RIP Antonin Scalia

[YankeeFan]

Oh, and BTW, Scalia said as late as last year that he wasn't planning on retirement.

Justice Scalia Says He'll Retire Once He 'Can't Do The Job As Well'

So much for your conspiracy rumors.

Baron, of course he wasn't planning to retire during President Obama's term.

The question was would he have retired at the end of President Bush's term if he knew Bush would have been able to get a conservative confirmed to replace him.

The Dems won the Senate and publicly announced they wouldn't confirm any new judges during the final 18 months of Bush's time in office.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Obama isn't attending the funeral, which is causing some ripples.

 

[Ace]

Obama isn't attending the funeral, which is causing some ripples.

Seems like the president should attend the funeral of a Supreme Court justice.

 

[franticscribe]

Seems like the president should attend the funeral of a Supreme Court justice.

Seems like it. Except history suggests they don't, unless it's the chief justice, and at least some of those closest to Scalia are already saying it's appropriate for President Obama to pay his respects at the Supreme Court ceremony and not attend the funeral mass.

 

[TigerVols]

Seems like it. Except history suggests they don't, unless it's the chief justice, and at least some of those closest to Scalia are already saying it's appropriate for President Obama to pay his respects at the Supreme Court ceremony and not attend the funeral mass.

The'll just have to invite their other black friend, who coincidentally enough also went to Harvard like Scalia and Obama.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Baron, of course he wasn't planning to retire during President Obama's term.

The question was would he have retired at the end of President Bush's term if he knew Bush would have been able to get a conservative confirmed to replace him.

The Dems won the Senate and publicly announced they wouldn't confirm any new judges during the final 18 months of Bush's time in office.

Which leads back to my point that your tweeter is saying this situation wouldn't be happening if the Democrats hadn't won the Senate. Like they should never have tried.

The difference is that Schumer and the Democrats were willing to risk any blowback from the electorate by refusing to confirm another Bush nominee. The Republicans are not, which is why they're whining that Obama is going to have the audacity to do his Constitutional duty and put forth a nominee, which puts them in a tough spot. Either confirm someone they don't want, or be labeled as obstructionists.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Obama isn't attending the funeral, which is causing some ripples.

Eh, if he did attend then he'd be accused of using it as a photo op to pressure the GOP into accepting his nominee.

Like I've said earlier, the man can never win with the RWSM no matter what he does.

 

[old_tony]

H

"Our president, the president of the United States, has been disrespected from Day 1. The words that have been said, the things the Republicans have done they'd have never have done to another president. Let's talk like it is, it's because of his skin color."

When Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said after Mr. Scalia's death on Saturday that the next president, rather than Mr. Obama, should select a successor, the senator's words struck a familiar and painful chord with many black voters.

After years of watching political opponents question the president's birthplace and his faith, and hearing a member of Congress shout "You lie!" at him from the House floor, some African-Americans saw the move by Senate Republicans as another attempt to deny the legitimacy of the country's first black president. And they call it increasingly infuriating after Mr. Obama has spent seven years in the White House and won two resounding election victories.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/u...alia-successor.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

How soon they forget Bill Clinton.

 

[old_tony]

Obama isn't attending the funeral, which is causing some ripples.

The man who keeps whining about getting no respect continues to show no respect himself.

 

[RubberSoul1979]

In our country's history, a president has nominated a Supreme Court justice in an election year 24 times (the Senate confirmed them 21 times).
I'm no Obama fan, but surely he has a right to do something that's occurred 24 times before him. Right? Right?
Maybe someone here -- as in the resident hardcore GOP fans -- can explain otherwise. The sore losers -- McConnell, McCain, etc. -- aren't making much of a case.

 

[old_tony]

Modern history of SCOTUS appointments and how the opposition party treats them began in 1986 when Joe Biden invented the term "Borked."

Nothing has been the same since.

 

[Dick Whitman]

In our country's history, a president has nominated a Supreme Court justice in an election year 24 times (the Senate confirmed them 21 times).
I'm no Obama fan, but surely he has a right to do something that's occurred 24 times before him. Right? Right?
Maybe someone here -- as in the resident hardcore GOP fans -- can explain otherwise. The sore losers -- McConnell, McCain, etc. -- aren't making much of a case.

I don't think that even McConnell would suggest that he doesn't have the "right" to do it. He doesn't think he should. Of course, he will, which McConnell knows damn well. It's all grand standing, of course.