Justice Scalia has passed

[714562]

Maddow: Jeh Johnson Possible Replacement For Scalia, Could Get Through GOP Senate

Qualified on paper, but those hearings will be fukkery.

In January 2011, Johnson provoked controversy when, according to a Department of Defense news story, he asserted in a speech at the Pentagon that deceased civil rights iconMartin Luther King, Jr., would have supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, despite King's outspoken opposition to American interventionism during his lifetime.[23] Johnson argued that American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq were playing the role of the Good Samaritan, consistent with King's beliefs, and that they were fighting to establish the peace for which King hoped.[24][25]Jeremy Scahill of Salon.com called Johnson's remarks "one of the most despicable attempts at revisionist use of Martin Luther King Jr. I've ever seen," while Justin Elliott (also of Salon.com) argued that based on Dr. King's opposition to the Vietnam War, he would likely have opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the covert wars in Pakistan and Yemen.[26] Former assistant U.S. attorney Cynthia Kouril has defended Johnson's remarks, arguing in her blog that his speech has been misinterpreted.[27]

In the spring and summer of 2014 the southern border of the United States experienced a large influx of immigrants, many of whom were children, coming from Central America.[38] Secretary Johnson and his Department worked with the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate a response to address the immigrants' needs. In June, U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services asylum officers were reassigned to conduct credible fear interviews, while prioritizing the cases of recently apprehended unaccompanied children, adults with children, and other recent border crossers.[39] At the same time, Secretary Johnson asked for the support of Congress to increase border security and prevent more spikes like this from happening again.[40] After the flow of immigrant children to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security established three family residential centers, and they immediately became the focus of much controversy.[41] The ACLU has compared them to Japanese internment camps and in July of 2015 a U.S. District Court Judge in California ordered that the family residential centers comply with a 1997 settlement concerning the detention of children.[42]

 

[Tate]

Best news all day

 

[Calmye]

we in there

 

[GzUp]

What would you have him say? "F.uck Antonin Scalia?" He won't even badmouth his current electoral opponent. Why would he badmouth a dead man?

How about not saying anything at all?

 

[Blackout]

Cant believe you guys are celebrating the death of someone you don't even know... Mankind really has no hope

As if your racist white ass havent said worse about black people who are dead and alive

 

[714562]

How about not saying anything at all?

A presidential candidate not commenting on a major death in DC? He sent out a polite RIP tweet. It's not heresy.

 

[DynamoEAR]

republicans are such scumbag pieces of shyt

trying to politicize this before this nikka body is put into a box

That nikka not even in the morgue yet probably.

 

[714562]

Cant believe you guys are celebrating the death of someone you don't even know... Mankind really has no hope

Most of the people in this thread and on Twitter don't know much about the nuance of his positions. All they know is that he was a conservative boogeyman and he's dead now.

 

[Harry B]

Cant believe you guys are celebrating the death of someone you don't even know... Mankind really has no hope

Didn't you celebrate when Osama Bin Ladin was murked?

 

[hayesc0]

If Obama nominats a brother

 

[Harry B]

If Obama nominats a brother

Hillary Clinton talking about nominating Obama

 

[Spanky 6000]

The amount of sheer hatred coming from the American left right now is astounding. My God these people are inhumane. It is downright scary.

 

[The Watcher]

This shyt right here is the reason I'm agnostic. I can't buy into religion, but then something like this happens and I feel like it's god giving me a shout-out. I've been begging to talk about these supreme court justices - that should've been on the summer jam screen already by the media - and now we're there.


And Scalia is worm food.


Today is a good day, friends.

 

[Red Shield]

shyt is mad spooky....

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

God. fukk'em