Xrlq is making a chart of how Roberts' confirmation will change/not change the status quo.

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Isn't that a Beatles tune?

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The time has come.

Via Insty.

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So it looks like Bush will have to appoint his strict constructionist and his moderate to the Supreme Court more or less in tandem. Which will spare us a lot of legislative fireworks.

A shame. I was looking forward to the fight, in a certain way.

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Commenting on this post, wherein Patterico takes the wood to the L.A. Times, as is his wont, Dean Esmay discusses all the overwrought commentary on Justice O'Conner:

I am rather amused at all the gushing praise we're seeing from much of the press about what a wonderful wise Solomonic moderate Sandra Day O'Connor was . . . .

My only question: where were all these people who are now praising her as wise, virtuous, brilliantly moderate, etc. when she came down with the majority on Bush v. Gore? Somehow I doubt all the people slobbering over her now were all that friendly to her then.

Ah, but that was different. For one week in 2000, she was G.W.'s ho. Now she's a saint.

My take? Glad you asked: far preferable to lose O'Conner before Rehnquist. Once they both retire, it'll be a wash, since Bush is going to appoint a conservative this time, and a centrist to replace Rehnquist. And there's going to be a bloodbath in the Senate over something that won't ultimately change the ideological composition of the Court.

A friend of mine asks me, "won't abortion be illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned?"

"No," I tell him. "And it won't be overturned, either. Not within the next ten years, anyway."

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Iowahawk discusses some of the Supreme Court's recent reliance on law in other nations.

He seems a little tart about it, too. Slighly, um . . . snarky.

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