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zappaisgod
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Re: Enough is ENOUGH [Re: sweeper54]
#19176256 - 11/22/13 07:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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What does that have to do with establishing this contention.
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Republicants want to play games and hold up nominees for a year or more and then have them unanimously confirmed.
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Re: Enough is ENOUGH [Re: setb]
#19176271 - 11/22/13 07:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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And I say again
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sweeper54 said: And then the republicants doubled the number of filibuster

The republican'ts have clearly demonstrated that they do not want anything to do with the Black man in the White House and will go to any lengths to stop anything he wants.
NUKE'M HARRY AND NUKE'M HARD!
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setb
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I just don't think this guy understands that the senate was designed to produce gridlock. The senate acts as a check to the power of the executive.
Well, not anymore I guess. I suppose the OP is ok with this because it is "his" party that is making this unprecedented power grab. Little does the op realize that the leadership of "his" party doesn't give a flying bleep about people like him. Such is the folly of the two party system, it has degenerated into something like a good damn sports rivalry. George Washington was right. We are screwed.
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setb
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Re: Enough is ENOUGH [Re: setb] 2
#19176302 - 11/22/13 07:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Oh boy, graphs without any kind of backing and accusations of racism *yawn*.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Enough is ENOUGH [Re: setb] 2
#19176497 - 11/22/13 08:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Obama was rated the most liberal Senator. Republicans were elected to stop him. Opposing Obama is their electoral duty to their constituents and his race is a smoke screen for assholes who cannot come to grips with the liberal cunt's grotesque incompetence.
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Re: Enough is ENOUGH [Re: sweeper54]
#19176669 - 11/22/13 09:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, so? It looks like the Republicans didn't obstruct shit.
THEY WHAT THE F#CK DO YOU CALL IT?
I call it tryting to Vet out asshats that are getting appointed to judgeships not because they are necessarily good and fair judges but because they are political hacks who tow the party line. Both sides do it.
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The real problem is the lifetime tenure for district court judges. I understand the logic for the SCOTUS, but I definitely don't for trial judges.
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Re: Enough is ENOUGH [Re: Enlil]
#19176911 - 11/22/13 11:13 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Enlil said: The real problem is the lifetime tenure for district court judges. I understand the logic for the SCOTUS, but I definitely don't for trial judges.
Whats the difference between a 'trial judge' as opposed to another kind of judge?
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District judges are trial judges. In the federal system, a district court is a trial level court...basically, the nuts and bolts court where shit gets done. Lawsuits are filed there. Trials happen there. Criminal cases are brought there, etc. Above the district courts are the Circuit Courts of Appeal. There are 13 circuit courts and they hear appeals from the district courts in that circuit's geographic region. Circuit courts are appellate courts. They don't hold trials. They only hear appeals. Above the circuit courts is the SCOTUS...you already know about that court. It also doesn't hold trials (except in exceptional cases)...it is an appellate court as well.
The reason the SCOTUS has lifetime tenure is so that the judges don't have to worry about the popularity of their decisions when rendering opinions about our Constitution(which is specifically designed NOT to be easily changed)
Trial courts, on the other hand, don't make binding precedent, so there's no need for them to have that amount of judicial independence. They SHOULD be more accountable to the people.
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Re: Enough is ENOUGH [Re: Enlil]
#19177181 - 11/23/13 12:38 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i thought a decision by any court could become a precendent?
Also, so if a case is heard in an appelate court, and they say 'well, this guy was convicted wrongly because they used tainted evidence' or something like that, what happens then? Say if they overturn the conviction, does the lower court try him again?
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Possibly. The appellate court could just dismiss the case outright, or they could alter the judgment, depending on the circumstances.
And no, a trial court's decision isn't precedential over any other court. The only precedential effect is has is under the "law of the case doctrine" wherein a court's decision is binding on that same court for future decisions in that same case.
Even a circuit court of appeals decision is only binding on courts in that circuit. It isn't even binding on state courts unless it is based on federal law or the constitution.
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