Graphic: 5 Historic Cases that can be overturned in a Romney Court

[trailmonkee]

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/17/858871/five-scotus-cases-that-could-be-overruled-in-a-romney-court-and-five-that-could-be-overruled-under-obama/

[goclark]

1. Thanks!

[trailmonkee]

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[abelenkpe]

2. K&R nt

[maryellen99]

3. Do you think that under a Romney Administration

That they would try to have Brown vs Board of Education overturned?

[trailmonkee]

4. With GOP privatization and vouchers, yes and no.. they would back door it, not overturn it...imho

[Chan790]

5. All of this is predicate on Obama picking better justices though.

Thus far, his track record is not great: both Kagan and Sotomayor are moderate jurists, neither is what you'd call a great legal mind.

Where are the great liberal judicial thinkers of America and why don't we ever appoint them to the court? Republicans have no problem putting their big judicial thinkers on SCOTUS. Why do we get the likes of Elena "Shorty" Kagan?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Breyer And Ginsburg Are Greatly Respected Jurists

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[Chan790]

7. Breyer I'll give you...

it's not that I think RBG is not a great jurist (I think she's brilliant)...I suspect that she's going to retire in the very near future, the most liberal justice on the bench...and be replaced by another lesser moderate. I can easily see this court moving right under Obama from where it was under Clinton and continuing to move right unless he changes his philosophy on who he appoints to SCOTUS.

[trailmonkee]

8. still better than Romney...

[trailmonkee]

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[KamaAina]

10. Olmstead v. L.C.

the 1999 decision that found that forcing people wuith disabilities to live in institutions violated their civil rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Believe it or not, Olmstead is under attack right now -- by a Democrat! Gov. Christing Gregoire of Washington is considering appealing the Ninth Circuit's decision in M.R. v. Dreyfus to the Extreme Court.

The case was won by advocates for the disabled who feared that drastic cuts Gregoire made to home- and community-based services would force many people into nursing homes. (One-quarter of all U.S. nursing home residents are people under age 65 who have significant disabilities.) Basically, by giving the Roberts Court a chance to revisit (read: weaken) Olmstead, Gregoire is trading the hard-earned civil rights of all Amerricans, not just those in Washington, for a short-term budget fix.