President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to name Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court justice, as his new labor secretary nominee.
The only good news for us is that this will not be an appointment for life like his daddy had.
A son of a bitch (seldom has that saying been more appropriate) is nominated by our porcine embarrassment. I hope the guy is not the same ideologue his father was. God! I hated that associate justice.
TPM can you please provide background information/credentials on the new appointee.
Can you identify what Labor policies he supports/opposes?
Or should we understand that he like most Trump appointees is incompetent, corrupt & is there to systematically dismantle the department and will not regulate human sex trafficking.
I don’t know much about his policies, but I do know some of the other Scalia kids, and they are quite reasonable, friendly nice people. In fact one of them seems to have fallen so far from the tree that she was probably shot from a cannon and then aided by a strong wind.
Scalia fell out of the Barr tree. There you have it.
Background!
Same-old, same-old. A secretary of HUD who wants to do away with public housing. An EPA director who wants to make our air and water worse. A labor secretary who’s anti-labor. A commerce secretary who’s a crook. All from the same mold.
You can be reasonable, friendly and nice and still be a yahoo. In person, Barry Goldwater was a nice guy. (Ronald Reagan, according to Tip O’Neil, less so.) This Scalia’s father and RBG were great friends. But his is not someone we’re asking over for a cook-out, it’s the person who is supposed to represent the interests of working Americans. And on that score, this one sounds like a zero.
It’s all a television presidency. It’s like you could be sure Little Ricky would be singing Babalu in the club if I Love Lucy went on another ten seasons.
Barr-trash.
Labor Sec.? Gah, doubt he has any expertise in that area.
Seems to be the only qualification is “who’s your daddy?”
Postman??
Third-string secretaries are worse than second-string SC justices. But at least they won’t last (as) long,
As a true son of his father, his goal will be to divine the original intent of the Department of Labor and run it in accord with a strict construction of the text set forth in the Constitution.
He’s the son of one of the smartest idiots to burden our public life in recent decades. I don’t think that the genetics involved enable us to make any predictions, since I doubt that idiocy or cleverness at Antonin Scalia’s level, much less his histrionic style, is simply or directly traceable back to genes. But if this scion of Scalia feels the need to imitate his father, then we’re in for some operatic magnitude eruptions of malignant nonsense.
Ahh. Rethuglican welfare at its finest.
Another “son-of-a” to latch on to daddy’s “achievements.”
Poor, poor Meghan McCain. She, too, could have been on the second generation gravy train if only her daddy had not maintained a shred of decency.
After returning to private practice, Scalia argued for the plaintiffs in Wal-Mart v. Maryland in July 2006, which invalidated a state law under which large companies with at least 10,000 employees would have been required to spend at least 8% of their payroll on employee healthcare
k, back to humming Jon Moxley’s NJPW theme.
I would say that Labor was one of the three cabinet departments that Rick Perry wanted to abolish – because, as you point out, it’s not in the Constitution – but I can’t remember which three those were. Or was it four?