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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Nordic » Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:59 am

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The Odd Death of Antonin Scalia
Posted on February 15, 2016 by willyloman

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: I wonder what Justice Scalia, a strict constitutionalist, thought about the TPP, the TTIP and their Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions? Because not only do these provisions undermine US law as it stands, but they also supersede the constitution and even rulings of the Supreme Court.

Obama and the leaders of 11 other nations signed the TPP earlier this month. Obama was granted Fast Track authority, but the corporate bill of rights passing as a “trade deal” will still have to be approved by the senate in an up or down vote. It will pass and Obama will sign it leaving just one obstacle: it will certainly be challenged in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it is not constitutional.

Scalia was apparently brought out to the ranch owned by a vulture capitalist to meet with 35 substantial business people shortly after Obama signed the TPP and Obama’s offering to take Scalia’s place is a pro-business neoliberal shill?

Interesting timing, right?

—-

Justice Scalia was found lying with hands folded on top of the sheets. It was first reported that he was found by a housekeeper, then the story changed and he was found by the owner of the ranch and “a friend”. By time they called anyone about the death, Scalia was already cold and they failed to inform any of the authorities of the identity of the deceased. Justices are provided security by the US Marshal Service which didn’t appear to be on the scene at the time of Scalia’s passing. The cause of death was determined to have been by “natural causes” by local officials “over the phone” based on “credible information” provided by that same ranch owner and “a friend”. At first officials said he died of a heart attack but now that official says she “misspoke”. The hearse carrying Scalia away was a “decoy” and the family has opted out of an autopsy.

Scalia was brought there to meet with 35 “substantial business people” and Obama has offered up a “business friendly” judge as a possible replacement for him on the court. A business friendly judge who defended Enron, Rio Tinto and Exxon mobile back in his days of practicing law. He’s a favorite of both sides of the One True Party, the Business Party of America.

Sound interesting?

This past Saturday at 11:00am local time, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia was found dead “lying in perfect repose” (“His hands were sort of almost folded on top of the sheets,” John B. Poindexter, the property’s owner) in his bed at Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas. The ranch is a sprawling 30,000 acre retreat favored by the rich and famous for it’s exclusivity and privacy.

John B. Poindexter, owner of the Cibolo Creek Ranch, is a well known backer of Democratic Party candidates. He made his money as a vulture capitalist: running leveraged buyouts of US manufacturing firms, liquidating most, keeping a few. Basically, he’s Gordon Geeko...
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Very interesting.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby 82_28 » Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:23 am

I am hella confused. Like seriously. Just think, we're the rigorous and intuitive ones, so to speak. What the fuck is going on here?
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby RocketMan » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:35 am

The TPP angle does muddy the waters some...

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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby divideandconquer » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:05 am

I'm not saying this is the case, but since it's not unusual or suspicious for a 79-year old to die in their sleep, it makes it very easy to murder and cover up his death. Anyway, regardless of your opinion of Scalia, his death is somewhat timely for some.

Here Are Six All-Important Cases Now Pretty Much Decided After Scalia's Death

The untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia will likely decide several hot-button cases.
—By Stephanie Mencimer
| Sat Feb. 13, 2016 8:59 PM EST

The last time a sitting Supreme Court justice expired on the job was in 2005, when Chief Justice William Rehnquist died of cancer. But Rehnquist's death was somewhat expected, and he died in September, before the start of the October term, and before the court was in full swing with oral arguments and case decisions. Justice Antonin Scalia, unfortunately, has died smack in the middle of a blockbuster court term, with a host of hot-button cases argued, or about to be argued, and all to be decided by the end of June.

Because of the polarized nature of the court, Scalia's death makes it all but certain that in most of those cases, the votes will result in a 4-4 tie, which means that the decision of the lower courts will likely stand unless one of the justices goes off the reservation and votes with the opposite side. That means we can probably predict the outcome of several key cases without having to wait until June.

The results are a mixed bag. The Obama administration is likely to lose an important fight over immigration. Unions win. Reproductive rights for women could suffer. And challenges to redistricting are likely to founder.

Here's a rundown of how six of those cases are likely to unfold:

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association: Perhaps the biggest beneficiaries of Scalia's death are public sector unions. This case, which produced one of the more contentious oral arguments of the term, was headed towards a 5-4 decision in favor of Rebecca Friedrichs and the other plaintiffs who were challenging the California's teachers' union's right to charge public school employees fees to cover the costs of the collective bargaining it did on their behalf, even though they aren't members of the union. The case was teed up by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, and labor supporters feared a ruling against the union could devastate what's left of labor's power. The lawyers for Friedrichs asked the lower court to rule against them to hasten the case's arrival at the Supreme Court. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals complied, and now that decision is likely to stand if the liberal-conservative split on the court delivers a 4-4 vote. Labor wins.

US v Texas: Texas and nearly two dozen other states filed suit to block the implementation of President Barack Obama's orders to the Department of Homeland Security to defer the deportation of about 5.5 million immigrants, especially children brought to the US illegally by their parents. In November, the ultra-conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding a lower court decision, ruled that Obama had exceeded his authority to make such sweeping changes to the immigration system without an act of Congress. Obama's move was in trouble even with Scalia on the court, but now it seems likely that a tie vote will result in the Fifth Circuit's ruling holding fast. Immigrants lose.

Evenwel v Abbott and Harris v Arizona Independent Redistricting: These cases both involve attacks on the drawing of legislative districts and involve the sorts of political issues that the court has historically avoided, preferring to leave politics and redistricting fights to the politicians. Rulings in favor of the plaintiffs--mostly tea party activists--would likely result in political districts more tilted to favor rural, white Republican voters. Both cases came to the court on appeal from unusual three-judge courts that are specifically delegated to hear certain sorts of election law and voting rights cases. Those trial courts are different in that appeals of their decisions go straight to the US Supreme Court, bypassing the traditional federal appellate courts. Conservatives in recent years have used these courts as a way of fast-tracking their cases to the now-very conservative Supreme Court. The landmark Citizens United case came to the court this way. Now, though, that fast track is going to grind to a halt, as the plaintiffs in both cases lost in the three-judge courts, whose decisions are likely to now stand. Tea partiers lose.

Women's Whole Health v Hellerstedt and Zubik v Burwell: The court is poised to hear several major challenges involving women's reproductive health rights. In Women's Whole Health, the court will decide whether Texas's restrictive abortion law, which has already resulted in the closure of many clinics and, if fully enforced, would close even more clinics and force women in Texas to travel long distances or leave the state in search of a legal abortion, is constitutional. The conservative Fifth Circuit upheld most of the law, but the Supreme Court blocked parts of it from taking effect until the case could be heard. If there's a tie at the Supreme Court, the abortion clinics are all but doomed.

In Zubik, a host of religious organizations, including the Little Sisters of the Poor, have asked the court to block a requirement by the Obama administration that they sign a form asking for a religious exemption for providing mandatory contraception coverage in their insurance plans for employees that's required by the Affordable Care Act. Virtually all of the lower courts have ruled against the nuns and the other organizations, declaring that signing a piece of paper isn't much of a burden on religious liberty. So a tied Supreme Court vote is likely to result in a victory for the Obama administration. Nuns lose.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Tue Feb 16, 2016 10:02 am

chump » Mon Feb 15, 2016 11:24 pm wrote:
https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2016/0 ... s-whacked/

The Odd Death of Antonin Scalia
Posted on February 15, 2016 by willyloman

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: I wonder what Justice Scalia, a strict constitutionalist, thought about the TPP, the TTIP and their Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions? Because not only do these provisions undermine US law as it stands, but they also supersede the constitution and even rulings of the Supreme Court.

Obama and the leaders of 11 other nations signed the TPP earlier this month. Obama was granted Fast Track authority, but the corporate bill of rights passing as a “trade deal” will still have to be approved by the senate in an up or down vote. It will pass and Obama will sign it leaving just one obstacle: it will certainly be challenged in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it is not constitutional.

Scalia was apparently brought out to the ranch owned by a vulture capitalist to meet with 35 substantial business people shortly after Obama signed the TPP and Obama’s offering to take Scalia’s place is a pro-business neoliberal shill?

Interesting timing, right?

—-

Justice Scalia was found lying with hands folded on top of the sheets. It was first reported that he was found by a housekeeper, then the story changed and he was found by the owner of the ranch and “a friend”. By time they called anyone about the death, Scalia was already cold and they failed to inform any of the authorities of the identity of the deceased. Justices are provided security by the US Marshal Service which didn’t appear to be on the scene at the time of Scalia’s passing. The cause of death was determined to have been by “natural causes” by local officials “over the phone” based on “credible information” provided by that same ranch owner and “a friend”. At first officials said he died of a heart attack but now that official says she “misspoke”. The hearse carrying Scalia away was a “decoy” and the family has opted out of an autopsy.

Scalia was brought there to meet with 35 “substantial business people” and Obama has offered up a “business friendly” judge as a possible replacement for him on the court. A business friendly judge who defended Enron, Rio Tinto and Exxon mobile back in his days of practicing law. He’s a favorite of both sides of the One True Party, the Business Party of America.

Sound interesting?

This past Saturday at 11:00am local time, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia was found dead “lying in perfect repose” (“His hands were sort of almost folded on top of the sheets,” John B. Poindexter, the property’s owner) in his bed at Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas. The ranch is a sprawling 30,000 acre retreat favored by the rich and famous for it’s exclusivity and privacy.

John B. Poindexter, owner of the Cibolo Creek Ranch, is a well known backer of Democratic Party candidates. He made his money as a vulture capitalist: running leveraged buyouts of US manufacturing firms, liquidating most, keeping a few. Basically, he’s Gordon Geeko...
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Wonder if he's related to another John Poindexter. :shrug:

"He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran–Contra affair."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poindexter
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby chump » Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:06 am

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/th ... white-hat/

The Man In the White Hat
John Poindexter insists that he can restore 46,000 acres of Big Bend Ranch State Park to its original splendor. If only he could persuade the state to sell— and the angry conservationists to trust him.

THERE IS SIMPLY NO OTHER PLACE TO BEGIN. John Poindexter, Houston-born multimillionaire owner of exclusive Big Bend resort Cibolo Creek Ranch, is one stiff dude.

For proof, consider his assessment of himself. After being interviewed for this story in December, Poindexter sent me a series of clarifying e-mails. The first one began as follows: “I have been giving some thought to the complexity of the task that you have set for yourself and in an attempt to be helpful I have provided some random thoughts below. … Personal outlook. I regard myself as an inwardly focused person, one who has devoted most of his personal time to writing, research and the avocation of studying the Spanish language. That, together with a monolithic dedication to my two businesses—J.B. Poindexter & Co. and Cibolo Creek Ranch—has virtually eliminated the usual social give-and-take from my existence. Consequently, I do just fine in formal situations and public presentations (like speeches to our executives) but I do not shine in day-to-day chit-chat.”

Or, to put it in the context of the region he calls home when he’s not working in Houston, hear Brewster County judge Val Beard: “John’s manner is not that of a West Texan.” ...
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby NeonLX » Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:20 am

I *always* sleep with a pillow over my head. I've done that since I was young. I'm a light sleeper and the pillow helps muffle sound and keep the light out. I even wear foam earplugs at night.

I tend to sleep on my side though, not face up.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Luther Blissett » Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:46 am

NeonLX » Tue Feb 16, 2016 10:20 am wrote:I *always* sleep with a pillow over my head. I've done that since I was young. I'm a light sleeper and the pillow helps muffle sound and keep the light out. I even wear foam earplugs at night.

I tend to sleep on my side though, not face up.


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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:10 pm


Justice Scalia Will Lie In Repose At The Supreme Court On Friday
(with the pillow under his head?)

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... -on-friday
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Grizzly » Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:45 pm

Jesus bury this gumba, already ...encase his toxic ass with concrete so he won't contaminate anyone else.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby brekin » Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:27 pm

I think we need to see what this pillow looked like...

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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Tue Feb 16, 2016 2:07 pm

^^^

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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby norton ash » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:43 pm

When a supreme court justice drops dead... and two crazy men and a rappin granny are running for president... only
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Joao » Tue Feb 16, 2016 6:47 pm

The following from Cryptome's twitter (presumably by John Young) seems pretty plausible to me, and would go a long way in explaining the associated oddities:

Cryptome wrote:Scalia's fantastic passing reminds of Rocky Rockefeller's. Outback Texas ranches are plush bordellos. Press in on it.

Regarding Rockefeller, Wikipedia informs us of the following:

Wikipedia wrote:[Nelson] Rockefeller died on January 26, 1979, at age 70 from a heart attack. An initial report had incorrectly stated that he was at his office at Rockefeller Center working on a book about his art collection, and a security guard found him slumped over his desk. However, the report was soon corrected to state that Rockefeller actually had the fatal heart attack in another office he owned in a townhouse at 13 West 54th Street in the presence of Megan Marshack, a 25-year-old aide. After the heart attack, Marshack called her friend, news reporter Ponchitta Pierce, to the townhouse, and Pierce phoned an ambulance approximately an hour after the heart attack. There was some speculation in the press regarding the possibility of an intimate relationship between Rockefeller and Marshack. For example, long-time Rockefeller aide Joseph E. Persico said in the PBS documentary about the Rockefeller family "It became known that he had been alone with a young woman who worked for him, in undeniably intimate circumstances, and in the course of that evening had died from a heart attack."
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Iamwhomiam » Tue Feb 16, 2016 7:19 pm

That was a flashback, for sure! Joao, the 44 storey Corning Tower at the Nelson Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is colloquially known as Rocky's Last Erection. Alas, 'twas the young lady last to kiss his ass. It was reported that he had his shoes on the wrong feet and his shirt mussed and misbuttoned. Not sure if she had been wearing a blue dress, though.

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