Wednesday, December 03, 2008 | 5:14 p.m.

No Spring Chickens on Court's Left Side

by Deb Price

In a New York Times magazine article last year, telecommuting Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens told of his amusement at finding telltale traces of having been working with legal briefs at the beach by his Florida condo.

"One of my favorite memories is the time I was sitting (on the bench after a return from Florida). I shook the sand out of the brief!"

The magazine portrait confirmed the 88-year-old justice's remarkable intellectual and physical fitness. Unlike ...

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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Mon Oct 6, 2008 10:19 AM

Ma'am...Not one branch of government adheres to the constitution. Few people if any accept the ideas in the preamble, declaration of independence, or the bill of rights. What we need is a clear test of the notion that we must consent to be governed. This government will rule against my consent until the whole of it is replaced and a new constitution is written. The past cannot bind the future. The future has to look after itself. Some time before death or demensia sets in everyone should demand a vote on every issue affecting them. This is not 1790. We can express ourselves and be heard. We only need to talk louder than money.... Thanks...Sweeney

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