Saturday, February 13, 2016

Scalia, Dead at 79


The voice of the fringe right on the US Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, is dead. Plenty of time for Obama to appoint a replacement.

6 comments:

Toby said...

Are you thinking of Donald Trump as a judge?

crf said...


Republicans are promising to block an Obama appointment (which is in their power). Which means that a main topic of the coming campaign will be what candidate Americans wish to have the power of appointing the next Judge.

This might increase turnout (which usually helps the D candidate).

If the R were smart, they would let Obama have his appointment with just a play fight, so removing this as a major campaign issue, because the next President is likely going to have more than a few slots to fill.

Lorne said...

To borrow from Macbeth, Mound, "Nothing became him in life like the leaving [of] it."

Northern PoV said...

I read the news and was happy. Even happier after I 'got permission' for my feelings.

"The dictate that one 'not speak ill of the dead' is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette
Happy Valentines!!

Dana said...

Bette Davis gave us the best one: "You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good."

e.a.f. said...

that certainly jollied me up when I awoke to that news.