Justice Scalia is dead

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That's unfortunate

Didn't agree with virtually any of his opinions but its always sad when somebody dies.
 
He was an asshole, but I'm seriously concerned about how the balance of power will change with the amount of power the Supreme Court seemed to amassed.
 
Anyone else's facebook feed filling up with happy democrats? It's fucking creepy dude.

"I'm buying everyone drinks/shots!" is something I've seen regularly.
 
Funnybone said:
Anyone else's facebook feed filling up with happy democrats? It's fucking creepy dude.

"I'm buying everyone drinks/shots!" is something I've seen regularly.
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Lorento said:
Wow. I may have disagreed with his political views but some of these comments are more A-loggy than A-Log.
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The guy was a poor justice not Hitler. Christ.
 
I'm not really sure what I like less here: Liberals dancing on the man's grave or shit like this:

 
P.A said:
I'm not really sure what I like less here: Liberals dancing on the man's grave or shit like this:

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Because if I was a Supreme Court Judge, I'd like to be remembered for protecting the rights of vidya rather than the general rights of the people.
 
Justice Scalia may have passed, but his ideals live on through the Constitution of the United States of America that he defended until his last day.
May he rest in peace.
 
It's really just the nature of the Supreme Court. While in all other branches of government, a person's death doesn't change much--if anything, about how things occur in the government. If a congress member dies, they'll just likely be replaced by another person from the party with similar views. If the president dies, their similar vice-president takes over. Even if, say, a senator dies, and a person of the opposing party wins the following special election, not that much changes, because there' enough senators that simply losing one to the opposition doesn't change anything, unless it was a 60-40 split in the senate or something similar.

However, with the Supreme Court, the death of a Justice can shift things dramatically, such as the case of Scalia here is likely to be. The president will be set to appoint his replacement, who will hold polar opposite views to the late Justice in this instance. Even if the Republican controlled Senate fights the appointment, and they will, for the time being, there's one more liberal justice than conservative. Even if Justice Kennedy, the one independent Justice, aligns with the right in decisions, the most they can do is cause the court to be split on a decision.

Scalia's death dramatically influences the results of future Supreme Court decisions, and, for what it's worth, the man was rather spiteful. Scalia was incredibly upset with the decision from last year that legalized gay marriage across the country, and spoken out constantly how it was clearly wrong and a mistake that needed to be rectified. The difference of but one Justice's opinion who decided in favor of allowing gay marriage would have meant that millions in the United States would still be denied that right. It's regrettable that the court is structured in such a way that the death of a person can cause this, but it's the truth. I'm not trying to a-log, the lifetime appointment system is just really dumb. Which sadly means that the death of Scalia is probably a good thing overall for the country.
 
Meh, I'm gonna a-log this a little. He wasn't Hitler, but he was an obnoxious old fart with terrible political views. That's probably not the most mature sentiment, but I'm not going to fake how I feel about this.
 
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