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Hillary.

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Obama shouldn't have snubbed [Scalia's] funeral.

"There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans
to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well,
as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less
-- a slower-track school where they do well."

Justice Scalia, Oral Argument for Fisher v. Texas, 2015

If I were a person of color, I wouldn't feel the slightest need/desire to attend the funeral of someone who'd said that from the bench of the highest court in the land.

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Obama shouldn't have snubbed [Scalia's] funeral.

"There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans
to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well,
as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less
-- a slower-track school where they do well."

Justice Scalia, Oral Argument for Fisher v. Texas, 2015

If I were a person of color, I wouldn't feel the slightest need/desire to attend the funeral of someone who'd said that from the bench of the highest court in the land.

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

In other news, the unforced political errors continue. The Republicans shouldn't have said anything about Obama's nominees and Obama shouldn't have snubbed his funeral.

the funeral was a topic of conversation last night between megyn Kelly and dana perino, who said [paraphrase] "imagine the uproar if one of the liberal justices died and president bush didn't go to the funeral."

she also pointed out that when Obama was a senator, he filibustered the alito appointment. now Obama's on record saying he regrets having done that. id like to believe him, but its tough to...especially given the funeral situation, which I think is a major low class move.

lastly, Hillary was complaining about the republicans' position while on the campaign trail---blaming their nomination position on, you guessed it, hatred and racism.

Well, a lot of justices have died, and a lot of presidents have not attended their funerals in our nations history.

I wouldnt go to that ethics ignoring nutsucker's funeral either, in fact, I am not going.

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Regardless, it was tackey, even for Obama, to snub his funeral.

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If the situation were reversed Scalia would have gone.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

In other news, the unforced political errors continue. The Republicans shouldn't have said anything about Obama's nominees and Obama shouldn't have snubbed his funeral.

the funeral was a topic of conversation last night between megyn Kelly and dana perino, who said [paraphrase] "imagine the uproar if one of the liberal justices died and president bush didn't go to the funeral."

she also pointed out that when Obama was a senator, he filibustered the alito appointment. now Obama's on record saying he regrets having done that. id like to believe him, but its tough to...especially given the funeral situation, which I think is a major low class move.

lastly, Hillary was complaining about the republicans' position while on the campaign trail---blaming their nomination position on, you guessed it, hatred and racism.

Well, a lot of justices have died, and a lot of presidents have not attended their funerals in our nations history.

I wouldnt go to that ethics ignoring nutsucker's funeral either, in fact, I am not going.

Nobody really cares if you are going Mnotter.

In truth, if anyone does care it would only be the tiniest smidgeon of relief that you are not.

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Regardless, it was tackey, even for Obama, to snub his funeral.

I believe the President will visit the lying in state at the Supreme Court and designated the Vice President (who regularly fills in at all manner of funerals and other functions and who, unlike Obama, is Catholic) to attend the requiem Mass. As the dearly departed might have observed with his originalist wit, there's no constitutional right to have the President at your funeral.

If the President had planned to attend, I how many of his critics would be slamming him for hypocrisy.

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If the situation were reversed Scalia would have gone.

We'll never know. But . . .

Justice Antonin Scalia’s absence is no surprise. It was the 19th State of the Union in a row that he’s skipped since he considers the speech a “childish spectacle.”

http://time.com/3672123/state-of-the-union-supreme-court/

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Since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP presidential field has, in a rare show of unity, supported Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that Scalia’s replacement should be determined by the results of the November election. Democratic hypocrites like Sen. Chuck Schumer accuse the GOP of obstructionism, the memory of their blocking of George W. Bush nominees having faded.

They, while insisting that President Obama has the Constitutional right to nominate a replacement, which he does, forget the Senate’s Constitutional role to advise and consent -- or not consent. They can say no -- or even “not yet”. Yes, President Obama won election twice, but the voters also gave the Republicans their Senate majority, and if the 2014 election was about anything, it was about stopping the Obama agenda. The GOP Senate majority has been criticized for not keeping their pledge, but this is a chance to...stop...Obama['s] gun control...

Sen. Ted Cruz has warned that we are only one justice away from having the Second Amendment guaranteeing our right to keep and bear arms written out of the Constitution...

Cruz, who opposed Murthy (the anti-gun activist/surgeon general), fears Obama’s SCOTUS pick will be a judicial Murthy clone. Cruz, as attorney general of Texas, has argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has appeared before Scalia many times. In a statement on Scalia’s passing, Cruz stated:

“As liberals and conservatives alike would agree, through his powerful and persuasive opinions, Justice Scalia fundamentally changed how courts interpret the Constitution and statutes, returning the focus to the original meaning of the text after decades of judicial activism. And he authored some of the most important decisions ever, including District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized our fundamental right under the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms. He was an unrelenting defender of religious liberty, free speech, federalism, the constitutional separation of powers, and private property rights. All liberty-loving Americans should be in mourning."

What few people know -- and the media won’t remind them -- is that Ted Cruz was a prime mover in getting Heller, in which Scalia wrote the majority opinion, before the Court and decided in favor of gun rights, ruling that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right and that the word “militia”, as the Founders intended, meant the “whole people” of the United States. If Heller had gone the other way, our gun rights would have been thrown on the ash heap of history. In January Cruz told CNN:

"I represented 31 states in the Heller case, which upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. You know what Barack Obama's position is? That there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever under the Constitution… Hillary Clinton, for example, has said she will put Supreme Court justices on the court who will overturn Heller. And if Heller is overturned… there were four justices who said that there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever, that it is only a collective right in the militia, which is fancy lawyer talk for a nonexistent right… [If] Hillary Clinton gets one more Supreme Court justice, what it would mean is, the Supreme Court would say you and I and every individual American have no constitutional right under the Second Amendment at all, and either the federal government or a state government could make it a crime to possess a firearm."

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Regardless, it was tackey, even for Obama, to snub his funeral.

I believe the President will visit the lying in state at the Supreme Court and designated the Vice President (who regularly fills in at all manner of funerals and other functions and who, unlike Obama, is Catholic) to attend the requiem Mass. As the dearly departed might have observed with his originalist wit, there's no constitutional right to have the President at your funeral.

If the President had planned to attend, I how many of his critics would be slamming him for hypocrisy.

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If the situation were reversed Scalia would have gone.

We'll never know. But . . .

Justice Antonin Scalia’s absence is no surprise. It was the 19th State of the Union in a row that he’s skipped since he considers the speech a “childish spectacle.”

http://time.com/3672123/state-of-the-union-supreme-court/

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

comrade nutsucking cockgargling slobberblogger aside for a moment; some food for thought:

(the short version is, one more liberal judge would be a significant threat to the 2nd amendment)

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Since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP presidential field has, in a rare show of unity, supported Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that Scalia’s replacement should be determined by the results of the November election. Democratic hypocrites like Sen. Chuck Schumer accuse the GOP of obstructionism, the memory of their blocking of George W. Bush nominees having faded.

They, while insisting that President Obama has the Constitutional right to nominate a replacement, which he does, forget the Senate’s Constitutional role to advise and consent -- or not consent. They can say no -- or even “not yet”. Yes, President Obama won election twice, but the voters also gave the Republicans their Senate majority, and if the 2014 election was about anything, it was about stopping the Obama agenda. The GOP Senate majority has been criticized for not keeping their pledge, but this is a chance to...stop...Obama['s] gun control...

Sen. Ted Cruz has warned that we are only one justice away from having the Second Amendment guaranteeing our right to keep and bear arms written out of the Constitution...

Cruz, who opposed Murthy (the anti-gun activist/surgeon general), fears Obama’s SCOTUS pick will be a judicial Murthy clone. Cruz, as attorney general of Texas, has argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has appeared before Scalia many times. In a statement on Scalia’s passing, Cruz stated:

“As liberals and conservatives alike would agree, through his powerful and persuasive opinions, Justice Scalia fundamentally changed how courts interpret the Constitution and statutes, returning the focus to the original meaning of the text after decades of judicial activism. And he authored some of the most important decisions ever, including District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized our fundamental right under the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms. He was an unrelenting defender of religious liberty, free speech, federalism, the constitutional separation of powers, and private property rights. All liberty-loving Americans should be in mourning."

What few people know -- and the media won’t remind them -- is that Ted Cruz was a prime mover in getting Heller, in which Scalia wrote the majority opinion, before the Court and decided in favor of gun rights, ruling that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right and that the word “militia”, as the Founders intended, meant the “whole people” of the United States. If Heller had gone the other way, our gun rights would have been thrown on the ash heap of history. In January Cruz told CNN:

"I represented 31 states in the Heller case, which upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. You know what Barack Obama's position is? That there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever under the Constitution… Hillary Clinton, for example, has said she will put Supreme Court justices on the court who will overturn Heller. And if Heller is overturned… there were four justices who said that there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever, that it is only a collective right in the militia, which is fancy lawyer talk for a nonexistent right… [If] Hillary Clinton gets one more Supreme Court justice, what it would mean is, the Supreme Court would say you and I and every individual American have no constitutional right under the Second Amendment at all, and either the federal government or a state government could make it a crime to possess a firearm."

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/how_scalia_and_ted_cruz_saved_the_2nd_amendment.html

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Nobody would have critisized Obama for going.

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Thus you have demonstrated that he was skipping the State of the Union, and that it had nothing to do with Obama.

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Nobody would have critisized Obama for going.

These days, I'm not at all sure I buy that.

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Thus you have demonstrated that he was skipping the State of the Union, and that it had nothing to do with Obama.

I never said it had anything to do with Obama. I simply cited the SOTU as an example of Scalia's skipping state events that others seem to believe they should attend.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

comrade nutsucking cockgargling slobberblogger aside for a moment; some food for thought:

(the short version is, one more liberal judge would be a significant threat to the 2nd amendment)

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Since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP presidential field has, in a rare show of unity, supported Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that Scalia’s replacement should be determined by the results of the November election. Democratic hypocrites like Sen. Chuck Schumer accuse the GOP of obstructionism, the memory of their blocking of George W. Bush nominees having faded.

They, while insisting that President Obama has the Constitutional right to nominate a replacement, which he does, forget the Senate’s Constitutional role to advise and consent -- or not consent. They can say no -- or even “not yet”. Yes, President Obama won election twice, but the voters also gave the Republicans their Senate majority, and if the 2014 election was about anything, it was about stopping the Obama agenda. The GOP Senate majority has been criticized for not keeping their pledge, but this is a chance to...stop...Obama['s] gun control...

Sen. Ted Cruz has warned that we are only one justice away from having the Second Amendment guaranteeing our right to keep and bear arms written out of the Constitution...

Cruz, who opposed Murthy (the anti-gun activist/surgeon general), fears Obama’s SCOTUS pick will be a judicial Murthy clone. Cruz, as attorney general of Texas, has argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has appeared before Scalia many times. In a statement on Scalia’s passing, Cruz stated:

“As liberals and conservatives alike would agree, through his powerful and persuasive opinions, Justice Scalia fundamentally changed how courts interpret the Constitution and statutes, returning the focus to the original meaning of the text after decades of judicial activism. And he authored some of the most important decisions ever, including District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized our fundamental right under the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms. He was an unrelenting defender of religious liberty, free speech, federalism, the constitutional separation of powers, and private property rights. All liberty-loving Americans should be in mourning."

What few people know -- and the media won’t remind them -- is that Ted Cruz was a prime mover in getting Heller, in which Scalia wrote the majority opinion, before the Court and decided in favor of gun rights, ruling that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right and that the word “militia”, as the Founders intended, meant the “whole people” of the United States. If Heller had gone the other way, our gun rights would have been thrown on the ash heap of history. In January Cruz told CNN:

"I represented 31 states in the Heller case, which upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. You know what Barack Obama's position is? That there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever under the Constitution… Hillary Clinton, for example, has said she will put Supreme Court justices on the court who will overturn Heller. And if Heller is overturned… there were four justices who said that there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever, that it is only a collective right in the militia, which is fancy lawyer talk for a nonexistent right… [If] Hillary Clinton gets one more Supreme Court justice, what it would mean is, the Supreme Court would say you and I and every individual American have no constitutional right under the Second Amendment at all, and either the federal government or a state government could make it a crime to possess a firearm."

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/how_scalia_and_ted_cruz_saved_the_2nd_amendment.html

The first would also be in danger.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

comrade nutsucking cockgargling slobberblogger aside for a moment; some food for thought:

(the short version is, one more liberal judge would be a significant threat to the 2nd amendment)

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Since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP presidential field has, in a rare show of unity, supported Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that Scalia’s replacement should be determined by the results of the November election. Democratic hypocrites like Sen. Chuck Schumer accuse the GOP of obstructionism, the memory of their blocking of George W. Bush nominees having faded.

They, while insisting that President Obama has the Constitutional right to nominate a replacement, which he does, forget the Senate’s Constitutional role to advise and consent -- or not consent. They can say no -- or even “not yet”. Yes, President Obama won election twice, but the voters also gave the Republicans their Senate majority, and if the 2014 election was about anything, it was about stopping the Obama agenda. The GOP Senate majority has been criticized for not keeping their pledge, but this is a chance to...stop...Obama['s] gun control...

Sen. Ted Cruz has warned that we are only one justice away from having the Second Amendment guaranteeing our right to keep and bear arms written out of the Constitution...

Cruz, who opposed Murthy (the anti-gun activist/surgeon general), fears Obama’s SCOTUS pick will be a judicial Murthy clone. Cruz, as attorney general of Texas, has argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has appeared before Scalia many times. In a statement on Scalia’s passing, Cruz stated:

“As liberals and conservatives alike would agree, through his powerful and persuasive opinions, Justice Scalia fundamentally changed how courts interpret the Constitution and statutes, returning the focus to the original meaning of the text after decades of judicial activism. And he authored some of the most important decisions ever, including District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized our fundamental right under the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms. He was an unrelenting defender of religious liberty, free speech, federalism, the constitutional separation of powers, and private property rights. All liberty-loving Americans should be in mourning."

What few people know -- and the media won’t remind them -- is that Ted Cruz was a prime mover in getting Heller, in which Scalia wrote the majority opinion, before the Court and decided in favor of gun rights, ruling that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right and that the word “militia”, as the Founders intended, meant the “whole people” of the United States. If Heller had gone the other way, our gun rights would have been thrown on the ash heap of history. In January Cruz told CNN:

"I represented 31 states in the Heller case, which upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. You know what Barack Obama's position is? That there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever under the Constitution… Hillary Clinton, for example, has said she will put Supreme Court justices on the court who will overturn Heller. And if Heller is overturned… there were four justices who said that there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever, that it is only a collective right in the militia, which is fancy lawyer talk for a nonexistent right… [If] Hillary Clinton gets one more Supreme Court justice, what it would mean is, the Supreme Court would say you and I and every individual American have no constitutional right under the Second Amendment at all, and either the federal government or a state government could make it a crime to possess a firearm."

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/how_scalia_and_ted_cruz_saved_the_2nd_amendment.html

The first would also be in danger.

It already is.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

The sooner Obama picks a nominee the better:)
BTW< Cruz wont be going to Scalias funeral either, and he clerked for the man....
LMAO so much scaremongering and paranoia bounty.