RIP Antonin Scalia

He punted before he even got out of the locker room on single-payer health care. He gave away the store on the sequesterization deal.

 

Sorry. Didn't realize Madison, Jefferson and crew were part of those amendments as well. My bad. Carry on.

 

There is plenty to criticize in a rational discussion of the Obama presidency. Unfortunately, we never get to that discussion because most of the Conservatives on this board are too busy demonizing all Democrats and blaming them for all of the world's evils.

 

We need to Take America Back ... to 2008!

 

It's ok. The Amendments corrected the founders deficiencies. Scalia gave the text a biblical reverence, when it suited his purposes. But he was a poor Talmudic scholar. He thought it was funny that the violence against women act was found unconstitutional yet found federal anti- marijuana laws constitutional, even though the underpinnings of both were essentially identical. He got his person policies passed. Bush v Gore was horrific and maybe the demarcation point between the past glory of America and the future of America as a small minded country of inbred crackers.

 

I guess my point is that if you are an originalist and fundamental changes you (presumably) agree with can be made in the 1860s why not 2016?

 

Because you must change the text by Constitutional process, not interpretation. Which makes abortion, which was not illegal in 1789, a difficult question for the right wing demigods

 

Another RINO exposed.

Bush AG Alberto Gonzales: ‘No question’ Obama has ‘obligation’ to fill Supreme Court vacancy

 

It doesn't matter if abortion was illegal in 1789. What matters is if it was considered a Constitutional right in 1789. What matters is if a state could have made it illegal, not whether they did do so or not.

 

Good luck, obstructionists:

SCOTUS Expert: Loretta Lynch 'Most Likely' to Replace Scalia

 

Race War to begin soon.

 

Every time I hear that name, "Coal Miner's Daughter" starts playing in my head.