Antonin Scalia is Dead

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The supreme court justice Antonin Scalia has died. He was 79.

The supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, the Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott and the US marshals service confirmed that Scalia had died.

In a statement, Roberts said: “On behalf of the court and retired justices, I am saddened to report that our colleague Justice Antonin Scalia has passed away.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/13/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dead-at-79

Do you GAF? Is the world a better or worse place now?

Dead conservative judge with a Dem in the White House... Who's on deck???

Democrats with no concern for civil liberties or the constitution, the prospect of anyone they appoint is scary.

for all the lives he's ruined i see no reason to respect his.

  On 2/14/2016 at 1:44 AM, delet... said:

Democrats with no concern for civil liberties or the constitution, the prospect of anyone they appoint is scary.

Republicans respect civil liberties now?

Thank fuck this asshole is dead.

dlete are you suggesting that obama will appoint someone worse on civil rights than scalia, who lamented the voting rights act being renewed in 2006?

lol smh at the "we need to wait til the next president is elected to appoint a successor" talk from the conservatives. fuck him. he was scum.

who was this guy?

Just after the 5-4 (Republicans won) vote stopping the global warming initiative thing too.

  On 2/14/2016 at 2:39 AM, pyramidpanes said:

who was this guy?

He was a supreme court judge who held conservative views. His 2008 opinion on the second amendment was a victory for the gun lobby.

only the good die young

...or to aweSOME???

  On 2/14/2016 at 3:14 AM, Brisbot said:

Just after the 5-4 (Republicans won) vote stopping the global warming initiative thing too.

the ruling halts it until legal challenges are settled, i dont know if or when that will happen.

this issue is a good way to combat the disregard of the republicans. the science is pretty basic. you could do a science experiment with middle schoolers to demonstrate that co2 is a greenhouse gas.

terms like "global warming" and "climate change" dont do the phenomenon justice. it's climate destabilization. the climates have been stable for thousands of years, now we dont know whats going to happen. all kinds of chain reactions are in store. the fools cheer-leading the climate deniers say the climate changes all the time. well, yeah, on the tens of thousands and millions of years scale. for several hundred years though, it has been pretty stable. we are kicking it into an era of unpredictable change. what will happen to the global economy if coastal cities have to be abandoned in one or two or three hundred years? no insurance companies or government programs can substitute for that kind of loss of value and disruption of infrastructure. cue republicans to say it will spur the private sector

this news pleases me

I wish we could emblazon that graph on his toombstone. Funeral attended by hundreds of his closest corporations.

Rot in eternity dude, you get to be some future civilization's jet fuel.

  On 2/14/2016 at 4:38 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

 

Rot in eternity dude, you get to be some future civilization's jet fuel.

I'd rather his corpse feeds a tree.

Don't pretend you all didn't chub up at this new excuse to vomit upon the internet a fresh wave of punditry on American politics.

  On 2/14/2016 at 1:58 AM, doublename said:

 

  On 2/14/2016 at 1:44 AM, delet... said:

Democrats with no concern for civil liberties or the constitution, the prospect of anyone they appoint is scary.

 

 

Republicans respect civil liberties now?

Yeah really FFS

he was a prick imo.

the onion does it nicely

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/justice-scalia-dead-following-30-year-battle-socia-52356?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

  On 2/14/2016 at 6:06 AM, autopilot said:

Don't pretend you all didn't chub up at this new excuse to vomit upon the internet a fresh wave of punditry on American politics.

i have enjoyed the resulting humor. personally i feel for Clarence Thomas.. he must feel so entirely lost now that he has no guiding light.. no rudder.. no older brother figure to speak for him when he's supposed to have a thought.. oh right.. he doesn't speak.. hasn't said but maybe two words from the bench in how many years?

anyway.. here's a quote or two from the departed

"Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached" - Antonin Scalia

"in order for capitalism to work... to produce a good and a stable society, traditional Christian virtues are essential" - Antonin Scalia

"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?" AntoninScalia

also keep in mind.. the republicans will try to block the appointee for as long as they can. the longest it's ever taken is 121 days or something..

obama has 340 days left in office or there abouts.. so if they manage to do it it'll be a precedent and in the mean time they'll go on and on about how it should be the next president who appoints whoever the next SCJ. what a load of crap.

helluva time to croak but it'll maybe at least change up the media blob for a while.

Satan has forsaken him.

Also, how come dleet is allowed to troll that much, it's all he does. Shameful behaviour from a mod.

I really dont think he was a prick. He had a specific idea how a democracy should work and how to interpret the constitution. Imo, he was sincerely a-political. And it's really confusing to see him get all the crap while he's only 1/9th of supreme court, and while interpreting any of his views from a political lens. The irony is, imo, that he did take his job seriously in that he tried to be as a-political as possible. Which is what a judge should do. Again, imo.

The current thing about the supreme court being so politicised is more a problem of a disfunctional democracy and less of a supreme court with "the wrong views".

Although I'm sure most of you either disagree or dont give a fuck, this youtube might explain a thing or two

  On 2/14/2016 at 9:06 AM, goDel said:

I really dont think he was a prick. He had a specific idea how a democracy should work and how to interpret the constitution. Imo, he was sincerely a-political. And it's really confusing to see him get all the crap while he's only 1/9th of supreme court, and while interpreting any of his views from a political lens. The irony is, imo, that he did take his job seriously in that he tried to be as a-political as possible. Which is what a judge should do. Again, imo.

 

The current thing about the supreme court being so politicised is more a problem of a disfunctional democracy and less of a supreme court with "the wrong views".

 

Although I'm sure most of you either disagree or dont give a fuck, this youtube might explain a thing or two

one can be apolotical and still be a prick. i don't think he was apolitical though. or impartial. he was clearly a conservative guy and had conservative ideas. it's why certain people are picked by certain presidents. thankfully, they sometimes surprise us. also obviously some cases that the court hears involve issues that are close to the hearts of the justices and they all have opinions one way or the other.

i'm no constitutional historian nor do i study the supreme court but i'm pretty sure you can go back through his history and find places where he and other justices have claimed "i'm for strictly interpreting the constitution" and other times when they've done that only when it suits their interests.. and other times where they've interpreted things with a less strict eye.

anyway.. i agree about a "disfunctional democracy". we've got that in droves for quite a while now. but thee social issues are always going to end up in the courts because people disagree with this or that law and challenge things in court cases and then up the chain it goes. i don't see an end to that any time soon.