<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bottomMargin=0 leftMargin=3 rightMargin=3 topMargin=0>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=966323213-04072005><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>I suspect
that we can all agree that some of the justices are clowns ;-) and they are
clean.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=966323213-04072005><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>I also
suspect that Siarlys and I will sharply disagree about which
ones. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=966323213-04072005>
<P><FONT face="Kaufmann Bd BT" size=5>greenBubble</FONT> </P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>Don't be too sure of that. I find it ludicrous that the media, and various
pressure groups, keep casting Supreme Court justices, and federal appeals court
circuits, as "good" or "bad" or "liberal" or conservative" etc. ad
nauseum.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There are times when I thank God for Rehnquist and Scalia (as when they
rein in congress's use of the interstate commerce clause to give the feds
authority to pass a law about anything under the sun), and occasionally even
Thomas, who <EM>can </EM>be a bit of a clown. There are times when I am shocked
by Stevens. (For example, his dissent in <EM>Boy Scouts of America v. Dale</EM>,
when he made a detailed inquiry into whether and how opposition to gay
lifestyles is a part of the scouts' expressive message. Who cares? The important
principle, freedom of association, says that is none of the government's
business.) I would not have nominated Breyer, who is too pragmatic to be sitting
at the highest level intepreting a constitution -- I prefer Hugo Black's
unambiguous, "when the First Amendment says congress shall pass no law, it means
Congress shall pass NO law." But Breyer made the right call on the Texas ten
commandments case.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So, to keep this short, I really couldn't say any of the justices are
consistently clowns, and I could not with any accuracy classify them by
political polarity either.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Siarlys</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>