What I don’t understand is why Fox News isn’t screaming about how Obama and Hillary conspired with Islamic terrorists to murder Scalia.
It’s important because by omitting mention of Socialism, Bernie Sanders gets a pass.
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Uncle Joe Biden becomes president?
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I understand that there are evangelicals who believe that too.
What they don’t know is that they are watching Heaven’s BDSM dungeon and everyone has consented to be there.
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Absolutely. I’d write my senators to let them know how I feel on this matter but they are both (D)s.
BTW, Reagan was in the same exact spot in 1987 - nominated Kennedy in Nov 1987 and he was approved in Feb 1988. Shouldn’t shock anyone - chances of any one justice dying in the 4th year of a presidents term is 25%.
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But in 1987 Congress was functional.
FWIW, Sri Srinivasan was confirmed 97–0 by the Senate to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2013.
I imagine that if he wasn’t able to be confirmed to the SCOTUS 3 years later by largely the same people, it wouldn’t look good, and might appear a little racist,too.
This guy has been mentioned as a possible candidate, too.
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Sorry, yes, I’m a Hans Küng admirer myself.
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Corey Robin’s likening of him to Trump is worth a read:
If you want to understand how Donald Trump became the soul of the Republican Party, you need look no further than Antonin Scalia. Scalia is the id, ego, and super-ego of modern conservatism. He was as outrageous in his rhetoric (his unvarying response to any challenge to Bush v. Gore was “Get over it!”) as he was cruel in his comportment. Sandra Day O’Connor was the frequent object of his taunts. Hardly an opinion of hers would go by without Scalia calling it—and by implication, her—stupid. “Oh, that’s just Nino,” she’d sigh helplessly in response. Even Clarence Thomas was forced to note drily, “He loves killing unarmed animals.” He was a pig and a thug. . . . And he was obsessed, as his dissent in PGA Tour v. Casey Martin shows, with winners and losers. They were the alpha and omega of his social vision. He was the Donald Trump of the Supreme Court.
Lots of smart regular commenters at this blog too:
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How about Larry Lessig?
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The house votes for President; the Senate, for Vice President. In the House, it’s one vote per state delegation. California gets one vote. Wyoming gets one vote.
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Yeah, it’s not high enough. For, me though, it isn’t hate: just pure unadulterated disgust. The man disgusted me, his opinions disgusted me; the way the so-called liberal media has already started praising him disgusts me.
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But there are 50 states, so how are ties resolved in the House? In the Senate, that’s easy: the sitting vp breaks the tie. But what about in the house?
RBG and Scalia were actually very close friends. For her sake I am refraining from saying anything else about the man.
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Kinda doubting she reads the comments at boing boing. 
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Climatologi sounds wronger, maybe it’s the one.
Well said. I may quote you elsewhere when faced with that particular nugget.
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Ah-- the genius of the constitution is that it anticipates that-- only the five candidates with the highest electoral vote totals get to be on the ballot. So in the case of the 2000 election, the votes for Howard Phillips and John Hagelin would be in play.
Adios mofo!
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The voters have been given a say in the matter in 2008 and 2012, although Mitch thinks differently.
My question to the GOP candidates: So if this happened in the Bush years (either one), you would have proposed the same idea? I think not.
To the victor goes the Constitutional spoils.
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Indeed, it’s a pathetic excuse. In 1988 McConnell did vote to confirm a SCOTUS nomination in Reagan’s final year. Apparently the way one gives a say to voters is very fluid.
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