RIP Antonin Scalia

Was on a hunting trip in West Texas:

Senior Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch

Huge implications for the Court, obviously, with a Democrat in the White House.

 

Nobody BHO nominates will be confirmed. EOS.

 

Holy shit.

One of the Titans.

 

Certainly a LIHOM.

 

Last Supreme Court opening during an election year was in 1968, when Arthur Goldberg resigned to become Ambassador to the United Nations after Adlai Stevenson died.

President Johnson tried to move Abe Fortas up to chief justice, but the nomination was filibustered. Johnson's nominee for the vacancy was Homer Thornberry, who took Johnson's seat in Congress when LBJ was elected to the Senate. When Fortas' nomination was withdrawn, Thornberry had nowhere to go.

Warren Burger was confirmed the following year after being nominated by Nixon.

 

Hunting trip? Maybe Cheney bagged another.

 

Ha, ha.

Hilarious.

 

Scalia's final dissent. The possibility of a Trump presidency.

 

Oh, look. Board Conscience is here.

 

I trust whatever Trump's reaction to today's news is, will further reveal him to be an absolute buffoon.

 

Already, the far right on my Facebook feed is calling for no nominee until after the election.

 

Yup. Obama could nominate Robert Bork and they'd block him. And yes, I know he's dead. You know what I meant.