Discussion for article #246619
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Tierney, if you have to write about Scalia, be sure you aren’t sitting in a pentagram while you do it. You don’t want to summon him.
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No true Conservative serving as a SCOTUS Justice would die when the White House is occupied by a Democrat!
The loony Republicans had a point though… who needs Scalia when everyone knows exactly how he’s going to vote?
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Yet another big picture of Scalia. Good morning to you too, TPM.
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The Republicans we so sure they were going to run the table and get their way with every decision in this session. They’re seeing it all fall apart with Fat Tony taking a dirt nap.
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Progress is made one obituary at a time.
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[T]he death of Justice Antonin Scalia almost guarantees that conservatives will not be able to issue a majority opinion that would have given states nationwide the freedom to restrict abortion as they pleased.
So…at long last, Doornail Dead Tony Scalia IS finally making a positive contribution to his country and it’s freedoms. Kudos!
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“The lack of Scalia’s ninth vote – one that certainly would have favored the law’s defenders – blunts the potential impact of even an outcome that would amount to a loss for abortion rights activists.” Is this sentence meant to mean something?
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The Supreme Court, 1/9th less Supreme and now with less fat.
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Seems to me it’s a message from God.
Has anyone checked with Pat Robertson, or one of the other grifters He chats with on a regular basis?
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GOOD!
The Scalia double standard must die with him, before we can truly begin turning our country right-side-up again. People who are privileged with extreme wealth, which has never been and will never be possible without a heavy government thumb on their side of the scale, must no longer be treated as the exalted ones, whose rights and privileges are legislated and adjudicated worthier than ordinary people’s of ordinary means.
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The challengers will also face a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday that will likely be a little less hostile, without Scalia on the bench to badger them
It would seem that Thomas is warming up his chords to fill in the vacancy —
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With scags dead, the SCOTUS news just keeps getting better and better!
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Clearly the constitution demands that an audio-animatronic robot be programmed with all of Scalia’s nastiest zingers to disrupt oral argument. We know what he would have said, after all.
Oh, and in the future, can you please at least put scare quotes around “partial-birth” – it’s a term that’s entirely the creation of the anti-choice crowd. Makes almost as much sense to talk about partial-birth appendectomies.
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With Scalia’s timely death, I would say God has spoken, so to the Evangelicals what do you make of such an obvious sign.
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It’s infuriating that conservatives are obsessed with placing barriers to women’s right to an abortion: waiting periods, mandatory ultrasounds, forcing them to take multiple days off work to jump through hoops, 100-mile drives to a clinic, medically unnecessary regulations on clinics, etc.
And yet, the very act of filling out a government form declaring their conscientious objection to providing their employees with contraceptive coverage is an onerous burden on their religious freedom.
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Think of all the money spent getting these cases to the Supreme Court this session.
Cost of litigation? Tens of millions.
Look on the bagger faces now that they realize they are going to lose? Priceless!
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Scalia was the embodiment of How Politics Makes us Stupid. He is specifically called out as a particularly disturbing example by the study’s lead author. In a nutshell, more intelligence and better information does’t lead partisans to converge on correct answers and effective solutions; instead we just become more effective seeking what we want to hear to support our prejudices. President Obama needs to nominate a replacement who doesn’t do that.
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Shorter: Scalia’s death ensures bad, rather than horrible, outcome.
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Sadly, this is just another time I’ve thought, “Thank God, he’s dead.”
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