Scalia overruled for the last time

[Minimalist]

...and it has not taken the tin-foil hat crew long to spring into action.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/conspira...over-head/

Conspiracy kooks shift into overdrive after learning Antonin Scalia was found dead with a pillow over head

Silly assholes.

[Mister Agenda]

I haven't read the whole thread, so please forgive me if this has already been brought up, but the next time we have a Constitutional Convention, maybe we should put a retirement age on Supreme Court justices as an alternative to waiting for them to die.

[AFTT47]

...and it has not taken the tin-foil hat crew long to spring into action.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/conspira...over-head/

Conspiracy kooks shift into overdrive after learning Antonin Scalia was found dead with a pillow over head

Silly assholes.

So, Obama's a murderer now. He's got a long way to go to match Hillary Clinton though. I remember a list of over 40 people who it was claimed she murdered. And yet she let Monica Lewinsky live.

[Minimalist]

John Oliver went right to work on the republicunts for this, too.

Includes video.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/john-oli...placement/

[Brian37]

I haven't read the whole thread, so please forgive me if this has already been brought up, but the next time we have a Constitutional Convention, maybe we should put a retirement age on Supreme Court justices as an alternative to waiting for them to die.

Glad you brought that up, which makes Scalia even more of an idiot trying to claim that the original words are set in stone. There is a provision set up in the Constitution to periodically review it. Now, while I still think it is solid, what Scalia ignored is that everything about our three branch system is an anti trust concept that no one branch, not even the voters have absolute power. Not even the SCOTUS rulings are set in stone, because a president can nominate a judge and future courts can reverse prior courts. The founders Idea was to prevent any rise of a monopoly of power. I think Scalia stupidly and wrongfully viewed it through his own religious political view, and that is not what the founders intended.

The Constitution is still solid, but there has never been a party monopoly on who uses it or who controls it.

[Minimalist]

Scalia was a strict constructionalist when it suited his political bullshit.  When it was time to ignore "well-regulated militia" or permit blatant bribery in Citizens United he didn't give a shit care less what the consitutiton said.

Fuck him...and the other 3 fascists.

[Clueless Morgan]

Here is an article about potential Scalia replacements. The first is a guy named Sri Srinivasan, a D.C. circuit judge who was approved in 2013 by the Senate 97-0.

I'm no politician but if I was in President Obama's position, I would salivate at the thought of ripping the Republicans apart if they rejected a guy they already approved unanimously for a position just one level down from supreme court justice. He might not be able to stop them but he can sure as hell cost them a LOT of political capital. How are they going justify it to the American people? There is no justification. He should be able to tear them apart over their obstructionism.

*ahem-hem-hem*

:queue whinny voice:

"B-b-b-but we caaaaaaaaaaaaan't!  It's not faaaaaaaaaaair!!"

"Obama isn't even Ameeeeeeerican, why should he get to choose?"

"Do you really want a socialist picking the next Supreme Court judge in our demoooocracy?"

"Those stoopid voters gave a Muslim 8 years in the Oval Office, let us choose the next judge!"

John Oliver went right to work on the republicunts for this, too.

Includes video.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/john-oli...placement/

o0o0o0o, the big question for tonight: When I get home from the gym, do I watch Walking Dead or Last Week Tonight?

These are the really difficult choices in life.

[Brian37]

Here is an article about potential Scalia replacements. The first is a guy named Sri Srinivasan, a D.C. circuit judge who was approved in 2013 by the Senate 97-0.

I'm no politician but if I was in President Obama's position, I would salivate at the thought of ripping the Republicans apart if they rejected a guy they already approved unanimously for a position just one level down from supreme court justice. He might not be able to stop them but he can sure as hell cost them a LOT of political capital. How are they going justify it to the American people? There is no justification. He should be able to tear them apart over their obstructionism.

*ahem-hem-hem*

:queue whinny voice:

"B-b-b-but we caaaaaaaaaaaaan't!  It's not faaaaaaaaaaair!!"

"Obama isn't even Ameeeeeeerican, why should he get to choose?"

"Do you really want a socialist picking the next Supreme Court judge in our demoooocracy?"

"Those stoopid voters gave a Muslim 8 years in the Oval Office, let us choose the next judge!"

John Oliver went right to work on the republicunts for this, too.

Includes video.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/john-oli...placement/

o0o0o0o, the big question for tonight: When I get home from the gym, do I watch Walking Dead or Last Week Tonight?

These are the really difficult choices in life.

That kid is a perfect analogy for how the GOP has behaved for the past 8 years.

[Minimalist]

These are the really difficult choices in life.

Both?

Oliver is only 1/2 hour.

[Clueless Morgan]

That kid is a perfect analogy for how the GOP has behaved for the past 8 years.

Sad, but true.

These are the really difficult choices in life.

Both?

Oliver is only 1/2 hour.

Monday is a gym night so I get home late

John Oliver tonight, TWD tomorrow.