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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (51552)	7/3/2005 8:44:21 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Yep. These guys think that there's already 100 precedents the Scalia-Thompson wing of the court are just dying to over turn. pfaw.org “Replacing Justice O’Connor with another Justice Scalia would be a disaster for civil rights, privacy, and the rights of individuals to be protected against abuse by government or corporate power,” said Neas. “In the coming weeks the President and Senate will decide whether we have a Supreme Court that will preserve the social justice achievements of the 20th Century, or whether we will retreat to a 19th Century interpretation of the Constitution, with individual rights given far less protection against state power and corporate irresponsibility. The American people must be part of this great debate over our future.” As People For the American Way Foundation recently documented in Courting Disaster, Justices Scalia and Thomas are eager to have the Court reverse gains in civil rights, environmental protection, privacy and reproductive rights, separation of church and state, and more. In fact, a Scalia-Thomas majority on the Court could overturn more than 100 Supreme Court precedents going back to the New Deal...."