Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia found dead in Texas.
Democrat Presidents do not appoint “swing votes.”
The Democrat-run, Republican majority senate will rubber stamp whoever Obama picks with only a token show of opposition.
Obama will doubtless seek to appoint the most far left justice he can find, which should be easy, the courts are packed with radical leftists. He will also need to satisfy the entire spectrum of the Democrat coalition. I don’t know where he is going to find a dead black transgendered illegal immigrant Muslim felon to appoint to the court, but I know that Mitch McConnell will approve hyr.
Look to the people who celebrate his death. They are the enemy.
Dancing on the grave of someone you disagree with is not just something done by those on the left. Celebrate their defeat, but not their death.
And their celebration is premature, anyway. McConnell, in a rare case of testicular fortitude, has already said that the senate will NOT consider any nominee this year.
@ Craig Smith: That’s what McConnell says now. Let’s see how he feels after the Regressive Left Media castigates him for a couple weeks. Perhaps he’ll “reconsider” his position, or “realize the need for a full Supreme Court,” and urge that, “for the sake of political unity,” the Senate will expedite the hearing process.
It would be great if McConnell kept his word on this, but I don’t have great faith that he will–especially when the press turns on the pressure and nasty articles about him start appearing in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
I can’t resist pointing out that on Facebook, some of the many liberals on my newsfeed were critiquing McConnell for “politicizing Scalia’s death so quickly.” Yeah, right. They were just upset that McConnell beat Obama to the punch on this one. Obama, I’m sure, already has a list of potential justices ready to go, and I bet he was planning to name one early next week.
@ Kurt: Yes, funny how when Obama demands immediate political action in the wake of a death, he’s just being prudent, nay, heroic…
There are no protestants on the court, 3 jews is way too much for 2% of the population. Isn’t there someone with the Supremes at all time that could have saved him? If not someone should take out ads telling people if you want to suicide by cop here are some addresses.
Some the of the protectorate of the opinion that the president should be allowed to exercise his constitutional authority and nominate a successor forthwith are using the “But…but..Kennedy!” defense (as a recent example of when an election year nomination to SCOTUS was confirmed) without apparently realizing that was a third-time’s-the-charm nomination, after the nominations of Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsberg went down in flames, with a much longer lead time.
So fine, let the Greatest Constitutional Scholar Evah! To Become President appoint a nominee and let the Senate knock him/her down. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
I like your suggestion, RSG, but I have no faith in the ability of the fools in the Senate to be able to stick to such a course of action. The Democrats killed the Bork and Ginsberg nomination because they and their pals in the press always play to win. Far too many of the Republicans don’t seem to have figured that out yet; instead, far too many of them think that if they just go along and give the Democrats and the press what they want, people will like them more.
I have complete faith that Barry will manage. Finding a moderate Protestant white male or female Jurist being damned-near irrelevant and anathema.
While not suggesting a religious-test, I do find the lack of any Protestants on the USSC disquieting in the long-term.
“Let’s throw gay people in jail because some people don’t like them”
“Laws banning homosexual sex are like laws banning murder…And like laws banning child pornography, incest and bestiality”
“Homosexual couples are like roommates”
“Have gays and lesbians tried NOT having homosexual sex?”
As someone who has said this about gays, I have no reason to mourn his passing.
“While not suggesting a religious-test, I do find the lack of any Protestants on the USSC disquieting in the long-term.”
Who was the last Jewish president??
Someone needs to put the heat under McConnell. You let Scalia be replaced by a liberal “living document” judge and you can kiss our Constitution goodbye. Forever.
Which makes debate co-moderator Gwen Ifil’s comment-in-the-form-of-a-question to Bernie Sanders at the last DNC debate so insulting, because how dare someone have the temerity to deny Queen Cackles her rightful place on the throne as the First Woman President—particularly a lowly kike.
#6 Steve:
And there are 5 Catholics on the Court. Not very diverse according to the libs.
I’m also concerned about the lack of Protestants on the Court. We ARE a Protestant nation, after all.
We were.
Mainline Protestants now only represent 15% of the American Population. The Catholics (21%) and the Evangelicals (30%) account for the balance — maybe 70% Christian today. When I was born it was nearly 95% self-identifying as Christian.
After hearing a weekend’s-worth of punditry I’m torn. One faction wants a Court that will sanction breaking down my bedroom door, demand I worship their Gods, while their cronies pick my pockets. The other side wants a Court that will sanction to breaking-down my firewall, strangling my business in regulations, confiscating my guns, and redistributing my income and property to the undeserving poor.
Evangelicals are also Protestant.
True, but politically the Mainline Protestants and the Evangelical Protestants are two vastly-separate polities with different agendas and electoral interests.
Scalia’s most outrageous legal opinion was that exonerating evidence of a crime should never be reconsidered, even in cases of the death penalty. As far as he was concerned the declared guilty are guilty and as long as specified legal procedures have been followed proof of innocence should be ignored, or as he put it in
stunningly callous fashion: “Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”
The man was unbelievably evil.
And so are the people who want someone just like him to be appointed to the supreme court.
Correction:
The quote I attributed to Scalia, “Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.” cannot be verified.
Here’s a verified Scalia quote from the court ruling:
“I can understand, or at least am accustomed to, the reluctance of the present Court to admit publicly that Our Perfect Constitution [n.1] lets stand any injustice, much less the execution of an innocent man who has received, though to no avail, all the process that our society has traditionally deemed adequate.”
In other words, in Scalia’s opinion, your Constitution would let stand the execution of an innocent man who has received all the due process your society deems adequate and there is nothing that Federal courts can or should do to stop such an execution.