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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.

Actually...Ted Cruz did step off the campaign trail to attend.

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That was the status at the time I posted it, cd only posted after the event...
derp

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Apparently. Amazing deduction there sherlock

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FR

Another perspective on Scalia:

Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed. Belligerent with his colleagues, dismissive of his critics, nostalgic for a world where outsiders knew their place and stayed there, Scalia represents a perfect model for everything that President Obama should avoid in a successor. The great Justices of the Supreme Court have always looked forward; their words both anticipated and helped shape the nation that the United States was becoming. Chief Justice John Marshall read the new Constitution to allow for a vibrant and progressive federal government. Louis Brandeis understood the need for that government to regulate an industrializing economy. Earl Warren saw that segregation was poison in the modern world. Scalia, in contrast, looked backward.

His revulsion toward homosexuality, a touchstone of his world view, appeared straight out of his sheltered, nineteen-forties boyhood. When, in 2003, the Court ruled that gay people could no longer be thrown in prison for having consensual sex, Scalia dissented, and wrote, “Today’s opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct.” He went on, “Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a life style that they believe to be immoral and destructive.”


So, fuck him. Let him stay dead. Obama was justified in not attending the high mass funeral.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/antonin-scalia-looking-backward

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So, fuck him. Let him stay dead. Obama was justified in not attending the high mass funeral.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/antonin-scalia-looking-backward

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So, fuck him. Let him stay dead. Obama was justified in not attending the high mass funeral.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/antonin-scalia-looking-backward

Unlike my friend, Bama, I believe these words belong to you, Vincent?

I'm asking, but if I'm wrong, I will make a public apology.



Michael

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So, fuck him. Let him stay dead. Obama was justified in not attending the high mass funeral.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/antonin-scalia-looking-backward

Unlike my friend, Bama, I believe these words belong to you, Vincent?

I'm asking, but if I'm wrong, I will make a public apology.



Michael

I stand by my words, Michael.

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I stand by my words, Michael.

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If Obama was smart (which is questionable) he'd nominate Sri Srinivasan. But my guess is Sri isn't progressive enough for this President.

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What a wonderfull post, trashing a man with the lies of his enemies (note I did not say your lies) to note his passing.

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I stand by my words, Michael.

Then, here comes your apology (public, like I promised).

I mis-judged you. I thought you were different than the average PPL denizens of this place. I was wrong. ¡Adios!



Michael

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Should the President make a nomination? He has a duty to do so.
Who? I have no clue. I have yet to meet a judge that does not legislate when the mood suits him/her.
Once upon a time, there was a US Supreme Court Judge who said in arguments the US Constitution is unconstitutional.
My Dad used to talk about it decades ago
I Googled and found other examples.

Now we have a bunch of adult children running the US Senate saying they do not want to play ball by the rules they pledged to defend by oath.
I say that despite the Democrats played the same game back in 2007.
Sen Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in 2007 that President George W. Bush shouldn’t get to pick any more Supreme Court justices because Schumer was afraid the bench leaned too far Right. Schumer made this remark a whole 19 months before the next president was inaugurated.
Then-Senator Barack Obama said in 2006 that he supported the Democratic-led filibuster to stop Justice Samuel Alito from making it to the Supreme Court.

Personally, I wish they would do their duty. There is nothing saying they have to rubberstamp whoever the President nominates. But they do have a duty to carry out due process.
This has been happening on both sides all too long and our courts have suffered lacking speedy trials as a result.
NO PARTY has clean hands in these cases, but it is past time to grow up.

I have zero faith in the US Supreme court sticking to the US Constitution. They have collectively legislated all too often.
But it is the system we have and should insist the process proceed in due course.
Would I nominate the same type of candidate as President Obama? Doubtful, but the same can be said of those put up by previous Presidents of both parties.