Friday, June 02, 2006
rhetoric vs reality
i don't know what to say. i know that i felt disillusioned and sad when i read this and i guess it just reaffirms the way things are in america today. don't get me wrong- i am a staunch constitutionalist- and i don't think anyone needs to tamper with it. but apparently, the supreme court doesn't feel the same way about protecting the bill of rights and civil liberties. this action is going to have lasting repercussions forever.
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It looks like a sad reality ahead for many of our rights. The newest members of the Supreme court seem to want us to have freedom based on the view of the neocons.
Also as sad, most people won't even know about this example showing the loss of our most basic freedom, freedom of speech, or be bothered by it because it didn't happen to them in their front yard.
Betmo, do you know who wrote the dissenting opinion? do you know who voted for the majority opinion?...im curious
...a 5-4 decision in which new Justice
Samuel Alito cast the deciding vote.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority.
Justice David H. Souter's lengthy dissent- Souter was joined by Justices
John Paul Stevens and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice
Stephen Breyer also supported Ceballos, but on different grounds.
The ruling upheld the position of the Bush administration, which had joined the district attorney's office in opposing absolute free-speech rights for whistleblowers.
President Bush's two nominees, Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, signed onto Kennedy's opinion but did not write separately.
The case is Garcetti v. Ceballos, 04-473.
i cut/pasted excerpts directly from the article for reference. looks like bush's appointees are doing what they got paid to do.
May 30 2006 Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed a dissenting opinion. Souter, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Stevens and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
the official court record at:
supremecourtus.gov/docket/04-473.htm
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