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http://m.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/article/Senior-Associate-Justi
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During a question and answer session with students at Princeton University, a freshman confronted Scalia about his tendency to equate homosexuality bans and laws against murder and bestiality in his legal writings. “It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the ‘reduction to the absurd,’” the Supreme Court Justice snapped at the student.

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When President Obama passed the DREAM Act, allowing young immigrants to obtain legal citizenship, Arizona created its own immigration law, contradicting some of the newly minted federal mandates. The state law was struck down by the Supreme Court—a decision with which Scalia did not agree, going so far as to suggest that the state should secede. “If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign State,” he wrote. But he also used 19th-century restrictions on freed slaves as backup for his decision, saying that, back in the day, “State laws not only provided for the removal of unwanted immigrants but also imposed penalties on unlawfully present aliens and those who aided their immigration.”

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When discussing the pollutants in the environment, Scalia mistakenly referred to the troposphere as the stratosphere and was corrected by the plaintiff’s representation. Snapping back, he made clear his views on the matter: “Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I’m not a scientist. That’s why I don’t want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.”

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Originally posted by AURAPTOR:
Scalia was a real human person, who has a family and life long friends who loved him, as much as anyone here has.

2 cents worth of decency and humanity apparently is too much to expect from the degenerates who call RWED their home. Sad to say.

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And Justice Thomas has more intellect in his little toe than half the idiots here combined.

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Originally posted by second:
Scalia was found dead in front of an open refrigerator at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in West Texas. Possible cause of death was choking on a fried chicken leg, which is politely known in Texas as “natural causes”.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by whozit:
I hope the Republicans in the Senate have the balls to hold up Barry's next hack. They're saying that the next Prez should make the pick, I hope the Republicans in the Senate drive Barry and the Dems bat shit crazy. But they may cave, BUT the anarchist in me hopes the hold their own.

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:


http://m.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/article/Senior-Associate-Justi
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Absolutely deplorable and worthless thread. No better than militant jihadist who cheer for the deaths of innocent lives. Gutter scum of humanity on display.

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Originally posted by second:
Scalia was found dead in front of an open refrigerator at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in West Texas. Possible cause of death was choking on a fried chicken leg, which is politely known in Texas as “natural causes”.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by AURAPTOR:
Scalia was a real human person, who has a family

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and life long friends who loved him, as much as anyone here has. 2 cents worth of decency and humanity apparently is too much to expect from the degenerates who call RWED their home. Sad to say.

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And Justice Thomas has more intellect in his little toe than half the idiots here combined

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I hope the Republicans in the Senate have the balls to hold up Barry's next hack. They're saying that the next Prez should make the pick, I hope the Republicans in the Senate drive Barry and the Dems bat shit crazy. But they may cave, BUT the anarchist in me hopes the hold their own.

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I hope they do, too. It will give Bernie a chance to appoint Obama to the bench!

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Originally posted by whozit:
How is it he won N.H. but Hillary got more delegates?

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Originally posted by AURAPTOR:
Scalia was a real human person, who has a family and life long friends who loved him, as much as anyone here has.

2 cents worth of decency and humanity apparently is too much to expect from the degenerates who call RWED their home. Sad to say.

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Q: Can we talk about your drafting process—
SALIA: [Leans in, stage-whispers.] I even believe in the Devil.

Q: You do?
SCALIA: Of course! Yeah, he’s a real person. Hey, c’mon, that’s standard Catholic doctrine! Every Catholic believes that.

Q: Every Catholic believes this? There’s a wide variety of Catholics out there …
SCALIA: If you are faithful to Catholic dogma, that is certainly a large part of it.

Q: Have you seen evidence of the Devil lately?
SCALIA: You know, it is curious. In the Gospels, the Devil is doing all sorts of things. He’s making pigs run off cliffs, he’s possessing people and whatnot. And that doesn’t happen very much anymore.

Q: No.
SCALIA: It’s because he’s smart.

Q: So what’s he doing now?
SCALIA: What he’s doing now is getting people not to believe in him or in God. He’s much more successful that way.

Q: That has really painful implications for atheists. Are you sure that’s the ­Devil’s work?
SCALIA: I didn’t say atheists are the Devil’s work.

Q: Well, you’re saying the Devil is ­persuading people to not believe in God. Couldn’t there be other reasons to not believe?
SCALIA: Well, there certainly can be other reasons. But it certainly favors the Devil’s desires. I mean, c’mon, that’s the explanation for why there’s not demonic possession all over the place. That always puzzled me. What happened to the Devil, you know? He used to be all over the place. He used to be all over the New Testament.

Q: Right.
SCALIA: What happened to him?

Q: He just got wilier.
SCALIA: He got wilier.

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Originally posted by AURAPTOR:
Scalia was a real human person, who has a family and life long friends who loved him, as much as anyone here has.

2 cents worth of decency and humanity apparently is too much to expect from the degenerates who call RWED their home. Sad to say.



And Justice Thomas has more intellect in his little toe than half the idiots here combined.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Aw c'mon RAPPY, that picture of the wicked witch under the house was just too funny!

Scalia was just ... weird. His rulings stretched and snapped the boundaries of the Constitution, which he was presumably hired to protect. Some of Scalia's strangest comments, compiled in 2012, so this is no post-morten backstabbing

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During a question and answer session with students at Princeton University, a freshman confronted Scalia about his tendency to equate homosexuality bans and laws against murder and bestiality in his legal writings. “It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the ‘reduction to the absurd,’” the Supreme Court Justice snapped at the student.

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So, Scalia liked to argue the absurd, and then use the absurd to justify his positions. Yeah, we got that.

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When President Obama passed the DREAM Act, allowing young immigrants to obtain legal citizenship, Arizona created its own immigration law, contradicting some of the newly minted federal mandates. The state law was struck down by the Supreme Court—a decision with which Scalia did not agree, going so far as to suggest that the state should secede. “If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign State,” he wrote. But he also used 19th-century restrictions on freed slaves as backup for his decision, saying that, back in the day, “State laws not only provided for the removal of unwanted immigrants but also imposed penalties on unlawfully present aliens and those who aided their immigration.”

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Protecting the boundaries of the USA is clearly a Federal mandate, and the law reference by Scalia was a limited law written for an obsolete purpose.

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When discussing the pollutants in the environment, Scalia mistakenly referred to the troposphere as the stratosphere and was corrected by the plaintiff’s representation. Snapping back, he made clear his views on the matter: “Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I’m not a scientist. That’s why I don’t want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.”

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Not a scientist. Not too knowledgeable about the real world. Yup, we got that too.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/06/8-of-supreme-court-ju
stice-antonin-scalia-s-wildest-comments.html

Scalia was a strict Constitutionalist- EXCEPT WHEN HE WASN'T. He would take ONE train of thought and extend it to the absurd.

Another Justice who would do us all a favor by keeling over is Thomas, Scalia's "me too" vote. He's so stupid, he has never asked a question from the bench since 2006, but prefers to hide his deficiency with an air of inscrutability. He doesn't deserve to be on the bench, simply because of his lack of intellect.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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Originally posted by whozit:
I hope the Republicans in the Senate have the balls to hold up Barry's next hack. They're saying that the next Prez should make the pick, I hope the Republicans in the Senate drive Barry and the Dems bat shit crazy. But they may cave, BUT the anarchist in me hopes the hold their own.

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Originally posted by second:
Supreme Court nominees haven't been confirmed during election years since 1988 because none of them died or retired during an election year. A typical Antonin Scalia opinion would loftily declare it is an American tradition not to confirm Supreme Court justices during an election year. That's how exemplary Scalia’s keen legal mind worked.

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I hope the Republicans in the Senate have the balls to hold up Barry's next hack. They're saying that the next Prez should make the pick, I hope the Republicans in the Senate drive Barry and the Dems bat shit crazy. But they may cave, BUT the anarchist in me hopes the hold their own.

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:


How is Clarence Thomas going to function on the court now, without Scalia's hand constantly up his ass telling him what to say?

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I hope the Republicans in the Senate have the balls to hold up Barry's next hack. They're saying that the next Prez should make the pick, I hope the Republicans in the Senate drive Barry and the Dems bat shit crazy. But they may cave, BUT the anarchist in me hopes the hold their own.

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I hope they do, too. It will give Bernie a chance to appoint Obama to the bench!

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Supreme Court nominees haven't been confirmed during election years since 1988 because none of them died or retired during an election year. A typical Antonin Scalia opinion would loftily declare it is an American tradition not to confirm Supreme Court justices during an election year. That's how exemplary Scalia’s keen legal mind worked.

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Originally posted by whozit:
I hope the Republicans in the Senate have the balls to hold up Barry's next hack. They're saying that the next Prez should make the pick, I hope the Republicans in the Senate drive Barry and the Dems bat shit crazy. But they may cave, BUT the anarchist in me hopes the hold their own.

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Republicans: they claim to be strict guardians of the constitution, yet now they are openly saying that they will refuse to do their constitutional duty, and they are demanding that the president do the same.

Fuck them. And fuck anybody stupid enough to support them in this foolish endeavor.

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Originally posted by second:
When asked about his most controversial decision, Scalia was famous for saying “Get over it!” Then he'd laugh in your face.

In a hypothetical case, call it Bush v Gore, Justice Thomas would not want to recount the ballots in Florida (hypothetical state) because voting machines were not mentioned in the Constitution, while Scalia would decide the case depending on which one, Bush or Gore, was Republican. All hypothetical, you know. The court case could have gone either way, but it just happened that Scalia and Thomas voted the same way. “Get over it!” said Scalia and he laughed.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/06/yes-bush-v-gore-did-steal
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Scalia was a brilliant legal mind, but arrogant.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Scalia was a brilliant legal mind, but arrogant.


SGG

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

There's a difference between arrogance and confidence.

Scalia was the latter. He knew of what he spoke.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

There's a difference between arrogance and confidence.

Scalia was the latter. He knew of what he spoke.

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Celebrate the death of evil, for the world became a better place the day Scalia was snuffed.

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Gotta watch out for those secret societies. Hanging out a Bohemian Grove doesn't always end well.

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There's a difference between arrogance and confidence.

Scalia was the latter. He knew of what he spoke.

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One might bewail the language of sarcasm and insult that ran through Scalia's last major dissent. Consider his reference to the majority opinion as a “Putsch.” For any well-educated adult, the one-and-only example of a “Putsch” is Adolf Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putsch” of 1923, an important episode in the rise of Nazism. And Scalia immediately went on to say that his colleagues had failed their most elemental task, which was to “function as judges.”

This is vivid — and highly quotable — language, as is the case with much of what Donald Trump says. Like Trump, Scalia treated those who disagreed with him as fools or scoundrels.

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Celebrate the death of evil, for the world became a better place the day Scalia was snuffed.

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You are mistaken about Scalia being evil. He was a simple glutton for the adulation he received from the rich and powerful for deciding in their favor. They rewarded piggy Scalia with food.

The wiki article on Originalism connects Scalia to the intellectual nonsense that is Originalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism#Originalism_and_strict_const
ructionism

Scalia was only bad (but not in his own eyes) because he lied about his motives for being an Originalist. There is a bible verse that says it is perfectly right to mislead your enemies, so Scalia’s conscience was clear about writing opinions on the “original” meaning of the Constitution.

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Gotta watch out for those secret societies. Hanging out a Bohemian Grove doesn't always end well.

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It is not accidental that the Constitution’s "original" meaning always ended with Scalia receiving free food and invitations to resorts. Scalia would still be alive if weren’t for the excesses of food and booze ruining his health. He was controlled by his gut, not his brain.

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Perhaps there is such a thing as Karma.


SGG

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I hope the Republicans in the Senate have the balls to hold up Barry's next hack. They're saying that the next Prez should make the pick, I hope the Republicans in the Senate drive Barry and the Dems bat shit crazy. But they may cave, BUT the anarchist in me hopes the hold their own.

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I hope they do, too. It will give Bernie a chance to appoint Obama to the bench!

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