Justice Antonin Scalia dead

The presidential election just became even more important. The Republican controlled Congress will never allow Obama to put some left wing socialist liberal on the Supreme Court. The next president will choose. In the mean time, the libs will have the upper hand without Scalia’s dissenting opinion.

Via The Hill

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, has died during a hunting vacation in Texas.

Scalia was the leading conservative voice on the court, and his death will set off a mammoth fight over who should replace him in the heat of a presidential election cycle.

There is likely to be significant pressure on the Senate, which is in Republican hands, to hold off on confirming anyone nominated by President Obama, who is in his last year in office.

A spokesman for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a conservative who sits on the Judiciary panel, immediately sent a message on Twitter that no nominee from Obama should be considered.

Replacing Scalia with a liberal justice could change the balance of the court under Chief Justice John Roberts.

If a new justice is not confirmed under Obama, this is something both parties are likely to trumpet as the 2016 contest continues.

It would mean the election of the president could immediately determine the direction of the Supreme Court.

Two local news outlets first reported the news of Scalia’s death, which the San Antonio News and KVIA said was from natural causes.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released a statement calling the conservative justice an “unwavering defender” of the Constitution.

“He was the solid rock who turned away so many attempts to depart from and distort the Constitution,” Abbot wrote. “His fierce loyalty to the Constitution set an unmatched example, not just for judges and lawyers, but for all Americans.


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Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Oreo replaces Scalia with another lib commie and we have another nail in the coffin for Merica. The SCOTUS does not uphold the Constitution or serve as guardian for the rule of law and has not for decades. Does it really matter who sist on the Supreme Court ?

motley3
motley3

Natural causes eh? Riggghhhhttt ……. try ‘Pelican Brief’

SSS

For the Libertarian-minded folks on this site, this is sad news. We just lost our best and smartest ally on the Supreme Court. Scalia wasn’t just a swing vote, he was our vote.

RIP, Judge.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Celebrating with Tangelo screwdrivers here in CA for all the screw jobs Scalia left us during his tenure. I’d say this swings the pendulum about 5 clicks closer to the left, which is good news for all of us.

Antonin Scalia quotes:

“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached”

“What will happen is, for every one person who sees it on C-SPAN gavel to gavel — so that they can really understand what the court is about, what the whole process is — 10,000 will see 15-second takeouts on the network news, which I guarantee you will be uncharacteristic of what the court does, … So I have come to the conclusion that it will misinform the public, rather than inform the public, to have our proceedings televised.”

“The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,”

“Maybe he wanted to buy a new crutch for Tiny Tim, … Please, counselor, don’t read all these tenderhearted things into it.”

Anonymous
Anonymous

motley3,

Scalia was almost 80.

There’s really nothing so suspicious of someone that age dying of natural causes, and if anything suspicious if found it will be surprising.

Not saying something couldn’t have been done surreptitiously to speed things along, just that it is far, far more unlikely than simple natural cause at that age.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Be interesting to see if the Republicans actually have the guts to stand up to Obama and put this off till after he is gone.

They haven’t stood up to him on anything yet.

Unpredictable
Unpredictable

I think it is possible the Republican Congress could, at the behest of TPTB, fast track a liberal appointee. Look at how they handled Omnibus, TPP, etc.

SCOTUS is how the TPTB could negate the 2nd Amendment which is, obviously, very high on their agenda at this time. It will be interesting to watch how it all unfolds.

AC
AC

I can only imagine what sort of twisted degenerate 0bama will try to appoint as a replacement.

Unpredictable
Unpredictable

Maybe Caitlyn Jenner?

Thinker

This 4T just got a whole lot more interesting. Liberal elites were already talking about how the next President would likely appoint 2 new justices (Ginsburg is 82 and Kennedy is also 79). Now there’s 3.

It is *highly* unlikely a Constitutional advocate will be appointed by either party.

TC
TC

I just want to know where Dick fucking Cheney was when this happened. Ooooof…

Gator
Gator

Scalia might have done some good things, but lets be honest here, people. He was no libertarian. “closest thing to a libertarian is meaningless. Put Bernie sanders in a room with the writing staff of salon.com, ole bernie is “the closest thing to a libertarian we’ve got” but is still pretty fucking far from a libertarian. The supreme court mostly rubber stamps everything the government wants it to, at least when it matters.

But, having said that, I know change my position about not voting for any of these douche bags in november. I am now changing my position to this: I will vote for any of them if they pledge to nominate Andrew Napolitano.

rhs jr
rhs jr

Praise God for one man’s courage pushing back on the total Societal Destruction being caused by the Glacier of Liberalism.

nkit
nkit

Ovomit will attempt to appoint Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch….Anyone who will not go along will be deemed a racist. The beast continues to undermine white western civilization with the elimination of all races as its goal. The beast demands compliance.

Hollow Man
Hollow Man

Why would the Republicans NOT cave now.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The US law has been dead and lawless since Obama declared himself emperor.There is zero zip accountability in w h.Holder declared banks too big to prosecute.Holder also said they can money launder Clinton should have been behind bars and tried for treason

Thinker

Little factoid for the history buffs among us:

The longest it has ever taken to confirm a Supreme Court nominee is 125 days and the average time it takes is 73 days. Obama has 341 days left in office.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I can just envision every political parasite in Washington salivating at the thought of being appointed Justice .Hillary or Obama?

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

T4C- The thought of Oreo on the Supreme Court is beyond devastating. From the look of the downers I got above, I wonder if people have noticed that SCOTUS and Congress are useless as tits on a bull when it comes to upholding the Constitution.

This country is fubared and Hitlery will finish running us over the cliff.

Gator
Gator

@thinker, not true.
President John Tyler had a particularly difficult time filling vacancies. Smith Thompson died in office December 18, 1843. His replacement, Samuel Nelson, was in office starting February 14, 1845. That’s a vacancy of 424 days. Henry Baldwin died in office April 21, 1844. His replacement, Robert Cooper, was in office starting August 4, 1846. This vacancy lasted 835 days because Tyler could not get the Senate to work with him. During Tyler’s presidency, the Senate rejected nine separate Supreme Court nominations!

via the federalist.

But, the idea that this even matters is laughable. john boehner had a couple nickname, and while my favorite is still “the weeping cheeto” his most deserving was “johnny lawn chair” for how he folded to obama. Paul Ryan followed in his illustrious footsteps with this last budget, as did many republicans. For the last 7 years, republicans have folded like lawn chairs to many of obamas decrees. That so many think this will be any different is laughable.

Erumpo
Erumpo

I wonder how a so call scotus could arbitrarily nullify a written part of the constitution?

Only if they declared the constitution null and void. If that were done under so called authority , how could they maintain their authority ,when they have violated the compact between citizen and govt?

They already do this , but 2nd amendment is big time shit , in this country , so big time shit will happen .

This would be them throwing down the glove , in an irreparable fashion.

Common Core , wont get them outta that one . They would never be able to leave whatever Green zone they have prepared .

Just my 2 cent vent

Overthecliff
Overthecliff

The shit we are in just got deeper.

SSS

“Little factoid for the history buffs among us: The longest it has ever taken to confirm a Supreme Court nominee is 125 days and the average time it takes is 73 days. Obama has 341 days left in office.”
—-Thinker

Nope. Some appointments by the President have been made while the Senate is in recess. Justice Potter Stewart was appointed by Ike and confirmed over 210 days later.

Trust me on this, people. This Senate will not confirm any nominee to the Supreme Court by Obama. Not. Gonna. Happen.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Was he hunting with Dick Cheney?

starfcker
starfcker

Westy westy westy. That did make me laugh.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

For the last 7 years, republicans have folded like lawn chairs to many of obamas decrees. That so many think this will be any different is laughable. -Gator

So why would that be? (I agree with you but enquiring minds and all that shit)

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Societal Destruction being caused by the Glacier of Liberalism. -rhs jr

Really? Hilarity and Cigar guy took in 130 mil from fail street and they are liberal. Fail street calls them capitalists.

Specie
Specie

There seems to be far too few members of the government dying

flash
flash

Even Scalia reanimated won’t save US from the evil clutches of the three dykes form hell. We no longer have a judicial branch, but one of special interest activism. The power of SCOTUS has become overreaching of the judicial powers granted by the Constitution and should be reformed by the legislative branch.And the sooner the better.

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hardscrabble farmer

Sri Srinivasan/Loretta Lynch are the top 2, however he may have an obligation to Holder that takes precedence. We’ll see.

O will fast track it because of pending decisions.

Senate and House will redouble their efforts at bipartisanship/crossing the aisle/sycophancy and approve whoever he picks with less than a dozen dissenting votes.

90 days, tops.

nkit
nkit

A shame that SCOTUS, having agreed to review Texas vs. The United States by June, will be without Scalia. The case concerns the constitutionality of Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), in essence, Obama’s unilateral immigration reform from 2014 that pretty much will give amnesty to roughly 5.5 million illegal immigrants. This is in total violation of current U.S. Immigration Laws, and will be attacked under the “take care” clause. Under Article 2 the President “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Not only has Obama not faithfully executed the immigration laws that Congress has passed, he has dictatorially created his own immigration laws after repeatedly saying that he was powerless to do so. We will miss Antonin Scalia.

wdg
wdg

Why couldn’t it have been the ugly subversive Ginsberg or the incompetent Sotomayor or Kagan? Justice Scalia is the most accomplished justice on the Supreme Court. It doesn’t seem right.

mike in ga
mike in ga

“If the only thing protecting the 2A is one old judge, we may as well pack it in now. Violence and the willingness to do violence protects rights”.

(paraphrased from WRSA commenter Anne today)

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