The Death Knell Has Likely Sounded for America

[hcap]

Originally Posted by Clocker

I gave evidence that people who actually know something about the law disagree with your characterization of Scalia as third rate.

OPINION:
Geoffrey R. Stone (born 1946) is an American law professor and noted First Amendment scholar. He is currently the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...scalia/361621/

....the Supreme Court’s five conservatives likely derived their abortion views from Catholic doctrine: Scalia—a devout Catholic, and the current Court’s longest-serving conservative—announced a boycott of the school until Stone leaves the faculty......

MORE OPINION...

Bruce Allen Murphy..... A professor of civil rights at Lafayette College, Murphy refuses to be daunted by the silence that surrounds most discussions about religion and the Court. In his view, understanding one of the most dazzling and polarizing jurists on the Supreme Court entails, above all, examining the inevitably murky relationship between judicial decision making and religious devotion.

...Murphy’s conclusion—at once obvious and subversive—is that Justice Scalia is very much the product of his deeply held Catholic faith. The pristine border between faith and jurisprudence is largely myth and aspiration.

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by hcap

OPINION:
Geoffrey R. Stone (born 1946) is an American law professor and noted First Amendment scholar. He is currently the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...scalia/361621/

....the Supreme Court’s five conservatives likely derived their abortion views from Catholic doctrine: Scalia—a devout Catholic, and the current Court’s longest-serving conservative—announced a boycott of the school until Stone leaves the faculty......

MORE OPINION...

Bruce Allen Murphy..... A professor of civil rights at Lafayette College, Murphy refuses to be daunted by the silence that surrounds most discussions about religion and the Court. In his view, understanding one of the most dazzling and polarizing jurists on the Supreme Court entails, above all, examining the inevitably murky relationship between judicial decision making and religious devotion.

...Murphy’s conclusion—at once obvious and subversive—is that Justice Scalia is very much the product of his deeply held Catholic faith. The pristine border between faith and jurisprudence is largely myth and aspiration.

And tell us, 'cap, of what are you a product: Knuckle-dragging, tree-swinging, banana-stuffing apes with an IQ that would rival that of a 2-yo child?

[hcap]

banana-stuffing apes ?

Boy have you got the wrong PA poster

[Dave Schwartz]

Can someone please remind me how to find the "Twit Filter?"

(Serious. I cannot find it.)

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by hcap

banana-stuffing apes ?

Boy have you got the wrong PA poster

You did mean to say that you're the poster boy!?

[bks]

Someone should investigate whether Democrats (or anyone else) played a role in the death of Scalia.

The report below is from a very left-leaning web site.

If some democrat killed Scalia, I want them prosecuted and I want a conservative reappointed to the court. I say this as someone who despises mainstream conservative doctrine, particularly the regressive sort championed by the third-rate mind of Antonin Scalia. Certainly, he was the sort of person Democrats hated enough to bump off.

There are concerning anomalies regarding the reporting of his death and its aftermath. Probably they mean nothing. But it's enough that a full, non-federal investigation should be undertaken. Just as it should have been when Mike Connell was killed.

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/0...ustice-scalia/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e23JYS_U0I (Mike Connell's death. Watch carefully.)

[Tom]

He was found with a pillow over his head and they are not doing an autopsy.
At the least, there are some questions that need to be answered......
He wasn't found in a park, so that is good.....

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by Tom

He was found with a pillow over his head and they are not doing an autopsy.
At the least, there are some questions that need to be answered......
He wasn't found in a park, so that is good.....

Where did you hear about the pillow?
The evening news last night interviewed the man
who opened a side door to the suite Scalia was
staying in. He said he found him in a peaceful
state - nothing mentioned about a pillow.

I agree , though, about an autopsy.
You would think it is common practice for something like this.
His family must be against it, and must firmly believe that
his death was from natural causes.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz

Can someone please remind me how to find the "Twit Filter?"

(Serious. I cannot find it.)

User CP

Buddy/Ignore Lists

[Tom]

Where did you hear about the pillow?

The owner of the motel said that.

[classhandicapper]

I know less than nothing about law, but intuitively (and I think almost obviously) the Supreme Court should follow the Constitution exactly as the founders intended. The reason they provided for amendments was so that we could accommodate societal changes and things they did not and could not consider about the future.

By that standard, many of things we have done via the court are probably WAY out of line with what the founders intended. They might agree with some or even many of the results, but I suspect they would hate the leftist approach and process that got us there. On others they would disagree strongly with both the result and process.

I read a few of things Scalia wrote. I never found anything that didn't seem logical, well reasoned, and consistent with those standards.

To me, this is a horrible loss for the county and everyone that loves freedom and private property.

The republicans should do everything they possibly can to prevent Obama from replacing Scalia with someone he prefers. If they lose the presidential election so be it, but if they cave all bets are off.

If they don't go all out, in the next election after this, the candidates the right will support will make Ted Cruz look like a girly man. I won't be able to support anyone unless they are serious about secession.

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by Tom

The owner of the motel said that.

Looks like that "motel" will set you back
anywhere from 400 to a grand per night.


http://www.cibolocreekranch.com/

[_______]

I'm sure this was a deep conspiracy to murder a guy who has sat on the Supreme Court for 3 decades in the last year of a Presidential term with the body that needs to approve the new Justice in opposition hands. By someone who didn't think to remove the pillow used to suffocate him.

I believe this because it makes more sense than a 79 year old just dying in their sleep.

[Tom]

Agree, but due diligence requires an investigation.
The pillow story is being called false on another radio show this afternoon?

We shall see.
Has Julia Roberts commented yet?

[redshift1]

Originally Posted by boxcar

And tell us, 'cap, of what are you a product: Knuckle-dragging, tree-swinging, banana-stuffing apes with an IQ that would rival that of a 2-yo child?

IQ remains relatively stable throughout life. Individuals tested at a young age normally score the same when tested in adulthood.

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