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usregimechange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:31 PM Original message |
What happens if a Justice gets Alzheimers but won't resign? |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. You mean, like Thomas and Scalia? |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. if their incapacity to perform their duties could be proved |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. WOULD the (Republican) Senate? Depends how the justice starts voting... |
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longship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. Impeachment |
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BlueJac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. You mean when they forget to resign? |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. They eat jelly beans and smile for the camera |
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CityDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. William O Douglas |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 01:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Douglas was a sharp thinker. If you have evidence he was of unsound .. |
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cmkramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 07:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Controversy |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. In the past justices have been pressured to step down by colleagues |
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Rhiannon12866 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
10. How about if this happened to a U.S. president?! |
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Humor_In_Cuneiform (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 08:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Gee that is just so |
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liberaliraqvet26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
11. ST RAYGUN had alzheimers and was in the white house... |
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Gyre (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'll bite. You get crazy laws like the emminent domain one? n/t |
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dogman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. You wait for nature, just like Rehnquist. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
14. Nothing. Still a perfectly good USSC judge. nt |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. The only precedent we have is Poppy stepping in for Raygun. |
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