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I live in Arizona, I work the elections for one of the counties, and I am profoundly pissed off that this cretin is helping fix elections for the GOP, er, helping make election laws here.
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aren’t these the same guys that complain that voting from the grave is proof of voter fraud?
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Pretty sure I called this one as soon as he died.
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The general rule is: dead justices don’t vote," Ryan added. “I mean, that sounds cruel…”
GOP: Dead justices can’t change their mind and hence their vote must count.
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My 94-year old dad passed away in late 2014 and we interred his ashes this past summer. I spent a lot of time with him before he died and he left instructions with me on how he would vote in the General Election this fall. I am going to post that absentee ballot for him.
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This is, frankly, idiotic nonsense that’s not worth our time.
The Supreme Court has more than 200 years of precedent on dealing with these things and that’s not changing no matter what some half-wit Fox News wannabe on local TV thinks should happen.
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We’re equally sure we know how Justice William O. Douglas would have voted on these cases, too. Let’s count his votes.
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I’m ashamed to admit that I still get surprised by how low, irrational, and unfair the Republicans will go to delegitimize votes or tilt them in their favor.
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The Court should have read the decision once the vote was cast. Now, …
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It is idiotic nonsense, but we have an obligation to call it out as such loudly and clearly. Otherwise we could end up with a President Trump. Never underestimate these people.
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“Think about it in the legislative context. If you had the closest vote possible — 50-50 senators, evenly divided, the Vice President casts the decisive vote,” he said.
Unless he’s dead.
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He won’t be in the voting district on Election Day, so I guess that meets the requirement for an absentee ballot.
And why stop at one departed relative? It could be like Mormon converts.
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“Think about it in the legislative context. If you had the closest vote possible — 50-50 senators, evenly divided, the Vice President casts the decisive vote,” he said. “Before the President signs it, if one of the senators dies, what do you do? It’s the same thing here.”
Yeah, except in that case the OFFICIAL vote already happened.
STFU. Seriously.
He then served in the U.S. Attorney’s office and worked as a lawyer for Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.
And we know how that turned out.
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Presidents don’t wait months to sign a bill, either. The Supremes have a long history of waiting until the end of a session to read all their decisions. Another case of tradition sometimes screwing things up.
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“There’s no Ouija board required to figure out how Justice Scalia would vote on these things.”
This is true. I’ve been predicting Scalia’s votes for years. And Thomas’, too. All one need do is envision the worst possible outcome for the most people possible and … voilà . No logic or expensive law school education necessary.
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There are a lot of people in graveyards that multiple friends and relatives would attest voted straight Democrat or Republican ticket their entire lives, regardless the candidate or issue at hand. I guess the same logic would have to hold true for their right to absentee ballots, no?
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Got to admit, his argument has a perverse truth to it. Scalia was so dogmatic in his conservatism that his vote on any issue was entirely predictable.
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“We know exactly what he thought. And it’s not unprincipled to say we should give affect to that,” he said.
As this and any other simpleton knows Scalia would have reliably voted to harm the helpless, help the corporate and in a manner that would take "murica back to the early nineteenth century.
Now come closer you little shithead so I can slap some of that shit outta your pointy little head.
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Scalia represents a perfect model for everything that President Obama should avoid in a successor.
He devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy.
Scalia’s name is one we should forget as soon as possible. Let it sink into the muck of history.
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