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POPSEd Meese, Far-Right Reaganite, Hired By GOP To Coordinate Sotomayor Attack From the article: But Meese was known above all for his unbending belief that the conservative movement needed to change the culture of the Supreme Court. He famously declared in 1985 that judges should be "expected to resist any political effort to depart from the literal provisions of the Constitution." Later, he would suggest that it was within the power of the president to circumvent Supreme Court decisions. And we now know were that kind of thinking has lead us. Iraq War anyone?
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POPSSupreme Court makes age-bias suits harder to win The dissenters, led by the court's senior justice, John Paul Stevens, described the ruling as "especially irresponsible" and "an unabashed display of judicial lawmaking." Stevens seemed particularly upset that the court had decided a different issue than it had announced when it accepted the case last year. "Unfortunately, the majority's inattention to prudential court practices is matched by its utter disregard of our precedent and Congress' intent," he wrote.
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