With Alito Federalist Society Dominates USSC

[Seamus]

Originally Posted by Fogny

The current U.S. Supreme Court includes prominent Federalist Society members and patrons, including Justices Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and the newly installed Chief Justice John Roberts. Nominee Samuel Alito is another Federalist Society member.

Dominate:

1: Rule, Control

2: To exert supreme determining or guiding influence on ...

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/dominates

I am a big fan of all of those mentioned mentioned above. That said, and assuming Judge Alito becomes Justice Alito, where is the fifth--and crucial!--vote? Did I misread something or have I forgot how to count again? Remind me: With 9 members on the Court, 4 is less than 5, right?

Incidentally, would this be a bad time to mention that Justice John Paul Stevens--arguably the Court's most liberal member, and certainly NOT a member of the Federalist Society--is 85 years old?

[Fogny]

Federalist Society Members and speakers

http://www.fed-soc.org/Press/participants-speakers.htm

[Seamus]

Originally Posted by Fogny

Federalist Society Members and speakers

http://www.fed-soc.org/Press/participants-speakers.htm

And the operative word there is and.

Please don't suggest for a moment that Justice Stephen Breyer (a Clinton appointee) and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (a former ACLU lawyer) are members of the Federalist Society.

[swampfox]

Originally Posted by Hildebrand

Not exactly. The conservatives today are the old liberals of yesterday, the type of people this nation was founded by. The extreme of conservatism (the old liberals) is libertarianism.

Fascism is anti-old liberal (anti-modern day conservative [republican/capitalist/free trade]), and fascism is anti-Communist. Mussolini created modern day fascism as a reform (heresy) of SOCIALISM. Fascism takes some of the ideas of socialism and reforms them with spirit of nationalism. Communism takes socialism and surrounds it with globalism. That is why many people view fascism and communism share opposite sides of the same radical coin.

Socialists are the new liberals, opposed to old liberalism.

Excellent summation, though the new liberals are also characterized by and infused with moral relativism. And both the communist and Nazi forms of totalitarianism employ government sponsored terror and isolation to impose their nihilistic ideology on the governed.