Miers Out, Alito In

Those of us who follow the US political scene will surely have noticed this week whats been happening. Cheney's right hand man was indicted, and I think has resigned. Mier's nomination was withdrawn and the new nominee, who will almost certainly be approved in my opinion, is Samuel Alito. Most Christians here don't know whats up with the Supreme Court, so I did some research. Basically theres 9 judges, all appointed by various presidents over the years (all judges are appointed for life) and they make important decisions such as whether abortion is legal or not. This is one of several reasons why Christians are so passionate about politics in the US. Two judges have died/retired recently and Bush has been trying to replace them with conservatives who will vote against things like abortion.

So right now, the court is made up of
- Roberts (C)
- Stevens (L)
- Scalia (C)
- Kennedy (M)
- Souter (L)
- Thomas (C)
- Ginsburg (L)
- Breyer (L/M)
- Alito (C)

C = conservative, L = liberal, M = moderate.

Now that we have gotten rid of O'Day (M/L), we wil have a more conservative court. Whether Roe v Wade (the case that made abortion legal) can be overturned is.. hard to say, but at least it should be limited. For example, late term abortions, etc...

The vision meeting tonight was interesting, but I will blog about it later.