote in message
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* Wilbur Hubbard wrote, On 3/13/2007 3:01 PM:

Five liberal justices voted in favor of the right to take the
property. Four justices voted against. The five voting for were
appointed by Democrat Presidents. The four voting against by
Republican presidents.

Five Supreme Court justices appointed by Democrats???? Its been a
while since we've had that!

John Roberts G.W. Bush September 29, 2005 John Paul Stevens Ford
December 19, 1975
Antonin Scalia Reagan September 26, 1986
Anthony Kennedy Reagan February 18, 1988
David Souter G.H.W. Bush October 9, 1990
Clarence Thomas G.H.W. Bush October 23, 1991 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Clinton August 10, 1993
Stephen Breyer Clinton August 3, 1994
Samuel Alito G.W. Bush January 31, 2006

Also, Alito replaced Sandra Day O'Conner, who was nominated by Reagan;
Roberts replaced William Rehnquist, who was nominated by Nixon

So its been a long long time since the Supreme Court was controlled
by Democratic nominees.

You just flunked basic American History. Your citizenship has been
revoked!


You don't even have the right group, bonehead! Here's how it went down.

Stevens was joined in the majority by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy,
David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer. If they
weren't liberals to begin with they are recognized as liberals now.

O'Connor was joined in her dissent by Chief Justice William H.
Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. They wrote
that the majority had tilted in favor of those with "disproportionate
influence and power in the political process, including large
corporations and development firms."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...300783_pf.html
Go to the back of the class . . .

Just like a Republican. When you're caught in a lie, you just deny
what you said! You were very explicit in claiming that the five
justices in favor were all "appointed by Democrat Presidents." In
fact, as I showed, only two were.

And you showed wrong. Two that were involved and now are retired were
Democrat appointees. That makes four out of the five in the majority
were Democrat appointees. So I was one off. Can I help it if one
Republican joined the Democrat traitors?


Lets go over this again real slow, so that even the most ignorant
conservatives can follow it. Clearly, three of the majority were
Republicans appointees. The two who retired recently were, in fact,
both Republican nominees, and were dissenters.

The majority:
John Paul Stevens Ford December 19, 1975
Anthony Kennedy Reagan February 18, 1988
David Souter G.H.W. Bush October 9, 1990
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Clinton August 10, 1993
Stephen Breyer Clinton August 3, 1994

The dissenters:
Sandra Day O'Conner Reagan September 25, 1981
William Rehnquist Nixon January 7, 1972
Antonin Scalia Reagan September 26, 1986
Clarence Thomas G.H.W. Bush October 23, 1991

BTW, one of the Clinton appointees replaced Blackmun, who was a Nixon
appointee. And Souter replaced Brennan, who was an Eisenhower
appointee. So the Supreme Court has been "republican" for a long time.