BS: What a term for the Supreme Court!

Subject: BS: What a term for the Supreme Court!
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 03 - 06:27 PM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this term's Supreme Court rulings, considering how much it cheered up liberals and depressed conservatives.

Thank God we got Kennedy instead of Bork!

From today's Washington Post:

"The court's self-conscious effort to incorporate modern attitudes on race and sexuality into constitutional doctrine was, to the right, an unpardonable display of judicial activism."

They were probably pretty pissed about the ruling that upheld the Virginia ban on cross burning as "free speech" too.

Subject: RE: BS: What a term for the Supreme Court!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Jun 03 - 06:47 PM

I don't know the end of it, but the term begins on the first Monday in October.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What a term for the Supreme Court!
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 03 - 07:04 PM

It just ended. It's been in all the papers. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What a term for the Supreme Court!
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 03 - 07:11 PM

The Supremes have also upheld the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protective Act, which will force public libraries which receive certain federal monies to install Internet filters.

They overturned one type of affirmative action and approved another.

And the Chief Justice, at the final session, said that he had a retirement to announce. Needless to say, the press was on tippy-toes. He announced the retirement of the Supreme Court's librarian and the appointment of another.

Subject: RE: BS: What a term for the Supreme Court!
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Jun 03 - 10:53 PM

Well, considerin' the extremeist that we ahve in the White Housem I reckonm since most of these Supreme Court justuces are Republican appointees that Bush woule be gettin' very thing he wants. O'Conner changed that on AA. Hey, after these folks interceded in them '00 election, big time, I reckon they felt they owed the real folks a bone 'er two....

Don't go gettin' giddy here, Roe v Wade comin' up and these folks gonna take it on down........

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: What a term for the Supreme Court!
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 03 - 09:03 AM

They:

approved continuing but limited affirmative action
struck down sodomy laws
upheld Internet filtering for schools and libraries
upheld California's three strikes law
upheld "Megan's Laws"
ruled that states could punish cross burning
held that RICO couldn't be used against abortion protestors
upheld a 20 year extension of copyright
ruled that a state may try to force drug companies to lower prices
ruled against Victoria's Secret

Some of these decisions could be defined as "liberal" and others "conservative."

Looks like a mixed bag to me. And as for Roe v. Wade, I dunno -- the sodomy decision seems to reinforce privacy rights.