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« on: July 06, 2005, 07:40:03 PM »
« edited: July 12, 2005, 07:41:33 PM by Angel of Death »
With O'Connor retiring, now would be a good time to find out how they are valued relatively here. Give a complete ranking of all nine justices (with ties allowed). The Condorcet ranking can then be calculated.
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2005, 07:52:40 PM »
I don't like these gimmicks much, but okay.

Thomas
Scalia
Rehnquist
O'Connor
Kennedy
Souter
Breyer
Ginsburg
Stevens
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« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2005, 08:58:46 PM »
Quote from: Aniquile Seguridad Social on July 06, 2005, 07:52:40 PM
I don't like these gimmicks much, but okay.

Thomas
Scalia
Rehnquist
O'Connor
Kennedy
Souter
Breyer
Ginsburg
Stevens

Close enough for me.
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« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2005, 09:03:05 PM »
Souter
O'Connor
Breyer
Stevens
Kennedy
Scalia
Ginsburg
Rehnquist
Thomas
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2005, 09:59:12 PM »
Stevens
Ginsburg
Breyer
Souter
Kennedy
O'Connor
Rehnquist
Scalia
Thomas
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2005, 10:12:53 PM »
Quote from: opebo on July 06, 2005, 09:59:12 PM
Stevens
Ginsburg
Breyer
Souter
Kennedy
O'Connor
Rehnquist
Scalia
Thomas

Good job copying mine in reverse.
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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2005, 10:14:41 PM »
Thomas, Scalia, and Rehnquist are the only ones worth anything.  The rest are disasters.
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2005, 10:25:30 PM »
Quote from: Aniquile Seguridad Social on July 06, 2005, 10:12:53 PM
Quote from: opebo on July 06, 2005, 09:59:12 PM
Stevens
Ginsburg
Breyer
Souter
Kennedy
O'Connor
Rehnquist
Scalia
Thomas

Good job copying mine in reverse.

Coincidentally you and I are diametrically opposed!
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« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2005, 11:08:42 PM »
« Edited: July 09, 2005, 04:20:37 PM by John Ford »
William Rehnquist
Clarence Thomas
John Paul Stevens
Antonin Scalia
Sandra Day O'Connor
Anthony Kennedy
Stephen Breyer
David Souter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2005, 03:51:34 AM »
Souter
Breyer
Kennedy
Stevens
O'Connor
Ginsburg
Rehnquist
Scalia
Thomas
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« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2005, 04:43:38 AM »
I don't particularly like any of them.

Renquist
Kennedy
Scalia
Breyer
Thomas
Souter
Ginsburg
O'Connor
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« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2005, 09:56:30 AM »
Quote from: Aniquile Seguridad Social on July 06, 2005, 07:52:40 PM
Thomas
Scalia
Rehnquist
O'Connor
Kennedy
Souter
Breyer
Ginsburg
Stevens
^^^^ Sounds about right to me, too.
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« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2005, 02:32:34 PM »
1. Rehnquist
2. Thomas
3. Scalia
4. O'Connor
5. Kennedy
6. The others... Tongue
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« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2005, 09:06:03 PM »
Ginsburg
Souter
Breyer
Stevens
O'Connor
Kennedy
Rehnquist
Thomas
Scalia
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« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2005, 09:07:48 PM »
Souter
Stevens
Breyer
Ginsberg
O'Connor
Kennedy
Rehnquist
Thomas
Scalia
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« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2005, 10:29:51 PM »
Ginsburg
Stevens
Breyer
Souter
Kennedy
O'Connor
Rehnquist
Thomas
Scalia
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« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2005, 10:32:47 PM »
Scalia
Thomas
Rehnquist
Kennedy
Breyer
Souter
Stevens
Ginsberg

(I would have slotted OConnor between Rehnquist and Kennedy)
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« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2005, 10:33:28 PM »
O'Connor is still a justice, and will be until her successor is confirmed.
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« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2005, 10:34:18 PM »
then count her where I would have put her
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« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2005, 10:35:02 PM »
I was just pointing it out to display my vast judicial insight and expansive knowledge. Or something.
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« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2005, 12:01:54 AM »
1) - Scalia (easily, hands down the best justice, not even close)

2-Tied) - O'Connor - Solid, rational, moderate
2-Tied) - Kennedy -  Swayed more by fact than idealogy

4) Souter - Capable of independant thought
5) Rehnquist - Gets 5th because the next 4 are so bad.

6) Breyer - utterly predictable.
7) Thomas - Utterly prediuctable, shallow

8-Tied) Stevens - New Deal idealogical activist zealot
8-Tied) Ginsburg - Limitations on the power of Government? - Jefferson was only kidding with those 10 amendments - if we read in the penumbra of the 14th, we see that 1-10 were not really passed or ratified....
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« Reply #21 on: July 08, 2005, 12:08:59 AM »

How so? He's the only justice that consistently votes to uphold the original meaning of the commerce clause (including when it's conservatives who want to stretch, as seen in the marijuana case).
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« Reply #22 on: July 08, 2005, 12:11:34 AM »
1.  O'Connor
2.  Breyer
3.  Souter
4.  Kennedy
5.  Stevens
6.  Ginsburg
7.  Scalia  (my opinion of him went up when I read the biography of Harry Blackmun and they discuss him in further detail)
8.  Rehnquist (see Scalia
9.   Thomas
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« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2005, 12:13:22 AM »
Ginsburg
Breyer
Stevens
Souter
Kennedy
O'Connor
Thomas
Rehnquist
Scalia
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« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2005, 07:22:51 AM »
Quote from: John Ford on July 06, 2005, 11:08:42 PM
William Rehnquist
Clarence Thomas
John Paul Stevens
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
Stephen Breyer
David Souter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You left out O'Connor.

Quote from: Secretary of Defense Ebowed on July 07, 2005, 04:43:38 AM
I don't particularly like any of them.

Renquist
Kennedy
Scalia
Breyer
Thomas
Souter
Ginsburg
O'Connor

You left out Stevens.
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