The Supremes' Greatest Hits

[Stinky The Clown]

How often have you heard how important it is to protect the Democrats' ability to appoint Supreme Court Justices?

How well do you recall the cheering that Sonia Sotomayor was appointed?

How well do you recall the concerns about Kagan, but the eventual acquiescence of the left to her appointment?

How many are cheering today in the face of yesterday's court decision that essentially guts the very notion of a class action law suit? That was a unanimous decision. The decision was penned by Fat Nino, the criminal jurist.

Vafancullo, says Fat Nino.

Yeah, dat, says the other eight.











Tell me again what we're working for?













It was fucking unanimous. Not a word of dissent.













Unanimous.

[here_is_to_hope]

1. This thread is disappoint...

I went and put on my high heeled sneakers ready for some Motown...

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. I was expecting something else also

[SDuderstadt]

2. It does not "essentially gut the very notion of a class action lawsuit"

You might want to actually read the decision.

[grasswire]

3. and what about today's decision that a poor person does not need a lawyer?

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/06/21/lawyers_not_required_justices_rule/

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court yesterday refused to require states to provide lawyers for poor people in civil cases involving incarceration, but ordered state officials to ensure that those hearings are “fundamentally fair’’ to the person facing possible detention.

The justices voted, 5 to 4, to uphold the appeal of Michael Turner, a South Carolina man sent to jail for up to 12 months after he insisted he could not afford his child support payments. Turner had no lawyer, and said all people facing jail time have a constitutional right to a lawyer.

Justice Stephen Breyer, who wrote the opinion for the court’s four liberal-leaning justices and Justice Anthony Kennedy, would not go that far, saying “the Due Process Clause does not always require the provision of counsel in civil proceedings where incarceration is threatened.’’

But Breyer said Turner was never told his ability to pay was the crucial question at his civil contempt hearing, no one provided him with a form that would have helped him disclose his financial information, and the state court never even officially determined whether Turner had the ability to pay the child support he owed.

“Under these circumstances, Turner’s incarceration violated the Due Process Clause,’’ Breyer said. The court’s four conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, dissented. Thomas said he agreed that there was no constitutional right to a lawyer for people facing jail time in a civil case, but would not have ruled that the South Carolina courts treated Turner unfairly because that issue was not before the court.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. FiveToFours we can debate. We can bemaon. We can work for better results.

Unanimous?

Forget it.

[Dawson Leery]

6. With a Democratic President, you are not going to get

Don Tony and Don Sammy on the court.