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Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby RocketMan » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:10 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb ... ?CMP=fb_gu

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

The San Antonio Express News reported that Scalia was found dead on Saturday at a ranch in the Big Bend region of Texas, south of Marfa.

Local ABC affiliate KVIA reported that Scalia died in his sleep after a day of quail hunting.

The San Antonio Express News report said Scalia had been staying at a ranch, for a private party, and was discovered to have died after not attending a breakfast.


"Private party" at a ranch, you say...
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby vince » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:17 pm

HOLY COW!!!!
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby kelley » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:24 pm

Hopefully burning in the Hell of his Opus Dei convictions at this very moment.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:30 pm

Obama gets to appoint a judge!!!! :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping:


what is Clarence Thomas gonna do now??? he'll be a lost little puppy
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Burnt Hill » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:47 pm

And what is this all about?
Frankly, details are still up in the air as to what might happen to the Supreme Court line-up in the wake of Scalia's death. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery told My San Antonio, "My reaction is it's very unfortunate. It's unfortunate with any death, and politically in the presidential cycle we're in, my educated guess is nothing will happen before the next president is elected."

http://www.bustle.com/articles/141697-who-will-replace-antonin-scalia-the-supreme-court-justice-was-found-dead-at-79
*wishful thinking by U.S. District Judge Fred Biery?
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Asta » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:55 pm

Obama will not get a Supreme Court Justice confirmed unless Congress has an epiphany on the road to Damascus and sees the Light.

Meanwhile, the remaining Court is 4 to 4, and nothing will get accomplished in the two sessions this year. However, that might not be such a bad thing when ya think about it.

How old is Clarence Thomas BTW?
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:59 pm

..

Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at "Slower" Colleges


December 10, 2015, 10:29 am
Reid: Scalia's 'racist' comments worse than Trump


Scalia defends comparing homosexuality to murder and bestiality

Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder.

“It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the ‘reduction to the absurd,’” Scalia told [freshman Duncan] Hosie of San Francisco during the question-and-answer period. “If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?”





Scalia on how “easy” his job is — Earlier this year, Scalia was given the opportunity to elucidate his “textualist” approach to the Constitution and how that meant that for him controversial topics like the death penalty, abortion and gay marriage were all “easy.”


Scalia says sex discrimination is constitutionally okay


Scalia uses restrictions against emancipated slaves against the DREAM Act



Scalia undecided on if there’s a right to bear a rocket launcher In discussing the Aurora shootings earlier this year, Justice Scalia told a Fox news host that he firmly backed the right to bear arms, clarifying this did not include manning a cannon but that there might be an argument for carrying a rocket launcher.


http://www.care2.com/causes/5-absurd-scalia-quotes-you-just-wont-believe.html#ixzz405kBR6P5
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:04 pm

RocketMan » Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:10 pm wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/13/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dead-at-79?CMP=fb_gu

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

The San Antonio Express News reported that Scalia was found dead on Saturday at a ranch in the Big Bend region of Texas, south of Marfa.

Local ABC affiliate KVIA reported that Scalia died in his sleep after a day of quail hunting.

The San Antonio Express News report said Scalia had been staying at a ranch, for a private party, and was discovered to have died after not attending a breakfast.


"Private party" at a ranch, you say...


Was Dick Cheney a member of the hunting party? :wink

"Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Mishap on a Texas Ranch
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/polit ... .html?_r=0
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:05 pm

Asta » Sat Feb 13, 2016 5:55 pm wrote:Obama will not get a Supreme Court Justice confirmed unless Congress has an epiphany on the road to Damascus and sees the Light.

Meanwhile, the remaining Court is 4 to 4, and nothing will get accomplished in the two sessions this year. However, that might not be such a bad thing when ya think about it.


I raise a toast to your clarity of analysis; Very Much Yes.

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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:06 pm

A History of Opposition to Reproductive Freedom

• Since Scalia joined the Court in 1986, he has consistently voted in to limit or entirely abolish the constitutional protection for a woman’s right to choose.2

• He has held that a woman’s right to choose is not protected by the Constitution3 and that given the chance he would “explicitly” overrule Roe v. Wade.4

• He also supports the reversal of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 case that limited but did not overrule Roe v. Wade’s core protection for a woman’s right to choose.5

• In 2007, he voted to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban, federal legislation that outlaws certain second-trimester abortions and does not include any exception for when a woman’s health is threatened.6

• In the Federal Abortion Ban case, he joined Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion, which stated that “the Court’s abortion jurisprudence, including Casey and Roe v. Wade has no basis in the Constitution.”7

• He supports a return to a pre-Roe framework of abortion regulation, which would allow states to criminalize abortion.8

• Scalia voted against the constitutionality of certain measures, upheld by the majority of the Court, that were designed to protect clinics from anti-choice violence.9

• Scalia also wrote the majority opinion in a case that found that anti-choice clinic blockaders did not violate federal civil rights laws.10

• Scalia supports extreme restrictions on a minor’s right to choose and would uphold mandatory parental notice requirements, even those that do not allow for the option of going to a judge in order to get around the notification requirement.11

• Scalia has consistently voted to uphold bans on the use of public funds for abortions.12


“[T]he Constitution contains no right to abortion.”13

“Roe was plainly wrong — even on the Court's methodology of ‘reasoned judgment,’ and even
more so (of course) if the proper criteria of text and tradition are applied.”14

“The issue is whether [abortion] is a liberty protected by the Constitution of the United States. I am sure it is not. . . . (1)[T]he Constitution says absolutely nothing about it, and (2) the longstanding traditions of American society have permitted it to be legally proscribed.”15

“If only for the sake of its own preservation, the Court should return this matter to the people — where the Constitution, by its silence on the subject, left it — and let them decide, State by State, whether this practice should be allowed. Casey must be overruled.”16

“I am optimistic enough to believe that, one day, Stenberg v. Carhart will be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court’s jurisprudence beside Korematsu and Dred Scott.”17

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/gove...nin-scalia.pdf
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:12 pm

Do you all hear that sucking sound?


It's Scalia being siphoned from my vagina



Justice Scalia: Women Have No Constitutional Right Of Privacy To Use Contraception
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says that the pivotal decision which reversed a law that prohibited women from using contraception is not supported under his interpretation of the Constitution. During an interview on Sunday, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Scalia why he believed that it is a “lie” that women have a Constitutional right of privacy to choose to have an abortion and to use contraception.


At the top of the video Justice Scalia and Wallace discuss the so called strict constructionist originalism and textualism constitutional argument that only the exact words written in the constitution, rather than an understanding and application of the principles, within the modern world context, that the framers were attempting to define, may be considered by the American judicial system. Later (9:15-11:30) they discuss Scalia's view that women have no constitutional right of privacy to choose to use contraception or have an abortion.
Many people today do not remember that the sales and use of contraceptive products, even by married couples, were against the law in many states until the mid-1960's.

Even the distribution of books and pamphlets about contraceptive products and practices was illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled such state laws unconstitutional in its 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision. The court based its Griswold decision partially on the grounds that such state laws violated a married couple's right to privacy in making their own private family planning decisions.

Social conservatives hold the Supreme Court's Griswold “right to privacy” declaration with contempt because it is the foundation of the court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Citing the Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird decisions, which were based on justifications of privacy, the Justice Burger Court extended the right of privacy to include a woman's right to have an abortion in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Justice Scalia told Fox News host Chris Wallace during the interview:

“Nobody ever thought that the America people voted to prohibit limitations on abortions,” the 76-year-old conservative justice explained. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that.”

“What about the right to privacy that the court found in 1965?” Wallace pressed.

“There’s no right to privacy in the Constitution — no generalized right to privacy,” Scalia insisted.

“Well, in the Griswold case, the court said there was,” Wallace pointed out.

“Yeah, it did,” Scalia agreed. “And that was wrong.”

Justice Thomas’ dissent in Lawrence v. Texas leaves little doubt that he also would overrule Griswold if given the chance, and Chief Justice Roberts disparaged Griswold in a Memorandum he drafted in 1981 to the Attorney General, although he claimed to have backed away from that view in his confirmation hearing.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Burnt Hill » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:21 pm

Asta » Sat Feb 13, 2016 6:55 pm wrote:Obama will not get a Supreme Court Justice confirmed unless Congress has an epiphany on the road to Damascus and sees the Light.

Meanwhile, the remaining Court is 4 to 4, and nothing will get accomplished in the two sessions this year. However, that might not be such a bad thing when ya think about it.

How old is Clarence Thomas BTW?

Hmmmnn.... thanks Asta.
for harshing my buzz :wink
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby 82_28 » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:24 pm

Republicans are already saying that Obama should not be allowed to appoint.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Asta » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:30 pm

So Scalia didn't show up for breakfast. Texas is in the Central Time Zone, yes? Breaking news on the east coast at around 5 pm? How late in the day is Breakfast in Texas I do wonder...

Why am I reminded of Lamar Odom?

As mentioned above, was Cheney in the hunting party?

Think maybe there was some "cleaning up" to do before dropping the news bomb on the public, like "holy cow, where are we gonna hide all the sex toys???? How much freaking Viagra did the dude need?!?!? Quick, flush this stuff. Oh wait, that looks suspicious, too. I don't think that's Sweet and Low, better flush that. Is that a bottle of virgin blood or Cheney's stash of Essence of Kittens??? OMG, are these pictures of Scalia's great grandchildren or...OMG!!!"

Then the toilet exploded.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby 82_28 » Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:34 pm

On the other hand I just read that it would be in the best interest of Rs to let it go as fast as possible because it will become a campaign issue.
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