Brothers'

Good luck Barack. You've got a lot of idiots in your way, but you've got 70% of the country behind you.

Deport the 30%.

Nancy Pelosi aint no idiot.

Obama's getting sworn in today and all i got was this lousy Morning Docket.

3 - How about deporting 30% of the 70% that are illegal immigrants.

international court? them and what army?

This onion article says it ALL. They need to do a follow-up story after the Inauguration.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive

6 - i'll take an illegal immigrant over a legal ignorant any day.

btw, nice made up stats. keep convincing yourself that your belief system is not a throwback to the stone age.

6 - As a Native American, you're the illegal immigrant.

Deport whitie.

" A federal judge granted Cheney discretion over which records of his actions as Vice President have to be preserved in the national archives. Good idea. Surely we can count on Dick Cheney not to destroy any documents that make him look bad. Especially since he has been so truthful and transparent in the past"

Maybe he can get Sandy Berger to look after his national archive documents?

3, I don't understand why you are so bitter. Despite now having the Presidency, you still feel the need to spew hatred...unbelievable.

Am I the only one who is extremely bothered by elected Wisconsin Supreme Court judges? The electorate is, on the whole, an ignorant and unlearned lot not fit to decide on the merits of jurists. (though they can get some things right- see today DC, noon).

3- for one day, let's try to not be autoadmit.com, please

12 - After 2 years of wasted government with you retards impeaching a President over sex; after 8 years of a stolen Presidency, after war crimes, no WMD's, a shattered economy, and only one prosecution (Scooter Libby)...we have a lot to be bitter about and a lot of time to make up for.

13, I presume you also believe that Bush was not the real president in 2001 because he did not win the popular vote? So the electorate is an ignorant and unlearned lot, unless they make a decision that you agree with, like 53% voting for Obama? How principled.

16, I presume you meant 15. Bush was not the President in 2001. There was a Constitutional process for resolving contested elections of which the Supreme Court had no legitimate part. Hence, W was not the real "President". He would have been had the Constitutional process been followed and Lieberman would have been VP. But since the Court chose to ignore the Constitution in favor of partisanship, W was never really president.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive

15, you're right. Socialism is going to fix everything.

19 - I hope so. Capitalism has failed time and time again.

17, you are an epic retard, which you would discover for yourself once you read the post at 13 that I (16) was responding to.

21 - Yep, epic. My bad.

20, USA v. USSR. South Korea v. North Korea. West Germany v. East Germany. Modern China v. pre-1978 China. How is Cuba doing these days?
Sorry, did you say something about a system failing time and time again?

20 -in that case, why engage in half measures? Let's do some full-fledged communism.

13 - I agree. The ironic thing is the last challenger to a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice won by calling him soft on crime (silly Constitution).

The business interests in Wisconsin are unusually scummy where judicial elections are concerned.

"The 213 families in China whose babies got sick from drinking tainted milk brought the case to Chinese Supreme Court."

Do you think Eliza intentionally left the "the" out of this sentence? Like "Oh, me chinaman, me go to Supreme Court, me like put pee pee in your coke."

ATL is so racist.

I fail to see what any of this has to do with the rumored Cahill layoffs.

14 = racist mormon

What is with the rumored layoffs at Pitney Bowes? I thought they were a solid shop.

BHO = TTT

"The International Court has no standing in Texas"...superb. What is going to happen if an American national is arrested in the middle east, subjected to there version of "due process" and executed? Guess Scalia and his buddies will howl...but the International Court has no standing in Texas only...it applies to the middle ages...er middle east.....the original framers of the constitution told us that...during one of the private conversations we regularly have....

17, can you explain how the Constitutional process would have made Bush president and Lieberman VP in 2001?

31, aka Captain 1L, the International Court is a treaty court. It has nothing to do with the US Constitution.

But don't let facts get in the way of your pontification.

33- 31 here. Two law degrees and 3 bar passages from 2 countries by the time I was 29. Best speaker at Jessup. V- 50 law firm. Try not to feel stupid about your post. We could do this debate and I'll wipe your stupid arse. But don't let these facts get in the way of your ignorant pontification.

16:
I favor direct popular election of Political leaders, as I think it usually brings the best political leaders to the fore (thus I was aggrieved by the 2000 shit show that just left an 8 year skid mark across our country).
Judges should not be political. While some political check is necessary over them, they need to be heavily insulated from the whims of popular political pressure to preserve the Constitution and uphold the law. This is of particular import when the popular political whim of the day runs counter to the law and the Constitution.
-13

Damn 33, you just got served! 34 isn't "captain 1-L." He went to law school twice! That makes him at least Real Admiral 1-L. Word to your mother!

31, 34- Excellent point.

36, I know. 34 has such impressive credentials. He got a JD and an LLM eight years after university! Jessup, won by such powerhouses as Case Western and University of Namibia. Passing more than one bar! A Vault 50 firm, like McDermoTTT, DLA Piper, or Baker and McKenzie! Actually, he probably couldn't get in to the latter two, since his prestige whore self would have desperately wanted to say V-45 firm.
I bow down to his greatness.

Mr. Eurodouche, the problem with your debate challenge is that the Supreme Court has already decided this issue. Even that great conservative originalist, John Paul Stevens, voted against you. Sorry bro.

lol. "Their" is no way 31/34 can possibly be a US lawyer. I'm guessing he's got a belizian law degree, and perhaps one from eastern europe somewhere. he's probably a "special counsel" or some glorigied para in a random special purpose v50 office in some backwater.

This is amazing....even after winning the Presidency and at the eve of an inauguration that promises to "bring people together" the crazy liberals with Bush Derangement Syndrome come to the fore....

Its over guys!!! Bush was elected 8 years ago! Sorry! Drop it and move on with your lives. I honestly hope Barack does well but if he doesnt and his socialist policies sink our economy it will NOT be Bush's fault, no matter how much you would like it to be.

FYI - if you want to look to the real culprits of this recession and housing bubble collapse, look to Sen. Dodd, Barney Frank, Chuckie Rangel, and Nancy Pelosi. NOT Bush.

31/34, here's a hint from a real US lawyer. Bragging that you have two law degrees is not a good idea, except possibly if one of them is an NYU tax LLM. Especially since you "forgot" to mention the rankings of your law schools, right before you mention your Jessup and firm rankings.
It's like saying that you have two high school diplomas.

40, these people are principled and have long memories. They still believe that John Quincy Adams stole the presidency in 1824 and don't think Rutherford Hayes was elected president in 1876, right? Right?

Who's up for re-fighting the 2000 election? Seems like a good use of time.

"International Courts" ---- WHO CARES?

The U.S. Constitution is the "supreme law of the land."

Repeat it.

31/34 here- gentlemen I apologize for the delay, but I didn't get around to trolling the site till later.

# 38, -It was actually an LLB and a JD old boy, the ABA does not allow you to sit for the bar in multiple jurisdictions in the US with a "foreign" law degree and an LLM. Not that I expect you to know that, arguing on facts does not seem to be a strong point on ATL. Also, it is true that Case wins Jessup occasionally but so do Columbia and Oxford. Case (where I am not from) won it last year on the basis of a terrific team beating most of the T-14 schools in the process. US News rankings matter little in competitions where the judges do not know who they are marking.

#39- see above. Also, I practice law in NYC. Dumbass texans may consider it a backwater, I have not reached a point where I do.

#41- Real US lawyer? So am I. It is hardly a big deal you self entitled douche.

#36/38/41- sucks does it not? To have a president the rest of the world applauds instead of throwing shoes at? The best way to respond is to whine on ATL. Keep it up- the comments are pretty amusing. There are years of pain ahead.

The ICJ is much more than a "treaty court". The US Supreme Court and the consti does not over ride specific, normative int'l laws....try reading Filartega.

Feel free to point out any further typos. Atleast I spell colour the way it should be, eh?

Now let the poison flow, I am done with this thread.

45 - You're right, I only called you "Real Admiral 1-L" because I am upset about Barack Obama. I have no idea how in the world you could come to such an amazing assumption, but congrats either way.

-36

P.S. Does everyone get it? The Rear Admiral 1-L made an assumption. HAHAHA.

45, then why don't you tell us the ranking of your US law school? What a conspicuously absent fact in the midst of all your other bragging, such as about being at a V 50 firm. Two JD-level law degrees, wow!

P.S. Filartega is about a claim under a US statute. Show me an example where international laws are self-executing without US legislative action, thanks.

So, the Court agrees with former VP Cheney that he has the right to decide which records are preseved in the archives and which are not. The sarcastic comment from ATL suggesting that Cheney will destroy documents is just further manufactured hysteria from the Hate Bush club-of which-sadly-ATL is a member. Precisely what did Cheney lie about ATL? As far as transparency goes, it seems to me that the Bush administration has been subjected to quite a bit of scrutiny over the last 8 years. Let's see how transparent the Obama Administration is. Prediction: not so much.