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Part 1. The Courts:


http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr ... urts/full/
Obama could alter stance of federal appeals courts

Published - Feb 05 2012 09:52AM EST
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings.

Despite his slow start in nominating judges and Republican delays in Senate confirmations, Obama has still managed to alter the balance of power on four of the nation's 13 circuit courts of appeals. Given a second term, Obama could have the chance to install Democratic majorities on several others.

Fourteen of the 25 appeals court judges nominated by Obama replaced Republican appointees.

The next president, whether it's Obama or a Republican, also has a reasonable shot at transforming the majority on the Supreme Court, because three justices representing the closely divided court's liberal and conservative wings, as well as its center, will turn 80 before the next presidential term ends.

The three justices are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the leader of the court's liberal wing, conservative Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy, who leans conservative but on some issues provides a decisive vote for the liberals.

The next high court opening would cause a titanic confirmation fight if it would allow a Republican president to cement conservative control of the court by replacing Ginsburg or if Obama could give Democratic appointees a working majority for the first time in decades by replacing Scalia or Kennedy.

The prospect of such dramatic change on the Supreme Court, along with the justices' strikingly high-profile election-year docket could heighten the judiciary's importance as an election issue, said Curt Levey, who heads the conservative Committee for Justice. The justices will hear arguments on Obama's health care overhaul in March and Arizona's immigration crackdown in April. The court also could soon decide whether to hear a Texas affirmative action case challenging the use of race as a factor in college admissions.

Even one new justice can produce dramatic change. Justice Samuel Alito replaced the more moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and shifted the outcome in cases on abortion, campaign finance and other key issues, even though both were appointed by Republicans.

Openings on the circuit courts of appeals get much less attention, but those courts have the last say in most legal disputes that are appealed in the federal system. Only about 80 cases make it to the Supreme Court every year.

There are still more Republicans than Democrats on the circuit appeals courts and on the entire federal bench. But if Obama merely filled existing vacancies, Democratic appointees would be the majority on the influential court of appeals in Washington, where four current Supreme Court justices once served, and the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Republicans also maintain their edge on the 10th Circuit in Denver only because two judgeships are empty.

Two other appeals courts on which Republicans have comfortable majorities could shift over the next four years. The Chicago-based 7th Circuit has four judges in their 70s who were chosen by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. In the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit, Judge Emilio Garza, a Republican appointee, will take senior status in August, a move that will open a seat while Garza takes a smaller caseload. Two Reagan picks in their 70s remain on the court.

Twelve Reagan appointees now in their 70s remain on circuit appeals courts or, in the case of Scalia and Kennedy, the Supreme Court............

Allow me to introduce Mitt Romney, hes just like Obama-

RomneyCare-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachuse ... are_reform

The progenitor of ObamaCare, passed by Romney


Romney on AWB-

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index ... 124.0;wap2

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=38517

“Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,” Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen’s groups and gun safety advocates. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.” . ”

“ Like the federal assault weapons ban, the state ban, put in place in 1998, was scheduled to expire in September. The new law ensures these deadly weapons, including AK-47s, UZIs and Mac-10 rifles, are permanently prohibited in Massachusetts no matter what happens on the federal level.

George Soros on Romney-

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Soro ... /id/425830


and for those slacking-

George Soros-
Aided the Nazis in rounding up fellow citizens to be sent to concentration camps

Behind most gun control in the world through various groups he finances

He also supported Obama in his bid for president

Maybe the reelection of Obama would really wake America up.
The first time resulted in all kinds of reaction, from the huge increase in gun buying to talk of secession.
Maybe his getting elected, yet another time, will really get Americans off their butts.

g.willikers wrote:Maybe the reelection of Obama would really wake America up.
The first time resulted in all kinds of reaction, from the huge increase in gun buying to talk of secession.
Maybe his getting elected, yet another time, will really get Americans off their butts.

Sure it will. Just like turning up the heat gets those frogs to jump out of the pot. This is the same sort of faulty reasoning used by the Communists when they agitated against economic and social injustice but then attacked anyone trying to actually reform things. That was because the Commies believed that they would be more likely to gain power if conditions got worse. That tactic led them to support Hitler right at the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany. And because of it all of them ended up dead, in concentration camps or in exile.

Has Romney said what he'd do with ObamaCare, once elected? I know Newt has been quite outspoken about it's
repeal through all means possible. if he's elected.

CigarGuy wrote:Has Romney said what he'd do with ObamaCare, once elected? I know Newt has been quite outspoken about it's
repeal through all means possible. if he's elected.

Pam Bondi Florida's AG, said when Romney wins, she'll be in the administration, "tweaking" obamacare, making it "romneycare"

CigarGuy wrote:Has Romney said what he'd do with ObamaCare, once elected? I know Newt has been quite outspoken about it's
repeal through all means possible. if he's elected.

Repeatedly.

Tom Fernandez wrote:"President Obama wants to fundamentally transform America," Romney says. "I stand ready to lead us down a different path. This president has enacted job-killing regulations; I’ll eliminate them. He lost our triple-A credit rating; I’ll restore it. He passed Obamacare; I’ll repeal it."

Tom Fernandez wrote:President Obama wants to fundamentally transform America," Romney says. "I stand ready to lead us down a different path. This president has enacted job-killing regulations; I’ll eliminate them. He lost our triple-A credit rating; I’ll restore it. He passed Obamacare; I’ll repeal it."

Presidents learned the hard way that when they make a big promise like that and then get elected they'd best do their damndest to carry it out. Or else.

Just ask Bush the Elder: "Read my lips: No New Taxes!"

Why do you think that Obama, despite his political base in the old anti-war movement, called Afghanistan (the most useless nation in the world) a "War of necessity, forced upon us." then ordered a surge after becoming President?