David Souter Retiring, Obama gets to make first SCOTUS pick

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I'm not sure who is anti-compassion when combined with application of the law; some of us are perhaps afraid of compassion used as a standard on its own or a substitute for application of the law.

Despite any media-speak to the contrary, there's no realistic possibility that this would happen at the level of courts we're talking about (i.e. federal appellate and the Supreme Court).

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Despite any media-speak to the contrary, there's no realistic possibility that this would happen at the level of courts we're talking about (i.e. federal appellate and the Supreme Court).

Yeah, it seems pretty unlikely on a multi-justice court, even assuming you could get a justice interested in doing it appointed to the court in question, which also seems ridiculously unlikely.