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wannabuyamonkey said:
Some of them may have been appointed by Republicans, but that doesn't mean they're consevitives. I've nover run into anyone who would claim that Stevens or Kennedy were conservitives. You're just trying to play guilt by association.



Gosh, Wbam, no one would ever claim that Byron White was a liberal though he was a Kennedy appointment. Stevens and Kennedy just happen to put the law ahead of politics. I haven't read the entire decision but the jist of it seems to be that Federal courts should not intervene in emminent domaine issues. That local government and state courts are better equiped to handle issues of planning and development and bars action in Federal courts. Unlike Schiavo, the court said litigants may not go from court to court until they find one that's sympathetic to their position. Sounds to me like they yielded to local soverignty. What's so dispicable about that?

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