Who the #!$#% is this idiot Judge Posner on Hardball?

[hedda_foil]

He's such a shithead that Mrs Greenspan is actually holding his feet to the fire!

[LSparkle]

1. My damned cable is out -- I'm gonna miss MoDo on "Spitballs"!!

Hopefully they'll fix it in time for the repeat ...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Oh, THAT clown

Another embarrassment to my profession.

<shudder>

[dennis4868]

3. what is he saying?

[MissB]

4. He is concerned about terrorism and he isn't concerned about people

listening to his conversations.

[Daphne08]

7. I turned it on right before it ended, and a caller said the

same thing, that he didn't mind the government spying on and keeping his records, phone calls and emails! Huh????

Have these people no knowledge of history? Do we really want a Stasi here in America?

This is a dangerous slippery slope!!!

[C_U_L8R]

6. He's says it's okay

if the NSA wants to tap his phone and read his emails. Yeah.. right !!!


Whatever happened to republicans who wanted government
to stay out of people's personal lives.... I miss them

[orwell]

13. The Big Lie

Whoever is in the majority wants strong centralized government.

Whoever is in the minority wants devolved power (states rights, individual rights)

Its all about one human being's power over another.

And they call it democracy?

[librechik]

5. a reactionary old crank

who shills for his lovers, the Right Wing

conveniently, he is a "judge" a meaningless word, in his case, which gives him credibility he doesn't deserve.

[greiner3]

8. The bush appointee;

was more on our side than posner. I looked him up on the internet and he wrote a lot of books.

Here's one of his rulings;

In 1991, he ruled that a group of deputy sheriffs who, without a warrant or probable cause, assisted with the seizure of a mobile home had not violated the Fourth Amendment because, rather than entering the house, they had removed it whole. (This finding was reversed unanimously by the Supreme Court, whose sarcastic opinion called it "creative.")

More is here;

http://www.iconservatives.org.uk/richard_posner.htm

[MidwestTransplant]

10. wow. what a dick.

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. With government like that ...

who needs terrorists?

Cowards.

[Inland]

11. A source of constant frustration, but aside from that,

nobody much. His aspiration is to be a renaissance man. My aspiration for him is for written opinions where one can find the holding. All his opinions have five pages of discussion of legal opinions from 13th Century England to date followed by "But we not decide any of those matters in the instant case."

[Pirate Smile]

12. She also was holding Bill Owen's feet to the fire. He kept saying

incorrect things and she wouldn't let him finish - "with all do respect" while interrupting him to tell him he's an idiot.

That was pretty nice.

[oasis]

14. Posner finally showed his true colors near the end of the segment. He

opts for security over constitutional rights.

[oasis]

15. Modo says "Bush/Cheney have gone so far around the law that even

Republicans don't trust them".

[GatoLover]

16. Posner is a long-time law professor at the University of Chicago

and has sat on the federal appeals bench for almost twenty years. At one time he was considered a top right-wing candidate for the Supreme Court. Talk about a paper trail, though! He's written tons of books and if you look at a few of them on Amazon, you'll see that he is full of ideas that are too, shall I say, iconoclastic :eyes: even for the likes of Bushco.