Law Scalia Died today

[speakhandsforme]

RIP.

Even as a leftist, there are too many great Scalia opinions for me to even choose one to say is my favorite. Truly a brilliant man. Anyone who politicizes this is garbage.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Wow.

In before Obama false flag assassination.

 

[carlos cadona]

People are already going crazy talking about how they need to block Obama from replacing him before he leaves office.

 

[Lead]

11 months seems like along time for the Court to be a person short. I'm not sure Congress is going to able to obstruct an appointment that long.

Don't they recess after like August though? I'm not certain but I think it slows down after the summer.

 

[Fawlty]

People are already going crazy talking about how they need to block Obama from replacing him before he leaves office.

That's not going to happen. Had he died in June or something, then we would see something crazy-crazy. As it stands I think it will merely be crazy.

 

[Gluteus Swag]

I expect Anita Sarkeesian to replace him

Thanks Obama

 

[Islam Imamate]

So Obama gets another SCOTUS appointment?

 

[ncordless]

Holy shit!

 

[GSP in 2006]

Don't they recess after like August though? I'm not certain but I think it slows down after the summer.

Yeah August, so Congress would have to hold out for 6 months. Still a good chunk of time.

 

[Rod1]

Why do the american system appoints judges for life? maybe they didnt realized how much medical science would advance?

Seems to me like a huge breach of accountability and pretty much dooming younger generations by the choices of the older generations.

 

[bad seed]

2015-2016 Obama is solidified as one of the greatest presidential years ever; and with one last SC choice, his opponents will taste their own tears for decades to come.

Good riddance to Scalia.

 

[NelmarksGhost]

I expect Anita Sarkeesian to replace him

Thanks Obama

That would be awesome. Obama will have appointed 3 females. Imagine if he made them give a "special interview" before they got the job. And Bill Clinton thought he was a player.

 

[ocean size]

One less thing to worry about regarding who the next POTUS is. OP I will say you have inspired me to look into some more of his rulings and how he may have shaped law positively.

 

[K1levelgrappler]

Time for Obama to appoint a transsexual Muslim for maximum wingnut outrage.

 

[ocean size]

That would be awesome. Obama will have appointed 3 females. Imagine if he made them give a "special interview" before they got the job. And Bill Clinton thought he was a player.

"I'll do anything for this Job Mr. POTUS.... anything at all"

 

[Anung Un Rama]

One less thing to worry about regarding who the next POTUS is. OP I will say you have inspired me to look into some more of his rulings and how he may have shaped law positively.

I think, and please correct me if I'm wrong, this makes the next election even more important.
Wasn't Ginsberg waiting until next year to retire because there wouldn't be time for Obama have another Justice appointed?

 

[Satanical Eve]

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
--Clarence Darrow

 

[GSP in 2006]

Why do the american system appoints judges for life? maybe they didnt realized how much medical science would advance?

Seems to me like a huge breach of accountability and pretty much dooming younger generations by the choices of the older generations.

Lifetime appointments are supposed to insulate the Justices from pressure to rule in popular ways to maintain their jobs.

 

[NelmarksGhost]

Time for Obama to appoint a transsexual Muslim for maximum wingnut outrage.

There would be mass suicides on the right.

 

[Higus]

Why do the american system appoints judges for life? maybe they didnt realized how much medical science would advance?

Seems to me like a huge breach of accountability and pretty much dooming younger generations by the choices of the older generations.

The founding father's had a lot of wisdom in these kind of things. They designed the government to be stable, not reactive. Could you imagine what the country would be like if the Supreme Court changed every 4 years?