33 Replies to “Scalia”

  1. Scalia was a real happy warrior and textualist. He will be missed greatly.
    Cruz wants to prevent Obama from appoint in his successor. Surely the GOP establishment can agree to that. Let’s see what they say in the debate tonight.

  2. Scalia was top notch. Very sad.
    The left will be going crazy with excitement, and the GOP will say to them “Tell us what you want, and we’ll bend over backwards for you.”
    Go Trump, that is all I can say. And may Scalia rest in peace.

  3. Obama could exhume and re-animate Karl Marx himself and the gutless squish RINOS in the Senate would approve his nomination.

  6. The article suggests Scalia’s replacement won’t be chosen until after the next President takes office.
    When Obama misses this chance we’ll see pigs flying. I just checked outside and I didn’t see any. Have any of you all?

  7. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I wouldn’t be surprised if this had Clinton’s fingerprints all over it. Remember Vince Foster.

  8. My thought as well. Or, if he’s confident in getting appointed as UN secretary-general, he’ll push for someone who’s strong on Muslim outreach.

  9. A great justice, who recognized the limits of judicial power, has passed on. Rest in peace Justice Scalia.

  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork_Supreme_Court_nomination
    “Reagan nominated Bork for the seat on July 1, 1987. Bork had long been interested in the position; in 1973, President Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court following Bork’s compliance in the controversial Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon was unable to carry out the promise before his resignation. [2]
    Within 45 minutes of Bork’s nomination to the Court, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork in a nationally televised speech…”
    Keep in mind, this event took place in the 2nd last year of Reagan’s presidency… close enough to simply say “No” to B. Hussien, continually for the next 11 1/2 months. Regardless of whatever the SCOAMF says or his minions proclaim.

  11. Nope, it has to be a lawyery type, not a mentally ill tranny type.
    Maybe Bammy will appoint Bill the Molester…………..

  12. Rest in peace Justice Scalia. He was a supporter of the constitution and will be missed.
    This is an interesting pre-election race among the various Democrat and Republican candidates and Scalia’s death will really add to the importance to the coming election. A successful Obama appointment will pave the way for the complete destruction of the two hundred and fifty year American experiment in freedom of the individual and the US will soon become just another one of the failed socialist states.
    It would not be surprising if Obama would use his executive powers and appoint Alinsky to the bench.

  13. Your note, Lance, did not appear until after I read the article and began my first comment. Does it mean that you have seen pigs flying today, heh, heh?
    I submit that Bush as the President with a Democratic Senate in 2008 is a far cry from Obama as the President with a Democratic (may as well be) Senate in 2016. I think that O and his minions are already working on who they will nominate.

  16. We can only hope the Republican senate can have the chutzpah to stonewall and reject whoever 0bama nominates.
    I’m not very confident.

  17. Pigs may fly… I doubt the sincerity of this statement, but hope it’s true.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/13/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-vacancy-should-be-filled-after-election/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
    “Senate Republican Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Saturday that a replacement for deceased Justice Antonin Scalia should not be confirmed until a new President is elected and in office.”
    “The American people‎ should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” McConnell said in a statement. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”
    I hope the next gal I marry, waits until I’m dead, cold, AND in the ground before she starts to speculate too vividly on her next conquest …

  18. If Trump or Cruz get a lock on the GOP nomination, the Senate establishment will be begging Obama to appoint 2 judges, whether in spite or from habit.

  19. Maybe Obama can appoint a sympathetic SC justice (ie far left ideologue completely removed from reality) by executive order. Who needs the legislative branch, who confirm SC justices, when you have a king?

  20. We are not going to truly comprehend the greatness of Anton Scalia till long after our SCOTUS turns majority leftist. No, I have no confidence in the election of a true conservative … or blocking an Obama appointment, or even a SANE justice nominated by a Republican president. I am just gutted ! The US Constitution will be put to flame with every decision rendered by the post-Scalia Court. I fear this is really THE END. Not just of the USA … but the whole verdant orb. What a SAD, SAD, DAY !!!!!!!

  21. Scalia’s dissents were masterpieces of writing.
    Isn’t Ben Levin a lawyer? He’d be perfect with Latina Wisdom and the LPGA pro.

  22. He can make a recess appointment and bypass any scrutiny. So now the senate cannot go on recess until Oblamer is gone.

  23. From the Ace of Spades post on Scalia’s passing …
    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=361500
    “Recess Appointment? Gabe notes that Obama will try to push someone in in a recess appointment. That makes it important for McConnell to declare pro forma sessions in all off-days, so that the Senate never goes into formal recess.”
    Note this includes a variety of days until the next President is in office, not just the dreaded December recess and “lame duck” period after a new President is chosen in November of this year.
    some of those dates are listed here:
    https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/698636388451934210/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

  24. A leftie Democrat friend of mine in Chicago referred to Scalia as a fascist. She then added that “Scalia, Cruz, and Rubio want to set back American women at least 59 years.”. I told her to stop watching so much MSNBC.

  25. Be honest.
    If the tables were turned — if you had a current Republican president in his/her final year, a Democrat-controlled Congress, a newly deceased liberal Supreme Court justice, an ideologically split court that until now favoured liberals 5-4, and thus an opportunity to redirect the broad direction of the judicial branch of the federal government — would you still demand than nominations be postponed until after the next election?

  26. kenji………I agree with your sentiment. I doubt that there is a conservative alive who will get appointed to the scotus. the constitution has been trampled by the court and it will be burnt if the balance shits completely to the left. The senate can indeed prevent any nomination, but they have proven to support democrat policies even with a republican majority.

  28. A newly deceased liberal Supreme Court justice, ….ha.
    –
    It would confirm my belief that there is a God in Heaven…

  29. This may be the greatest constitutional crisis in the history of the Republic, more serious than Lincoln’s suspension of Habeas Corpus. The Enemy will try to insert a justice who will overthrow the Constitution. Any Republican who votes to confirm a Zerobama appointee must be subject to Counterrevolutionary Justice, along with his entire staph [sic] and his family.

  30. Mitch McConnell will have to chose between his Father-in-Law’s legal problems (drugs found on one of his ships) and America….Wait! he already sold out in 2014…time for another vodka martini before the fight to a surrender..darn stuff happens

  31. It’s only 11 months. The Senate needs to wait out Obama. Too much is at stake. Mind you, we see in Canada what trash Harper appointed to the Supreme Court. It isn’t be all that hard to find a lawyer who follows the law rather than making it up, but Harper didn’t try very hard. He also decided that Conservatives were unworthy to serve in the Senate so he left 22 positions for the Liberals.

  32. // Relax folks. There’s no way the Senate is going to confirm anyone in an election year. //
    Relax?
    The political implications of Scalia’s death
    Every four years we hear that the winner of the presidential election may well play a key role in shaping the composition of the Court for decades to come. This will not be a hypothetical scenario in 2016, as two things seem highly likely: Senate Republicans will not approve anyone President Obama nominates to replace Scalia, and the next president will at the very least end up choosing two Supreme Court justices, if not more (Justice Ginsburg’s departure from the Court prior to 2021 seems practically certain, — she turns 83 next month and is in precarious health — and one or two other current justices may well be gone by then as well).
    Obama will surely take into account that an increasingly radicalized and confrontational GOP is not going to allow its senators to approve anyone to the Court that Democrats would consider minimally acceptable. This suggests he will nominate someone whose rejection by the Senate will do maximum damage to the electoral chances of both the Republican presidential nominee, and of the GOP senatorial candidates who will be in competitive races in November.
    In fact it’s quite possible that the rejection of Obama’s nominee (or nominees) will become the central issue of the presidential campaign, as we are now poised to spend the next year, if not longer, with a fundamentally deadlocked Supreme Court.
    Indeed, it’s well within the realm of possibility that the politics of this situation will play out in such a way that public disgust over how a radicalized GOP reacts to Obama’s nomination(s) ends up playing a crucial role in handing both the presidency and the Senate to the Democrats.
    And should that happen, we can then look forward to Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders choosing Barack Obama to succeed Antonin Scalia.
    http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/02/the-political-implications-of-scalias-death

  33. Seen drudge today?:
    ‘Scalia found dead with “pillow over head”‘
    I’m sure it’s a conspiracy theory.
    Bye, bye constitution

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