[lbo-talk] Alito & disability

[Bitch | Lab]

OK. But who here relies on the courts anyway? How many people on the left 
are spending their time this way? I can understand NN talking to other 
lawyers and to organizations that do focus their energies on that. But 
aren't most of us, here, involved in completely different kinds of things?

i often wonder what this "point" is meant to say to us -- who don't really 
need to be told to stop spending all our energies on the supremes anyway?

Anyone enlighten a bitch?

At 09:25 PM 1/14/2006, John Lacny wrote:
>I have a hard time getting worked up about nomination fights like this, 
>because Bush is going to eventually get a nominee, and whoever it is is 
>going to be bad. It would be different if the Democrats had a majority in 
>the Senate; then, they could at least block the worst ones and insist on 
>some kind of "compromise" nominee, another David Souter or something. As 
>it stands now, Bush will eventually get someone; the Democrats could 
>filibuster, of course, but then the Republicans could just get rid of the 
>filibuster and steamroll the nomination through anyway. You can argue that 
>the Democrats should do that anyway for the symbolic effect, but it would 
>be just that: symbolic. Of course they should at least all vote against 
>him just as they should vote against all Bush nominees, but what practical 
>effect does that have?

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