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In reply to the discussion: Clarence Thomas may be next to leave Supreme Court [View all]Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)If these people had just one more of our own on the bench instead of relying on the Kennedy Swing we'd already have:
Citizens united would be history. - 2010
Corporations would still have to take proactive actions to protect their workers for fear of litigation holding them responsible. - 2011
Invasion of privacy by drug sniffing dogs would still be prohibited - 2000
There would be severe penalties for private prisions found guilty of abuses - 2009
Fleeing, or just being deemed by a law enforcement officer as attempting to flee would not be grounds for search and seizure. - 2000
Rape victims would be able to sue their attackers - 2000
In 2000, we'd have had President Gore, instead of President Bush - 2000
Right to gun ownership would be determined colletively instead of individually (stronger gun laws like in Illinois wouldn't have been overturned) - 2008
The ACA individual mandate woud have been deemed within Constitutional allowance, and resolved much of the funding issues it now suffers - 2012
And these are just SOME of the BIG ones that the liberal wing of the court, with just one more decision could have decided..
No, Dem leadership most definitely doesn't prefer a conservative court, and certainly the Democratic appointed justices are nowhere near conservative in their decisions.