I've been harping on the Supreme Court since the primaries

[Hawaii Hiker]

I've made several posts (back when Obama & Clinton were still in their intense primary battle) about how I would have easily voted in the general election for either Democrat without heistation for the sake of the Supreme Court.....The EV site hit the court topic today....I hope the PUMA people think about this before they vote for McBush...Talk about voting against your own self interests....A vote for McBush is a vote for justices like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, & Ailito.....

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"Supreme Court Vacancies Likely in Next Four Years
One issue that has been totally absent from the campaign is the Supreme Court. Five of the justices are 70 or more. Justice Stevens is 88 and unlikely to want to serve 4 more years. Justice Ginsberg had cancer and was operated on for it. Justice Souter is known to want to retire and return to New Hampshire. These are three of the most liberal justices on the court. If all three retire and are replaced by Obama, the court will retain its even split between liberals and conservatives for many years to come. If all three are replaced by McCain, the conservatives will have a clear majority and surely reverse Roe v. Wade and many other decisions that conservatives think are wrong. It is amazing that the court has gotten so little attention".


www.electoral-vote.com

[tedoll78]

1. Same here.

There's a story to each electoral outcome.

McCain wins: Stevens and probably Ginsburg probably won't be able to hold-on for another 4 years, which would flip those seats to Scalia clones, making the court 6-1-2 in favor of the right-wing. Breyer and Souter would be the lone liberals on the bench. Scalia would be able to retire too, if he sees fit to use such an opportunity.

The court would be lost to the extreme right for at least a generation.

America could then proceed to elect liberals into infinity, but all it would take is a right-wing court challenge to knock-down any good laws we'd pass.

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Obama wins: Stevens are Ginsburg are safely replaced, maintaining the court's 4-1-4 balance. But demographic changes continue to shift the electoral map towards the Democrats, inch by inch, to the point where we have a near lock on the electoral college. Scalia, Thomas, and the other conservatives can only hold-out for so long, and liberals eventually come to dominate the high court.

If we win this one, we likely have a lock on the Supreme Court for at least a generation. Probably longer.

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{Personal aside: I turned 30 last Monday; the earliest I'd ever be likely to see a moderate court in my lifetime would be in my late 50s, probably 60s. We lose this one, and I most probably quit caring about the future of this country, instead choosing to prepare for the country's horrific decline.}