#David Souter

[politicaldilfs]

David Souter, Joe Biden, Warren Rudman

#David Souter #Joe Biden #Warren Rudman

[qindil]

UN’INGIUSTIZIA SUPREMA (PARTE III)

Fonte: Center For An Informed America Di Dave McGowan13 dicembre 2000 “La decisione 5-4 della Corte Suprema di sospendere tutti gli ulteriori riconteggi è a dir poco un colpo di stato giudiziario”.Theodore P. Seto, professore della Loyola Law School Il verdetto, come si suol dire, è stato emesso. La più alta Corte del Paese, l’arbitro ultimo dello “Stato di diritto”, si è pronunciato. E con…

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#Al Gore #Anthony Kennedy #Antonin Scalia #Clarence Thomas #Corruzione #Corte Suprema #Dave McGowan #David Souter #Deep State #Diritti Costituzionali #Elezioni truccate #George W. Bush #Giustizia #Joseph Klock #Politica #Stephen Breyer #Televisione #Theodore Olson #Tradimento #USA

[thefugitivesaint]

David Henry Souter (1862-1935), 'Untitled', no date Source

#david henry souter #australian artists #political cartoons #antiwar cartoons #australian illustrators #vintage illustration #death #war

[tomoleary]

David Henry Souter World War I recruitment campaign for nurses

#David Henry Souter #World War I #red cross

[spookyfoxdreamer]

#64 years old David Hackett Souter on October 1st 2003 ad sheep/goat year

[the-cricket-chirps]

David Henry Souter

Australian Red Cross Poster: Help

ca. 1914-1918

Printed by William Brooks & Co. Ltd, Sydney

#dh souter #red cross #vintage posters #Australian Red Cross #australian #Red Cross nurse #nurse #nurses #nursing #wwi #wwi history #history #australian history #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #aesthetic #beauty #tumblrstyle

[tomorrowusa]

Sandra Day O'Connor died Friday at the age of 93. She was the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court. Although she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, her approach was more centrist than his and she was often the swing vote on the court.

After her retirement from SCOTUS in 2006, President George W. Bush appointed the hard right Samuel Alito to replace O'Connor. In 2022 Alito was the driving force behind the dismantling of Roe v. Wade.

Justice O’Connor joined the controlling opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that, to the surprise of many, reaffirmed the core of the constitutional right to abortion established in 1973 in Roe v. Wade. To overrule Roe “under fire in the absence of the most compelling reason to re-examine a watershed decision,” she wrote in a joint opinion with Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and David H. Souter, “would subvert the court’s legitimacy beyond any serious question.” Last year, the court did overrule Roe, casting aside Justice O’Connor’s concern for precedent and the court’s public standing. In his majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Alito wrote that Roe and Casey had “enflamed debate and deepened division.” Justice O’Connor also wrote the majority opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 decision upholding race-conscious admissions decisions at public universities, suggesting that they would not longer be needed in a quarter-century. In striking down affirmative action programs in higher education in June, the Supreme Court beat her deadline by five years. [ ... ] Justice O’Connor was also an author of a key campaign finance opinion, McConnell v. Federal Election Commission in 2003. A few years after Justice Alito replaced her, the Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote in 2010, overruled a central portion of that decision in the Citizens United case.nge? A few days later, at a law school conference, Justice O’Connor reflected on the development. “Gosh,” she said, “I step away for a couple of years and there’s no telling what’s going to happen.” [ ... ] She held the crucial vote in many of the court’s most polarizing cases, and her vision shaped American life for her quarter century on the court. Political scientists stood in awe at the power she wielded. “On virtually all conceptual and empirical definitions, O’Connor is the court’s center — the median, the key, the critical and the swing justice,” Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn and Lee Epstein and two colleagues wrote in a study published in 2005 in The North Carolina Law Review shortly before Justice O’Connor’s retirement.

Let this be a reminder that the direction of the Supreme Court depends on the President who appoints its members and the Senate which confirms them.

While we may not have warm and fuzzy feelings about Ronald Reagan, two of his three† appointments to SCOTUS were centrists. Of the six current justices appointed to the court by Republican presidents, one is a conservative and the other five are hardline reactionaries.

When voting for president or senator, we are indirectly also voting for SCOTUS justices who could be on the court for decades. We ought to keep that in mind when we hear people suggesting that we should cast "protest votes" for impotent third parties which have no chance of getting elected.

Remember that no 2024 Republican presidential candidate will nominate to the court somebody as relatively moderate as Sandra Day O'Connor.

† I count Rehnquist, who Reagan elevated from Associate to Chief Justice, as a Nixon appointee.

#sandra day o'connor #us supreme court #scotus #roe v. wade #the sanctity of reproductive freedom #samuel alito #republicans #election 2024

[lovelypearls]

30 Days of Aphrodite

Day 13: Share your favorite piece of art that depicts Aphrodite or reminds you of Aphrodite.

I already shared 2 on one of the other posts for this challenge so I'll share a few more!

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan - Alexandre Charles Guillemot

Mars Being Disarmed by Venus - Jaques-Louis David

this painting - flightlessartist on tumblr

Venus Crossing the Sea in a Shell - Giuseppe Bezzuoli

Love and Empathy - Tuco Amalfi

The Birth of Venus - John Bulloch Souter (I marked this one with the wrong artist originally)

#aphrodite #aphrodite worship #aphrodite april #30 days of aphrodite #helpol #hellenic polytheism #paintings

[theropoda]

i want to see the cat torturing the mouse.

i did a little digging and this is a magazine cover by david henry souter

#art #hoisanwa #asks

[cleoselene]

I haven't been able to find my cell phone (this is normal, you can call me David Souter with my opinion on modern cell phone use) so I can't take a pic but i am listening to

Frank in PINK! this album is Amy's best imo

#amy winehouse #the album is worth it for Fuck Me Pumps alone

[batboyblog]

You better vote the Supreme Court

So it's March 2023 right now, hi to people in the future, right now there's a fair bit of talk around the US Presidential election next year. I'm sorry to any non-Americans who might read this. But for us Americans, we're hearing speculation about if Trump will be the Republican nominee or Ron DeSantis and if President Biden will run for a second term.

I just want to get everyone thinking about an issue thats likely to not get enough coverage in the 2024 election and not effect enough people's votes (because it never seems to) The Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed for a life time term its not uncommon for Justices to serve for 20 to 30 years on the Court which gets to rule on all aspects of Americans lives.

In March of 2016 Hillary Clinton predicted that the next President would get to appoint as many as 4 Justices to the Court. She was sadly not taken seriously at the time. President Trump ended up getting to appoint 3 Justices empowering a 6-3 Conservative majority and appointing two of the most radically conservative Justices we've ever ever had.

Thankfully we've elected a Democratic President, Joe Biden so that 84 year old liberal Justice Stephen Breyer was able to retire be replaced by the Court's first black woman Justice, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (who is 52, so likely will be on the court for 30+ years)

Many people will say the Court is hopeless as none of the Justices are now in their 80s (or older) so there's no likelihood of a change during a second Biden term in office. I don't think thats true or at least not an open and shut surety.

Right now the two most conservative Justices, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito are 74 and 72 respectively. At the end of Biden's current term they'll be 76 and 74 and at the end of the next Presidential term they'll be 80 and 78 respectively. If we look at the ages when Justices have left the Court in the last 20 years:

2005: Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Death age 80 2006: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Retired age 75 2009: Justice David Souter: Retired age 69 2010: Justice John Paul Stevens: Retired age 89 2016: Justice Antonin Scalia: Death age 79 2018: Justice Anthony Kennedy: Retired age 82 2020: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Death age 87 2022: Justice Stephen Breyer: Retired age 83

for an average age of leaving the court in the 21st Century of 80 years old... Now I don't expect that Justices Thomas and Alito if they're alive would willingly retire under a Democratic President, however I think it's nearly a sure thing that like Justices O'Connor, Souter, Stevens, Kennedy and Breyer at least one of them if not both would retire under a Republican President who would then appointed a radically conservative Justice in their 40s who we'd have for 35 to 40 years. While Justices Thomas and Alito might want to hang on till a Republican President even if they don't die they might not be able to keep going like Justice Thurgood Marshall's health failed and he was forced to retire (and died 16 months later) or Justice William O. Douglas who suffered a stroke and was pushed into retirement by the other 8 Justices.

So In short if you want any hope for a liberal, at even "not radically conservative" Court in our life times it's very very important to vote the Court next year no matter who the nominees are

#Supreme Court #SCOTUS #2024 election

[qindil]

UN’INGIUSTIZIA SUPREMA (PARTE II)

Fonte: Center For An Informed America Di Dave McGowan12 dicembre 2000 Ancora una volta la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti, universalmente acclamata dalla stampa e dagli esperti come un organismo onorevole e inappuntabile al di sopra della politica, si è impantanata nel fango elettorale. E ancora una volta la Corte ha deciso di non trasmettere i suoi procedimenti in televisione, una posizione…

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#Al Gore #Anthony Kennedy #Antonin Scalia #Clarence Thomas #Corruzione #Corte Suprema #Dave McGowan #David Boies #David Souter #Deep State #Diritti Costituzionali #George W. Bush #Giustizia #Joseph Klock #Politica #Stephen Breyer #Televisione #Theodore Olson #Tradimento #USA

[carolyn-b]

[The Washington Post] David Souter showed the Supreme Court how to free itself from politics

David Souter showed the Supreme Court how to free itself from politics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/21/supreme-court-term-limits-politics/

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday.

More iPhones are sold every day than people are born.

80% of all serious or fatal car crashes are caused by men.

American women’s confidence in their bodies peaks at age 74.

25% of Britons do less than 30 minutes of physical activity a week.

The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle not the water.

In some species of spider, females are 125 times heavier than males.

Jellyfish can learn from experience, even though they don’t have a brain.

92% of people type things into Google to see if they spelled them correctly.

The middle finger originated in Ancient Greece as a symbol for anal intercourse.

Due to geographical differences in gravity, you weigh more in Illinois than Indiana.

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol before writing can actually enhance your creativity.

Roughly six billion people on Earth own a phone but only 4.5 billion have access to a working toilet.

A fruitcake from Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1911 was found in 2017 in ‘almost’ edible condition.

Earlier this year, a Harvard researcher of dishonesty was put on leave due to allegations of fraud in her work.

98% of Europeans live in areas where the air is more polluted than the World Health Organization believes is safe.

In ‘The Lion King’, Mufasa's roar when he saves Simba and Nala from the hyenas is a combination of a grizzly, a tiger and an F-16.

It's actually a myth that camels store water in their humps. Instead, camels use their humps to store energy-rich fat deposits.

Only a third of the borders in sub-Saharan Africa have been officially ‘delimited’ - where both countries agree on exactly where they are.

In 1995, a drunk Boris Yeltsin was found outside the White House wearing only his underpants and trying to hail a taxi so he could get pizza.

In 1920, Clarence Blethen retired hurt from a baseball match after biting himself on the bottom with the false teeth he kept in his back pocket.

The animal with the largest penis for its size (the barnacle) lives on the face of the animal with the largest penis in absolute terms (the blue whale).

Due to other countries registering there for tax reasons, Panama has the largest shipping fleet in the world, greater than China’s and the USA’s combined.

Former US Supreme Court justice David Souter had to move house because his previous home wasn’t structurally sound enough to support all his books.

In 1980, the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe and were convicted.

In 2022, the average speed of a car in central London was around 9 miles per hour. In 1908, the average speed of a horse-drawn carriage was around 10 miles per hour.

The Popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy named Frank Epperson, who inadvertently left a glass of soda water with a stirring stick outside overnight in freezing weather.

‘Misdirected amplexus’ (good name for a band) is the term for male frogs gripping onto and trying to mate with inappropriate partners: a frog from another species, an inanimate object, a fish.

Every day from 1899 until 1918, the Paris edition of the New York Herald published the same letter from ‘Old Philadelphia Lady’ living in Paris who asked how to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius and back. In total, the letter was published 6,718 times.

In 2016, a Somalian suicide bomber brought explosives onto Daallo Airlines Flight 159. Twenty minutes after take-off, the explosives successfully detonated and blasted a hole in the side of the plane. The bomber was instantly sucked out and was the only fatality.

Every morning, Napoleon would stand naked and pour a bottle of eau de cologne over his head and then rub his chest and hands with a rough brush. His back and shoulders were rubbed by a valet, and if the rubbing wasn’t vigorous enough, Napoleon would shout ‘Stronger, like an ass!’

Centralia, Pennsylvania, a former coal mining town, has been burning for almost 60 years. In 1962, the town council decided to burn a landfill, unaware it connected to underground mine shafts. This ignited a coal seam, which continued to burn. Pennsylvania gave up after spending $7 million trying to put out the fire in the 1990s. Despite the dangers, a few residents still live there. With coal supplies under the town, the fire could burn for another 250 years.

Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.

#mixcloud #mi soul #dj #music #new blog #lockdown #coronavirus #books #democracy #brexit #cronyism #election #radio #tuesdaymotivation

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.17

Beer Birthdays

John Fitzgerald (1838)

John Ewald Siebel (1845)

Theodore R. Helb (1851)

Stan Hieronymus (1948)

George Hummel (1954)

Gayle Goschie (1955)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Warren Burger; U.S. Supreme Court chief justice (1907)

Ken Kesey; writer (1935)

Baz Luhrmann; Australian film director (1962)

Bryan Singer; film director (1965)

William Carlos Williams; poet (1883)

Famous Birthdays

Anne Bancroft; actor (1931)

George Blanda; Oakland Raiders QB, K (1927)

Orlando Cepeda; San Francisco Giants 1B (1937)

Kyle Chandler; actor (1965)

Elizabeth Coblentz; Amish Cookbook author (1936)

Jerry Colonna; comedian (1904)

Pat Crowley; actor (1929)

Phil Jackson; Chicago Bulls/L.A. Lakers coach (1945)

Hope Larsen; comic book artist (1982)

J.W. Marriott; hotel magnate (1900)

Jeff MacNelly; cartoonist (1947)

Roddy McDowall; actor (1928)

Frank O'Connor; Irish writer (1903)

Robert B. Parker; writer (1932)

Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson; actor (1951)

John Ritter; actor (1948)

Rita Rudner; comedian (1955)

Daniella Rush; porn actor (1976)

John Rutledge; U.S. Supreme Court chief justice (1939)

David H. Souter; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1939)

Thomas Stafford; astronaut (1930)

Mary Stewart; writer (1916)

Fee Waybill; rock singer (1950)

Hank Williams, Sr.; singer, songwriter (1923)

#Birthdays

[ceekbee]