Dana Milbank: And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty

[Robbien]

Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is a fairly accomplished jurist, but he might want to get himself a good lawyer -- and perhaps a few more bodyguards. Conservative leaders meeting in Washington yesterday for a discussion of "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" decided that Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, should be impeached, or worse.

Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment." To cheers and applause from those gathered at a downtown Marriott for a conference on "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith," Schlafly said that Kennedy had not met the "good behavior" requirement for office and that "Congress ought to talk about impeachment."

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Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law." Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.

The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem." Presumably, Vieira had in mind something less extreme than Stalin did and was not actually advocating violence. But then, these are scary times for the judiciary. An anti-judge furor may help confirm President Bush's judicial nominees, but it also has the potential to turn ugly.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38308-2005Apr8.html

[Indykatie]

1. RW Conservatives

never fail to prove that they are a mean spirited heartless bunch of idiots.

[Cha]

2. Culture of LIFELESS..

Idiots!

Go Kennedy..who knew?

[GOPFighter]

3. Recommended for Greatest

These people are really out of control. RW extremists are now starting to devour their own.

Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said...The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."

Wow! The extreme RW are now OPENLY advocating Stalinist solutions to problems!

[glitch]

4. What!? Looks like all of Kennedy's kowtowing to the far right has gotten

him exactly nothing. There's a lesson in that.

[aquart]

5. Christian faith says to execute children?

As long as they've left the womb?

[lins the liberal]

6. These people are truly insane

Recommended for Greatest.

I can't believe these people have taken over our country, yet are still crying about being an abused minority!

[soleft]

7. They decry Marxist policies and Promote Stalin policy to solve them

It's the same Neocon insanity - liberalism brought about Nazism, so let's use Fascism to defeat liberalism, and so it goes

[Patiod]

8. Someone should report this to the FBI

sounds like he was making a death threat against Viera. "Presumably Vieira had in mind something less extreme than Stalin did and was not actually advocating violence" the article tells us.

In these "post 9/11 times" (as the right is so fond of saying when they're restricting civil rights) I don't think we can be too cautious.

[stevedeshazer]

9. They seem to stop just short of "Death to Judges"

The old battleaxe herself, er, the "doyenne of American conservatism"

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/Pictures/Persons/003706/003706-184564-04.jpg

[rodeodance]

10. Phyllis Schlafly-- I saw her on a talk show yesterday-had not seen her

in a while--not that I missed her!!

[BrklynLiberal]

12. They brought her back from the dead for this campaign.

This stuff scares the hell out of me. VERY 1930's Germany.

[stevedeshazer]

16. I'm with you, BrklynLiberal

It is truly scary.

[progressoid]

11. Gaaa - what a waste of oxygen

[stevedeshazer]

17. And, where the hell is she

In some kind of underground bunker?

Where are the cases of chili and shotgun shells?

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/Pictures/Persons/003706/003706-184564-04.jpg

[LeftyMom]

19. Is that background supposed to make her look scholarly?

The bookshelves in the background might be more impressive if they were somewhat full and the books on them didn't appear to be Reader's Digest condensed books.

Kind of looks like the set of the Jerrry Springer show. Just before the commercial break, Phyllis revealed that she's really Phillip.

[tinrobot]

13. They want to kill children?

Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment."

Did I just read that?

The pary that advocates a 'culture of life' wants to impeach a sitting Supreme Court judge so they can execute children?

My brain just exploded.

[Catt03]

18. And this

Schlafly called for passage of a quartet of bills in Congress that would remove courts’ power to review religious displays, the Pledge of Allegiance, same-sex marriage and the Boy Scouts. Her speech brought a subtle change in the argument against the courts from emphasizing “activist” judges—it was, after all, inaction by federal judges that doomed Schiavo—to “supremacist” judges. “The Constitution is not what the Supreme Court says it is,” Schlafly asserted.


Didn't one of her children announce they were gay?

[mattclearing]

14. Is this about that cult of life thing again?

Impeaching judges for upholding minority status in death penalty cases (Kennedy).

Threatening judges for upholding majority/marital status in a family dispute (Schiavo).

What are they after? Do they want to do away with power of the individual altogether? The state can kill anyone, your parents will always own you, and so on?

What a bunch of lunatics.

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. There is no end to the horror of these monsters.

It's an ugly irony that they pride themselves so loudly on their extreme patriotism, but they are the ones who are doing all they can to destroy the rule of law and the US constitutional government. Encouraging them is one on the long list of crimes by the Bush cartel. Even stealing elections can't gut the judicial branch fast enough for them, so they are taking their own vile path.