Good thing these guys weren't around in Brown vs Board of Education, and other cases. Gerrymandering is 100% about reducing voting rights. Which I guess this court has been working on for some time....

Yep, this is a really bad Supreme Court. Some of my legal friends and I were talking about the justices in general. There have been about 113 or so justices. So if were to rank all 113 only possibly Sotomeyer from the current court would crack the top 25% in the courts history. Right now the court has a lot of Van Devanter's on it, guys who hung around a long time but didn't really have much influence on future legal thinking. While the court has turned rightward, it's generally seen as the result of a political change rather than a judicial one with most of that credit going toward outside groups like the Federalist society pushing their judges onto the judiciary. We don't have original thinkers like Stevens, Kennedy and even Rehnquist. 

 

Yep, this is a really bad Supreme Court. Some of my legal friends and I were talking about the justices in general. There have been about 113 or so justices. So if were to rank all 113 only possibly Sotomeyer from the current court would crack the top 25% in the courts history. Right now the court has a lot of Van Devanter's on it, guys who hung around a long time but didn't really have much influence on future legal thinking. While the court has turned rightward, it's generally seen as the result of a political change rather than a judicial one with most of that credit going toward outside groups like the Federalist society pushing their judges onto the judiciary. We don't have original thinkers like Stevens, Kennedy and even Rehnquist. 

 

As much as I sometimes disagreed with his final decision on cases, I could always respect the method with which Kennedy came to a decision on cases. He didn't follow one ideology or party or anything or the sort. He stayed true to himself and his personal beliefs, informed through exhaustive, well-backed research. I can always respect that.