This Is Huge - SCOTUS Justice Scalia has died
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The politicians have no intention of fixing anything. They are living high on the hog at our expense. They are the elite lording over you if you hadn't noticed. The libs want to waste money on the non productive welfare state, the cons want to waste billions on defenses we don't need. Either way they continue to waste money at a tremendous rate, money we do not have.
Getting two more libs on the bench is just another step towards it all coming apart. They will legislate from the bench and in conjunction with an executive order happy prez they don't have to run ANYTHING by us anymore.
Prepare to be a peasant, that is the plan...
Getting two more libs on the bench is just another step towards it all coming apart. They will legislate from the bench and in conjunction with an executive order happy prez they don't have to run ANYTHING by us anymore.
Prepare to be a peasant, that is the plan...
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
OMG! RUN FOR THE HILLS!
Get this straight. Obama can only nominate a new justice. The legislature WILL NOT ALLOW HIM TO APPOINT ANYONE. They will shoot down any nomination until he is replaced. I would be willing to bet that if he picked the MOST conservative judge on the face of the Earth, they still would not allow the appointment.
They will "Delay, Delay, Delay"
There will not be a super-liberal judge appointed to the supreme court. Worse case scenario for the right (even if Hillary or Bernie win) is it will be a moderate.
OMG! RUN FOR THE HILLS!
Get this straight. Obama can only nominate a new justice. The legislature WILL NOT ALLOW HIM TO APPOINT ANYONE. They will shoot down any nomination until he is replaced. I would be willing to bet that if he picked the MOST conservative judge on the face of the Earth, they still would not allow the appointment.
They will "Delay, Delay, Delay"
There will not be a super-liberal judge appointed to the supreme court. Worse case scenario for the right (even if Hillary or Bernie win) is it will be a moderate.
Front runner is Sri Srinivasan, who was serving in the court of appeals in DC. He was confirmed for that position 97-0. He was originally nominated by Republicans for the current position.
This calling to wait until the next president is silly. Average time to be nominated for the current Supreme court is like 71 days. The longest has been something like 135 days. Obama has about 340 days left. It is his rightful job as president to Appoint a judge.
This calling to wait until the next president is silly. Average time to be nominated for the current Supreme court is like 71 days. The longest has been something like 135 days. Obama has about 340 days left. It is his rightful job as president to Appoint a judge.
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
OMG! RUN FOR THE HILLS!
Damn you beat me to it, was thinking that all the way down the thread. If you think either party has your best interests at heart that's even funnier still...
An interesting point of view... one of many.... and a bit of comedy.
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I'm on board with the conspiracy theorists.....His death just seems fishy to me. Listened to the right wing radio and they make a lot good points. (something has got to give)
Maybe its cause I just don't like the scumbag in chief and his cronies around him too.
Maybe its cause I just don't like the scumbag in chief and his cronies around him too.
Democrat and Republican Priorities.
(1) What ever gets ME elected.
(2) What's good for MY party.
(3) What's good for the country.
I am at odds with Democrats because all I have ever done is work and don't expect any handouts.
I am also at odds with the Republicans because I am not rich.
That being said. As the son of a Norwegian immigrant, I wouldn't live anywhere else. My glass is half full.
(1) What ever gets ME elected.
(2) What's good for MY party.
(3) What's good for the country.
I am at odds with Democrats because all I have ever done is work and don't expect any handouts.
I am also at odds with the Republicans because I am not rich.
That being said. As the son of a Norwegian immigrant, I wouldn't live anywhere else. My glass is half full.
It was this guy... beamed into Scalia's room with his phaser and did in the ole guy.... and then went off to hang with Elvis and Pope Ratzinger in Cuba... with Alex Jones following shrouded in his cloak of invisibility.
Secret spy footage captured fresh off the boat in Havana.
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Secret spy footage captured fresh off the boat in Havana.
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Wisdom of Reagan applies here well!!
Reagan believed in the US Constitution... Scalia surely believed in the US Constitution....
If Scalia could speak today... I'm confident that he would agree with Ronald Reagan that our Senate should work swiftly to fulfill its "Constitutional Obligation" that they swore to uphold.
The longest wait for a SCOTUS nominee, from the time they were nominated to the time it went for vote, was 125 days for Louis D. Brandeis in 1916.... Obama has 341 days remaining in office.... not even close to the "Thurmond rule" time... especially when Mitch McConnel himself scoffs at the efficacy of that 6-month "Thurmond rule"... which is actually not any form of an official doctrine.
The "80 year tradition" claims are only half truths, and reliable information points to the veracity of the half-truth notion.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ding-notion-supreme-court-vacancy-hasnt-been/
Regardless of any political motivations that exist... and they DO exist... it is Obamas OBLIGATION to nominate a SCOTUS Justice.
Worthy of note here... is that Obama is refusing to take the easy route and do a Recess appointment of the new Justice... something that has happened a dozen times in the history of SCOTUS.
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Reagan believed in the US Constitution... Scalia surely believed in the US Constitution....
If Scalia could speak today... I'm confident that he would agree with Ronald Reagan that our Senate should work swiftly to fulfill its "Constitutional Obligation" that they swore to uphold.
The longest wait for a SCOTUS nominee, from the time they were nominated to the time it went for vote, was 125 days for Louis D. Brandeis in 1916.... Obama has 341 days remaining in office.... not even close to the "Thurmond rule" time... especially when Mitch McConnel himself scoffs at the efficacy of that 6-month "Thurmond rule"... which is actually not any form of an official doctrine.
The "80 year tradition" claims are only half truths, and reliable information points to the veracity of the half-truth notion.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ding-notion-supreme-court-vacancy-hasnt-been/
Regardless of any political motivations that exist... and they DO exist... it is Obamas OBLIGATION to nominate a SCOTUS Justice.
Worthy of note here... is that Obama is refusing to take the easy route and do a Recess appointment of the new Justice... something that has happened a dozen times in the history of SCOTUS.
http://jurist.org/forum/2016/02/william-ross-supreme-court-appointment.php
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None of these FACTS matter because 60% of Republicans think The President is Muslim and therefore not qualified to be president and therefore make important decisions like picking a Supreme Court Justice. They think the US Constitution is only applied to Americans. If they delay this decision it will go down in history as the longest delay for an appointment by the Congress. If you look at it like that maybe that is what they are trying to do be the worse Congress in this Countries history. I guess if you are trying to be the worst you might as well be the best of the worst
So 40% aren't paying any attention?
Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court Seat
Interesting editorial in the NY Times to add to this discussion.
Interesting editorial in the NY Times to add to this discussion.
www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25
Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court SeatFollowing the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Republicans apparently believe they can profit by creating a political crisis that the nation has never seen before. On Tuesday, the leadership doubled down on its refusal to take any action on any nominee from President Obama to replace Justice Scalia.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader who seems to have lost touch with reality and the Constitution, accused Mr. Obama of plunging the nation into a “bitter and avoidable struggle” should he name anyone to the court.
Forget an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. Top Republicans are pledging not to hold hearings or even to meet with a nominee.
In a statement dripping with sarcasm, Mr. McConnell said that Mr. Obama “has every right to nominate someone,” and “even if doing so will inevitably plunge our nation into another bitter and avoidable struggle, that is his right. Even if he never expects that nominee to actually be confirmed but rather to wield as an electoral cudgel, that is his right.”
Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the majority whip, said, “We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame-duck president.”
These statements are so twisted that it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s take them one by one.
First, Mr. Obama is not a “lame-duck president.” The lame-duck period is broadly understood to run from after the November election until a new president is inaugurated in January. November is more than eight months off. Based on the average number of days it has taken the Senate to act on previous Supreme Court nominees, the seat could be filled by this spring.
Second, no matter how often Republicans repeat the phrase “let the people decide,” that’s not how the system works. The Constitution vests the power to make nominations to the court in the president, In any case, the people have already decided who should make this appointment: They elected Mr. Obama twice, by large margins.
Third, it is preposterous to accuse Mr. Obama of causing a “bitter struggle” by nominating someone who will not be confirmed. The only reason a nominee would not be confirmed is that the Senate has pre-emptively decided to block any nominee sight unseen. Mr. Obama is once again the only adult in the room, carrying out his constitutional obligation while Senate Republicans scramble to dig up examples of Democrats trying to block nominees. But those examples show only that Democratic senators have pushed hard for Republican presidents to pick ideologically moderate nominees. Until now, neither party has ever vowed to shut down the nomination process entirely, even before it has begun.
Only two Republican senators, Mark Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine, were brave enough to say that they would vote on President Obama’s nominee. This is what passes for moderation in today’s G.O.P.: simply stating a willingness to do the job you were elected to do.
Unfortunately, for too many Republicans moderation now equals apostasy. These Republicans have stubbornly parked themselves so far to the right for so many years that it is hard to tell whether they can hear how deranged they sound.
The truth is they are afraid — and they should be. They know Mr. Obama has a large pool of extremely smart and thoroughly mainstream candidates from which to choose a nominee. They know that if the American people were allowed to hear such a person answer questions in a Senate hearing, they would wonder what all the fuss was about.
So Mr. McConnell and his colleagues plan to shut their doors, plug their ears and hope the public doesn’t notice. The Republican spin machine is working overtime to rationalize this behavior. Don’t be fooled. It is panic masquerading as strength.
Again it doesn't matter Mountainhorse. Very interesting view in the editorial though. They just keep piling their own Chit up even though they are already knee deep in it. it will be amazing to watch congress implode over this matter and scary to live with its consequences. Once again we are the only ones that will get hurt.
Does someone want to show me a northern European socialist country without snowmobiles. You guys are hilarious and so predictable. Merrick Garland is going to do a great job, even Senate Republicans thought so before Scalia's death.
Mafesto,
Do you have some specific examples where he shows that he was not for upholding the constitution or the amendments to it?.... Sincere question.
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Do you have some specific examples where he shows that he was not for upholding the constitution or the amendments to it?.... Sincere question.
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