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lunes, 15 de febrero de 2016

Scalia's death may affect 6 big cases

 
 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks to Presbyterian Christian High School students in Hattiesburg, Miss.   (Gavin Averill/The Hattiesburg American via AP) 
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff


(Newser) – The death of Antonin Scalia has set the stage for a massive partisan battle during a time that was already unlikely to go down in history as a golden age of bipartisan cooperation in DC. The biggest dispute centers on whether nominating a Supreme Court successor during an election year should be considered outrageous or routine. Some related highlights:
  • Scalia's death may affect six major cases this term on immigration, abortion, contraception, labor unions, voting rights, and affirmative action, and the New York Times lays them out. USA Today also has a breakdown.
  • SCOTUSBlog looks at election-year nominations since 1900 and finds there have been several nominations and confirmations—and there's little evidence of any tradition of leaving a seat open during election years.
  • In a Sunday interview with ABC's This Week, Ted Cruz praised the "incomparable" Scalia and vowed to filibuster anybody Obama nominates to replace him.
  • The tug-of-war for the "ideological soul" of the court is going to drastically change the nature of Obama's final year in office, the New York Times predicts in a look at where the nomination battle lines have been drawn.
  • Politico looks at how Scalia's death has split the GOP presidential candidates, with senators taking a more hard-line approach than governors.
  • The Washington Post dives into the "chaos, confusion, and conflicting reports" that followed Scalia's death at a West Texas ranch, noting that the judge who deemed his death a natural one did so over the phone without having seen his body.
  • The New York Times looks at the remote ranch that Scalia was visiting, calling it a "rugged oasis" that has long attracted politicians and celebrities seeking peace and quiet.
  • Anybody who thinks people with opposing political views can't be friends could learn a lot from the Supreme Court's most liberal and most conservative justices, Vox reports in a look at the close friendship between Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
  • http://www.newser.com/ 

5 comentarios:

  1. ROMNEY WORDSWORTH – News broke on Saturday, February 13th, that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at a guest ranch in Texas. Authorities rushed to say that he died of natural causes, but what was this pronouncement based on?
    The Facts:

    1) No one saw Scalia die, that we know of, naturally or otherwise. He was found dead, in his bed, by an unidentified ranch employee, which I am going to go ahead and presume was a room maid, or some such similar employee. Significantly, an employee without a medical degree, or experience in forensic investigation.

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    ROMNEY WORDSWORTH – News broke on Saturday, February 13th, that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at a guest ranch in Texas. Authorities rushed to say that he died of natural causes, but what was this pronouncement based on?

    The Facts:

    1) No one saw Scalia die, that we know of, naturally or otherwise. He was found dead, in his bed, by an unidentified ranch employee, which I am going to go ahead and presume was a room maid, or some such similar employee. Significantly, an employee without a medical degree, or experience in forensic investigation.

    2) No autopsy has been ordered.

    3) Within 24 hours, Scalia’s body was moved to a local funeral home, and subjected to embalming. It is now impossible to do a worthwhile autopsy because the embalming process removes all the blood (which may have carried evidence of poisons or neurotoxins) and the tissue is similarly corrupted by embalming fluid, conveniently erasing any tracks that a poisoner might have left behind.

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  2. The Motive:

    Justice Scalia was one of four Conservative Justices on the Supreme Court. The current Supreme Court was balanced on a tight rope, with 4 Justices who ascribe to Originalism in interpreting the Constitution*, 4 Justices who are Obama toadies who automatically uphold whatever he does, and Justice Kennedy, who does whatever gets him the greatest accolades from the Washington D.C. media elites.

    *With the exception of Chief Justice Roberts, who appears to have been blackmailed into reversing his original opinion to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional. In a bizarre series of events, Roberts ended up writing both the majority opinion and the dissent on the decision to uphold Obamacare, writing a polar opposite opinion days after having written the original opinion striking it down, which then became the dissent. It was Justice Scalia, in fact, who insisted on keeping Roberts’ name on the dissent of the opinion, to draw attention to his sudden flip flop.

    It is well known that Barack Obama wanted to permanently tilt the Supreme Court in favor of his sycophantic toady appointees. It is also well known that considerable pressure was put on Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire, so that Obama could replace her with a younger drone. The entire Authoritarian Left had a motive to kill Justice Scalia, from Obama down to the Marxist teaching your kid English at your local middle school, because the Supreme Court is the chief means the Left uses to get its agenda passed on things like Abortion and Marriage for Homosexuals, to the government annexing the health care industry and 1/6th of the economy. In the coming year, the Supreme Court is set to revisit the divisive issue of abortion, it recently struck down Obama’s EPA making war on the coal industry, and it will end up ruling on Obama’s recent proposal to have Federal “monitors” invade every home in the nation to act as “partners” in raising your child (more on that in tomorrow’s column).

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  3. The Means:

    The United States Federal Government absolutely has resorted to political assassinations at home, and abroad, in the past. The U.S. has used assassinations to install dictators all over Central and South America. The Federal Government uses Hellfire missiles fired from Predator Drones to assassinate its own citizens abroad, on a regular basis. Federal Agents just assassinated an Oregon protestor, Roy Finicum, at a roadblock a week ago. The unarmed Finicum was gunned down and shot nine times. Anyone who argues this point can go ask Michael Hastings or Ambassador Stevens. Oh, they’re dead. Well, let’s ask Vince Foster and the members of Seal Team Six then. Oh yeah, they’re all dead too.

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  4. The Church Committee in Congress in the 1970’s investigated and confirmed that even back then, the CIA had developed a “heart attack gun” that fired tiny poison darts that could induce a heart attack in a victim, or inject a victim with a cancer virus.

    Anyone who doubts the Federal government’s willingness to commit murder obviously never heard of the Tuskegee Airmen getting secretly injected with syphilis by their loving government, or all our other current veterans who are put on No Treat Lists by the VA to kill them via Death by Denial. If the claim is that Justice Scalia died a natural death, then that just means the assassination was a professional hit job.

    The timing of Scalia’s passing seems a bit too convenient to me, and the Democrat Party has wasted no time in calling for the Senate to confirm an immediate replacement. The Democrat Party is filled with radical Marxists and Communists for which pushing their political goals BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY is a moral imperative. For once, it would be nice not to see the Republicans roll over and play dead. They might not be playing for too much longer.

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  5. ANONIMO

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