Obama, Biden to Pay Call on Supreme Court.

[elleng]

Source: WaPo

"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will welcome President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph Biden -- two senators who voted against his confirmation -- to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, the court announced tonight.

The court said Roberts, who will administer the oath of office to Obama next Tuesday, invited the pair to meet with him and the associate justices in the ceremonial West Conference Room, and maybe take a tour of the place. Reporters and photographers are not invited." >>>


Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2009/01/13/obama_biden_to_pay_call_on_sup.html?hpid=sec-politics

[bluestateguy]

1. Obama and Biden should talk with Roberts, Alito and Scalia about the virtues of retirement

Pensions, golf, grandchildren, loads of free time...

[Demeter]

2. and the Threats of Impeachment

[seemslikeadream]

3. That would be a good start

THIS IS NO JOKE

[bluestateguy]

4. Thomas Jefferson tried that on the whole judiciary

It was, on the whole, a disaster.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. I've had this feeling for awhile

that Scalia is gonna get out during an Obama administration. It goes beyond wishful thinking, but we shall see.

[Bake]

6. Roberts and Alito are kinda young

But perhaps they could be "persuaded." Hehe.

Scalia is getting long in the tooth, however. And he's still not happy about being passed over for the CJ post.

Bake

[toopers]

7. John Paul Stevens Anthony Kennedy, David Souter . . .

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer should all be thrown out!

[Milspec]

8. Really why's that

[toopers]

9. Because of their position on Kelo vs Connecticut!

[elleng]

10. Explain, at least.

.

[toopers]

11. An individual lost their property because the Supreme Court . . .

felt that the state had the right to use the power of eminent domain to take the property and give it to a private developer.

[elleng]

12. As in,

'the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

[toopers]

13. Yes