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The Death List 2023

Thank you. Yes, I was aware that she was blamed for the decision.

Although I don't know if I agree, in the end, I don't count it as vice. And, as in almost all high court rulings, I have no idea of the legal framework of the arguments or issued at play. What I am confident of is that Justice O'Connor was not corrupt, and her ruling was based on law or precedent, no matter how injust its results. I live in a nation where popular vote is deliberately cirumvented by the system run by the two parties. It is inherently debased.

Neither candidate was a good choice. On one hand, Al Gore was undistinguished, and I do not think vice presidents, by their very nature, make good presidents. And G. W. Bush had not the credentials of his father, nor was he well qualified.

My opinion of the left-leaning press is that they are no more objective than anyone else, just better dressed up in convention and self-proclaimed neutrality.

O'Connor was a great justice, and served the nation very well. Her rulings, again and again, were well reasoned and just. Her legacy, long beyond the short lens of recent history, will be to her credit.
 
The article spends a great amount of time on just the Florida vote ruling, while literally ignoring her entire record and any opinions she authored, hardly a credit to The Guardian.

It's also transparently a slant whenever the press singles out a justice in the 5-4 splits, as it took all five justices to agree to make a ruling. Counting the so-called "swing" vote is a prejudicial device used by political machines to influence the popular opinion of both individual justices and the validity of their rulings.

As the article did state, even if somewhat dismissively, O'Connor was correctly seen as a centrist element, keeping the Court from aggressively pushing the nation one way or the other, as has become more the problem in recent years. How dearly we need centrism to prevail today.

It is true, although not much printed, that the Court continues to hand down rulings, whether dominated by the right or left of the political spectrum, that are not slam-dunks, reflecting more integrity that the Court's loudest critics would have us believe.

The U.S. Supreme Court, despite its turbulence or outspoken members, remains one of the world's highest regarded for not being a bought-and-paid-for proxy of the party or even the ruling class. When compared with the many courts over the planet, it is indeed a very high court.

For any students of U.S. law, here is a good short list of her most influential opinions:


It is important to note that she penned more than 300 opinions that ARE the opnions of the Court.
 
unloadonme said:
Alistair Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, from cancer aged 70.

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Former Chancellor Alistair Darling dies aged 70

Tributes from all sides to former Labour chancellor who steered the UK through 2008's economic crisis.
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Wasn't there a 'Darling' in one of the Blackadder tv-series?
 
unloadonme said:
Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, from a brain tumour aged 65.

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Benjamin Zephaniah: Writer, poet and Peaky Blinders actor dies aged 65

Zephaniah, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour, is remembered as a "beautiful human being".
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Benjamin was on Qi yesterday. It was his first appearance on the programme. The cast were talking about what they wanted to be buried with and Benjamin said he wanted to be buried with his first typewriter. As he said, "I can still be composing while I'm decomposing." He was also on an episode of Antiques Roadshow this week reciting one of his poems at the end of the show.

I wonder if he will get his wish with his typewriter?
 
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