Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died At Age 79

[t-pain]

yeah... taft went on to be a supreme court justice. almost a century ago.

 

i was trying to think about ike , but was coming up short on answers.

 

obviously bush, reegan, clinton, bush. then theres nixon who resigned and lbj, kennedy...

[Restorium2]

I don't think it's good for America to make nominations that are simply a stick to the eye. Just as bad as saying that you will block the job the government was set up to do, replace a SC judge in a timely manor. Obama always acts like an an adult and he will make an adult pick that will be the right thing to do. That's why we elected him. And you will see the type that needs to go when they suggest stall tactics. Any politician that comes out with the idea that stall tactics are appropriate in this situation is being a bad politician with bad motives and should really be voted out asap. Seems like that includes a lot of the heads of the ® party. 

[t-pain]

Because it was not cruel and unusual punishment, just torture. So if you are doing it as anything but a punishment the constitution doesn't apply. The constitution doesn't apply to everything, just what the judges want it to apply to, selectively.

torture is assault

assault is illegal

waterboarding is torture/assault and illegal.

 

you are correct it has nothing to do with the constitution, so why did scalia bring it up? because he was framing the issue to change the subject like an donkey rectum.

 

the constitution does apply to the detainees at guantanimo bay however, as they have a right to a speedy trial.

 

scalia even making whoopee dissented on that!

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/13/guantanamo.georgebush

 

flower scalia and all those who defend torture and locking people up without trials.

[Restorium2]

torture is assault

assault is illegal

waterboarding is torture/assault and illegal.

 

you are correct it has nothing to do with the constitution, so why did scalia bring it up? because he was framing the issue to change the subject like an donkey rectum.

 

the constitution does apply to the detainees at guantanimo bay however, as they have a right to a speedy trial.

 

scalia even making whoopee dissented on that!

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/13/guantanamo.georgebush

 

flower scalia and all those who defend torture and locking people up without trials.

How does a person in a position to end torture, the right thing to do, just say the constitution doesn't apply to that until after you are guilty? A punishment, which he said the constitution covers, is what you do after proven guilty. Yet torture, in an attempt to prove guilt, is not covered by the constitution. That thinking is saying that torture can only happen to the innocent but not the guilty. Scalia used the disclaimer that it doesn't matter how terrible the consequences are of his ideas if the constitution doesn't apply. So he could be as dirty and rotten of a scoundrel without it effecting him if he wanted to apply his convenient disclaimer. I believe his ideas on torture might have been learned out there on that hunting ranch he died at. Maybe even from Dick Cheney himself, who practically invented the defense of torturing the innocent. How ironic. 

[beourbud]

yeah , pretty sure obama does not want to be scj. but he doesnt really honestly look like he wanted to be president either. hes a weird guy.

am i wrong? anyone read his book? maybe i'm wrong.

Wouldn't the book merely be a snapshot in a span of time.?

 

If the fknrepublicans block his nom then I can easily see him step up once again for We the People. The job is a lot less stressful.. Heck you can make a career out of sitting there and saying nothing, like Clarence Thomas

Thinking its a Good Match

 

You see that's one example that dispels the myth Dems and repubs are the same.

Dems look at the science and do the math and adapt to a changing environment, the republicans are stuck around 6000bc

[zaphod]

Trump Joins Radio Ally To Fuel Scalia Murder Conspiracy Theory

Trump Tells Michael Savage: "They Found A Pillow On His Face, Which Is A Pretty Unusual Place"

[beourbud]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-should-nominate-himself-supreme-court_us_56c35b6ee4b0b40245c80061

 

Why Obama Should Nominate Barack Obama For The Supreme Court Vacancy

 

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans have insisted that no matter who President Barack Obama nominates for the Supreme Court, there will be no hearings, no votes, no nothing. But there may be one potential candidate that Republicans would have a hard time blocking: Obama could appoint constitutional law professor Barack Obama.

 

There's roughly a zero percent chance this'll happen, but here's why it makes sense: Appointing Obama would put the GOP in the position they've desperately wanted to be in since the man was inaugurated. They'd have the chance to vote him out of office. If he's truly as dangerous and illegitimate a president as Republicans say, then this is their opportunity to get him out of the White House by putting him on the court.

 

The move would also give Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell a chance to virtually guarantee that he remains Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (McConnell would have to persuade his colleagues not to filibuster.) Some of the most vulnerable Republicans would have their 2016 chances boosted by voting to confirm Obama. Sens. Pat Toomey (Pa.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) would be assured re-election if they could peel off a small portion of Democratic voters grateful for the bipartisan move.

 

With those four alone, Democrats would have 50 votes, a tie that could be broken by Vice President Joe Biden -- who would be all too pleased to cast the deciding vote to make himself president, even if he'd become one of the shortest-serving presidents in history. And Biden, of course, would then name his longtime ally and Senate successor Ted Kaufman as vice president. If Biden happened to meet the same sudden fate as Antonin Scalia did, Kaufman could quickly go about the business of breaking up the banks.

 

White House aide Eric Schultz, asked if Obama had considered nominating Obama, noted that the president "has said he's not interested in being a Supreme Court justice," citing a New Yorker article by Jeffrey Toobin and a recent interview on Ellen.

 

Sure, Obama may have said that, but what if the president himself called on him to serve? Wouldn't that change his thinking?

 

"The press corps is officially unhinged," Schultz suggested.

[nthlghts]

The senate controls the supreme court nominations and is under no obligation to approve any nominee. The number of justices is not set in stone and can remain at 8 or 9 or 10 if they choose. Precedence has already been set in the case of waiting for next president in an election year.

[+Malamute]

?

 

What precedent?

 

That is simply not true, at all.

[+Malamute]

There have been 11 nominations during an "election year"(Nov-Nov) in the last 100 years.

 

6 confirmed during an election year calendar (Jan-jan) in last 100 years; 5 Nominated during an election Year calendar(jan-jan).  As recently as Reagan  with Anthony Kennedy in 1988.  John Paul Stevens was nominated in November by Ford and confirmed in December. Strom Thurmond broke his own precedent with Anthony Kennedy. It doesn't exist.

[cristinew]

Nlights  where do you get your info  ,?

[GregS]

There is no legal precedent. It is more akin to a spoken tradition, and does not bind anyone by law.

[+washtenaut]

I wonder, if the shoe was on the other foot, how the parties would act.  Probably they would take the exact opposite positions, like this guy

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/mcconnell-in-2008-senate-should-not-stop-confirming-judges-in-election-year/2016/02/16/cd7319c8-d4a3-11e5-a65b-587e721fb231_video.html

 

[GregS]

McConnel stated when Reagan nominated Justice Kennedy in the last months of his second term that it was essential that the opening on the bench must be filled immediately. He has done a predictable about face.

[medmanmike]

I wonder, if the shoe was on the other foot, how the parties would act.  Probably they would take the exact opposite positions, like this guy

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/mcconnell-in-2008-senate-should-not-stop-confirming-judges-in-election-year/2016/02/16/cd7319c8-d4a3-11e5-a65b-587e721fb231_video.html

What an opportunist A-hole!

[zachw]

What an opportunist A-hole!

 

I would reword this: what a f-uckin hypocrite.

Edited February 17, 2016 by zachw

[Restorium2]

[Restorium2]

Houston businessman John Poindexter, who owns the 30,000-acre luxury ranch, told the San Antonio Express-News that Scalia was “animated and engaged” during dinner Friday night. He was one of three dozen invitees to an event unrelated to law or politics.

He said he invited Scalia to the ranch on the suggestion of a mutual friend, a lawyer, who came with Scalia.

Poindexter said they were “very substantial business people,” but not big names in politics.

“There is no political angle here,” he said. “It was strictly a group of friends sympathetic to the justice’s views.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/scalia-found-dead-with-pillow-over-his-head/#YQjPcQzDlJwj7qbp.99

[Restorium2]

Connecting the dots;

 

A big dem donor invites the most conservative SC justice to his ranch to meet with a group of friends sympathetic to the justice's views.

 

How can there be no political angle when he says the friends were all sympathetic to the judges views? Once you enter into the realm of; The Justice's Views you have admitted there was a political angle. 

[Restorium2]

Sounds to me like Scalia was meeting with lobbyists. I didn't know that even happens. Seems like corruption to me. 

[beourbud]

Thank God Scalia is yesterday's news.

Edited February 17, 2016 by beourbud

[knucklehead bob]

Was Scalia Murdered? Forget “Conspiracy Theory.” This Is Real.

Let’s jump right in with quotes from the Washington Post, 2/15, “Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Antonin Scalia”. The Post published extraordinary statements from the Facebook page of “William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police”:

“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia.”

 

 

 

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/02/was-scalia-murdered-forget-conspiracy-theory-this-is-real.html

[beourbud]

McConnel needs his face circumcised or something.

Reminds me of the old Penis with Sunglasses public service video about STDs

You might not notice it at first but the closer you look you realize he is one big dick.

[Highlander]

I'm really annoyed with what I hear republican leaders saying about this upcoming nomination. They are saying crap like "the next president should nominate the next SCJ, be it Sanders or Clinton or one of the several republicans."

 

What a joke. They must think we are stupid

 

Any right-minded constitutional conservative should support that the current president should nominate the next SCJ.

[trichcycler]

Was Scalia Murdered? Forget “Conspiracy Theory.” This Is Real.

Let’s jump right in with quotes from the Washington Post, 2/15, “Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Antonin Scalia”. The Post published extraordinary statements from the Facebook page of “William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police”:

“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia.”

 

 

 

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/02/was-scalia-murdered-forget-conspiracy-theory-this-is-real.html

William Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for the Washington, D.C., police force, wrote on Facebook: “As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia… My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in Texas.”

 

"I was stunned that at this day and time with someone as important as a justice sitting on the Supreme Court, you would have a haphazard investigation," Richie told INSIDE EDITION.

 

Justice Scalia was found dead in his bed in a hotel suite at the 30,000 acre Cibolo Creek Ranch in west Texas on Saturday.

 

The ranch owner says he discovered Scalia with "a pillow over his head" but a local judge pronounced him dead of natural causes without seeing the body or performing an autopsy, which is permissible under Texas law.