Another SC Justice likely to announce retirement soon.

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John Paul Stevens.

 

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I wonder who the idiot will appoint to this seat?

Al Sharpton?

 

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I wonder who the idiot will appoint to this seat?

Al Sharpton?

The reason no one laughed at your joke is that Al might be preferable to most American's over anyone mentioned on Obama's short list.

(I'm relieved that Koh isn't mentioned but heck, that could mean he will be the one nominated.)

Here is an example of the thinking of one of the possible candidates for nomination mentioned in the above link.

Cass Sunstein.

Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done.
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“More than a few people object to the idea of ‘presuming’ anything when it comes to such a sensitive matter. For these reasons we think that the best choice architecture for organ donations is mandated choice.”
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“The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made [for them] by someone else,”