Comments on: Supreme Court Justices Are Influential Political Figures http://dailywrit.com/2007/11/02/supreme-court-justices-are-influential-political-figures/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:28:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: AJ http://dailywrit.com/2007/11/02/supreme-court-justices-are-influential-political-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-617 AJ Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:10:05 +0000 http://dailywrit.com/2007/11/02/supreme-court-justices-are-influential-political-figures/#comment-617 I am not sure why Ruth Bader was omitted. Is it possible she is far too skewed on too many issues to convince a single camp to follow her? Kennedy, while he is influential for the reasons that you suggest, must also be omitted from a list of conservatives or from a list of liberals for those same reasons. That he garners influence by virtue of being courted as a tie-breaker vote in close decisions marks him decidedly as a centrist, even though he has sided with the conservatives more often than not recently. I am not sure why Ruth Bader was omitted. Is it possible she is far too skewed on too many issues to convince a single camp to follow her?

Kennedy, while he is influential for the reasons that you suggest, must also be omitted from a list of conservatives or from a list of liberals for those same reasons. That he garners influence by virtue of being courted as a tie-breaker vote in close decisions marks him decidedly as a centrist, even though he has sided with the conservatives more often than not recently.

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