Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dead

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Not even sure what to say here.

Frankly, I couldn't be happier. The man did more damage to this country than any terrorist.

DSGamer wrote:
Robear wrote:

Very interesting. Not convenient timing for the Republicans. Or the Democrats, for that matter, given the Senate balance of power...

It definitely makes the whole electability issue even more relevant.

These justices are al at risk of retirement within the next term or two. If you look at the top 3, you are looking at a potential shift in the court. Ginsberg will be the most likely to leave, and she is also the most progressive voice.

I include Thomas, because frankly, without Scalia around to do his work for him, I think he may just want to move on.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg 82 - Clinton
Anthony Kennedy - 79 - Reagan
Stephen Breyer - 77 - Clinton
Clarence Thomas - 67 - Bush Sr.

It is going to be an interesting year no matter how you look at it.

Most of us strongly disagreed with him, heck strongly may be an inadequate word to describe how much I disagreed, but he served his country in the best way he knew how. As I said in the Presidential Election thread, this next Presidential term will decide a few more seats. It's going to be an interesting year.

Also, I put real money down on Republicans delaying any hearings until next year.

He spent his career trying to destroy almost everything I find great about this nation. I have absolutely nothing good or even neutral to say about this man.

Wow. I thought for sure his regular sacrifices of small children would have kept his pact with the dark lord satisfied for at least another decade.

Maybe, just maybe...

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Good.

Oh, I love this place sometimes.

Yeah, sorry for his loved ones, not so much for him.

Demosthenes wrote:

Oh, I love this place sometimes.

Yeah, sorry for his loved ones, not so much for him.

I am about as concerned about his loved ones as I am about the family of Saddam Hussein or Muammar Qaddaffi. Which is to say "very little".

Can the Thomas head of the two headed Scaliasaur survive?

I will remember him as a raging bigot who used his personal prejudices to try to destroy the lives of GLTBQ people. I have no doubt he was a loving father, grandfather, and friend, but, in his public persona, he was a repugnant, petty, small-minded, utterly disgusting bigot who represented the right-wing lunatic fringe as horrifyingly effectively as he could have.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I will remember him as a raging bigot who used his personal prejudices to try to destroy the lives of GLTBQ people. I have no doubt he was a loving father, grandfather, and friend, but, in his public persona, he was a repugnant, petty, small-minded, utterly disgusting bigot who represented the right-wing lunatic fringe as horrifyingly effectively as he could have.

+1

Pretty classy thread

NormanTheIntern wrote:

Pretty classy thread

Worthy of the man himself.

Wow.

I'm a...wow.

My Facebook friends are awesome.

As I attempted to write something nice about Justice Antonin Scalia, Twitter's 140 character limit suddenly seemed enormous.
NormanTheIntern wrote:

Pretty classy thread

I'm pretty sure you had this post written before you opened the thread, and came here to find exactly what you found.

Jayhawker wrote:
NormanTheIntern wrote:

Pretty classy thread

I'm pretty sure you had this post written before you opened the thread, and came here to find exactly what you found.

Considering he, personally, anointed Bush 43 who murdered 3000 American servicemen in his lie of a war in Iraq, I feel no obligation to extend him any class at all. The blood of literally thousands of Americans cries out in protest.

Paleocon wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Oh, I love this place sometimes.

Yeah, sorry for his loved ones, not so much for him.

I am about as concerned about his loved ones as I am about the family of Saddam Hussein or Muammar Qaddaffi. Which is to say "very little".

I am somewhat more concerned for the feelings of his loved ones than I am for those of the known torturers and murderers Uday and Qusay Hussein (both of whom are happily dead). I can't conjure up a whole lot of sympathy for Scalia, but let's be reasonable here.

As for Scalia himself, I just can't generate much sadness for a guy whose judicial rulings were often self-contradictory in the name of blatant partisanship, and who seemed to take joy in the pain his rulings caused to defendants. Frankly, I think the man was beginning to suffer from the effects of old age over the last half-decade or so.

kazooka wrote:

I am somewhat more concerned for the feelings of his loved ones than I am for those of the known torturers and murderers Uday and Qusay Hussein (both of whom are happily dead). I can't conjure up a whole lot of sympathy for Scalia, but let's be reasonable here.

Scalia do any torturing himself, true, but he was a huge fan of the practice, U and Q are much closer to him than not.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I will remember him as a raging bigot who used his personal prejudices to try to destroy the lives of GLTBQ people. I have no doubt he was a loving father, grandfather, and friend, but, in his public persona, he was a repugnant, petty, small-minded, utterly disgusting bigot who represented the right-wing lunatic fringe as horrifyingly effectively as he could have.

Pretty much this. I'm not "happy he's dead". I'm happy that he will no longer be a condescending bully making decisions that will affect this country for decades or more.

When I saw Dee post the news in a thread in EE, I almost thought it was an Onion story.

Monday, January 23, 2017. President Hillary Clinton nominates Barack Obama to the Supreme Court.

Paleocon wrote:

Monday, January 23, 2017. President Hillary Clinton nominates Barack Obama to the Supreme Court.

I saw that headline about McConnell wanting to delay the nomination until after Obama was out of office and said to myself, "You sure you want to try that?"

Rat Boy wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

Monday, January 23, 2017. President Hillary Clinton nominates Barack Obama to the Supreme Court.

I saw that headline about McConnell wanting to delay the nomination until after Obama was out of office and said to myself, "You sure you want to try that?"

Considering he is a year younger than Kagan (the currently youngest SCJ), this promises to be the gift that keeps on giving.

Paleocon wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

Monday, January 23, 2017. President Hillary Clinton nominates Barack Obama to the Supreme Court.

I saw that headline about McConnell wanting to delay the nomination until after Obama was out of office and said to myself, "You sure you want to try that?"

Considering he is a year younger than Kagan (the currently youngest SCJ), this promises to be the gift that keeps on giving.

I wonder if someone's saying to Mitch, "You really want to risk Bernie picking one?"

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...

With that said, there are other, larger questions: Do Republicans hurt their cause by stonewalling the president for more than 11 months between now and the next administration? Does it give Democrats space to run against GOP obstruction and emphasize the stakes of a Republican president for reproductive rights, civil rights, and labor? And what happens if the next president is Sen. Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, along with a Democratic Senate? Do Republicans concede and allow the president to choose a replacement? Or is the GOP so ideological and so polarized that it refuses to budge for a Democratic president, even in the face of an election?

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