Justice Scalia has passed

[Mr210]

Cruz already twit that the next president should make the nomination

 

[wire28]

Rest in peace to the greatest legal mind of our time. Scalia's brilliance became even more obvious as intellectual lightweights/affirmative action hires like Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor were named to the Supreme Court.

I am sure the Obama administration has a disabled, transgender Muslim judge already picked out to replace Scalia.

THE fukkERY if he nominated a muslim

 

[Mr210]

So far Obama has done a terrible job at picking supreme court justices...hopefully he smartens up

 

[wire28]

Cruz already twit that the next president should make the nomination

clockwork

 

[Misanthrope]

Oh no doubt. Remember they wanted to make him a one term president. I'm just saying if the longest took a little over 100 days, the nation wont stand for them doubling that up, thats some real fukk shyt. They'll obstruct but even with their fukkery you cant have damn near a year with a missing seat.

They didn't have a problem with us going 5-6 months without a damn Attorney General. I can't think that there's any way that the Senate lets Obama put up someone as liberal as Kagan/Sotomayor when they can just run out the clock. Worst case scenario, they're where they are now with a Dem. pres and a slight hold in the Senate. Best case scenario for them, Cruz wins, they break the filibuster and shyt goes hog wild.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Scalia was a genius, but the Koch brother, religious shyt had to go

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

So far Obama has done a terrible job at picking supreme court justices...hopefully he smartens up

how?

 

[Canon]

So far Obama has done a terrible job at picking supreme court justices...hopefully he smartens up

he should let hillary nominate him for supreme court when she wins

 

[714562]

He re-wrote the Confrontation Clause.

He made statutory interpretation mean something again.

He redefined the Second Amendment.

He made the free exercise clause not apply to neutral laws of general application.

Love him or hate him, he's easily one of the most influential justices of all time.

explain the bolded.

As to the first bolded sentence: In the 1970s, statutory interpretation was very loosey-goosey. Judges would look everywhere except the language of the law first. Scalia changed all that. Now, basically every judge in America is a "textualist." All statutory interpretation begins an ends with an analysis of the language itself. He's co-authored incredibly influential books with Bryan Garner on the subject. Even Justice Kagan has basically acknowledged that he completely changed the field and considers herself a "textualist."

As to the second bolded sentence: He wrote this opinion -- Employment Division v. Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The reason why the First Amendment does not protect religious people from neutral laws of general application is because Scalia wrote that.

 

[3rdLetter]

Is the Senate willing to block the nominations for up to a year?

 

[acri1]

he should let hillary nominate him for supreme court when she wins

I would be an epic irony if the GOP was successfully able to run out the clock and stop Obama from nominating anybody...only for Hillary to win the presidency and then put Obama himself on the court. The tears would just be

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Yoooooooooo this is so fukkn crazy

And the republican debate is tonight too!? Ratings out the wahzoo

 

[Spanky 6000]

Smh at the "im glad he's dead" posts

Are you really that surprised? Liberals are the most angry, hate filled people on the face of the earth.

 

[Rain]

Oh shyt

I mean RIP

But

 

[714562]

Damn the law.

The law applies to you whether or not you damn it.