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Originally Posted by spunkmaster
"A black man ruling that's it ok to kick people off a jury just for being black is not really logical.....unless...."
Why not if a white people can be picked off a white jury for black defendents ?
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But that's not what is happening. See the yahoo article again where Texas prosecutors were given a manual that stated they should remove blacks and jews from juries. If the manual also said remove whites then you would have a point.
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Originally Posted by spunkmaster
The so called conservatives don't write opinions based on conservative or liberal views they base their decisions on the constitution.
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Nice theory of purism but bullshit in reality. Judges write opinions and that's exactly what they are. They don't write fact sheets because their opinion is not nessecarily or even remotely a fact.[/QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by spunkmaster
The question is should the constitution be viewed exactly as written 200 years
ago or does it change with the times.
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The see sawing issue of the death penalty proves that the constitution will change in applicaiton even when it does not change physically. Saying it should change with time may overlook the issue of a fucked up "time"...like now. It may be that the new view of the constitution is formulated by a nut case who has gained power(ash-croft ring a bell).