Discussion: Flags Ordered At Half-Staff For Justice Scalia

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Don’t know about you other boys, but my flag was flying full staff this morning. :wink:

(My apologies to anyone with tender sensibilities).

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I don’t think the Republicans have fully thought through (as usual) the consequences of their actions.

The Democrats can make the case that with such a long vacancy the Republicans will have effectively changed the number from Justices for the first time in history from 9 to 8.

They can thus refuse to confirm any Justices should they control the Senate and the Republicans win in 2016. Or conversely, they can claim since the Republicans have broken the precedent of the number or Justices being 9, why not 15? Next time they control the Senate and the Presidency, they can add 4, 6 or any number of Justices.

Republicans can never seem to think further ahead than whats best for them today.

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The Onion won the Innertubes’ with the very best tweet concerning and to salute Fat Tony:

Well, as my wife said, “We know Scalia is in a better place. They DID fly him out of Texas.”

(*I love that woman.)

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BeattyCat salutes ‘The Onion.’

edited to add: … and sherlock1’s wife!

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FollowJustice Wainwright‏
@JusticeBlaine
Antonin #Scalia requested cremation in his will, but millions of women will meet tomorrow to discuss if that’s really best for his body.

Winner tweet!

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I wonder if Republicans will change their tune when it becomes clear that Bernie Sanders is going to win the presidency and a friendly senate in a landslide for Democrats.

Imagine whom president Sanders will nominate for the Supreme Court.

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Oh, you mean the Sanders that called Scalia “brilliant”. Here’s an example of Scalia’s brilliance:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/17/56525/scalia-actual-innocence/

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the
execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but
is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually”
innocent.

RIP and thank God.

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Dont forget Saint Ronnie appointed Sandra Day O’Connor. I would ask her to come out of retirement for a year or so. Call their bluff so to speak.

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Ted Cruz, one of two GOP senators running for president, tells NBC’s
“Meet the Press” that “we’re advising that a lame-duck president in an
election year is not going to be able to tip the balance of the Supreme
Court.”

You apparently haven’t noticed that Obama far from a lame duck.

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But, the flagpoles were raised to twice their normal height thus nullifying the otherwise ridiculousness of grieving over a hateful, self-centered, partisan hack that lied about his health to the last second.

Maybe they can bury him with his ass half way out of the ground so that he can be used as a bike rack and actually do some good for a change.

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Lame duckery occurs after the November election chooses President Obama’s replacement. Unfortunately, GOP fuckery is not thus restrained.

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