Justice Scalia Dead

[Wrong Element]

On the other hand...Obama is skipping Scalia's funeral! That should bring smiles to the lefties.

It's not important enough for me to smile over, but there's no history of presidents routinely attending the funerals of Supreme Court justices, whines of outrage from Wingnuttia notwithstanding.

But considering Scalia couldn't be bothered to show up for Obama's State of the Union addresses, one could argue he's reaping in death what he sowed in life.

 

[Dream_Operator]

It's not important enough for me to smile over, but there's no history of presidents routinely attending the funerals of Supreme Court justices, whines of outrage from Wingnuttia notwithstanding.

Actually there is, when was the last tine a sitting President didn't attend one?

Hint: it wasn't in your lifetime.

Put up, or shut up!

Can you?

LOL!

 

[Dream_Operator]

But considering Scalia couldn't be bothered to show up for Obama's State of the Union addresses, one could argue he's reaping in death what he sowed in life.

Supreme Court Justices are not required or obligated to attend any President's STOUA.

In fact, they are required to be independent of the Executive Branch of our government -- three independent branches of our government including the President and the built in checks and balances built in by the Constitution.

You are appear to woefully ignorant on many topics.

Are you American?

Are you intelligent?

 

[sr71plt]

Actually there is, when was the last tine a sitting President didn't attend one?

Hint: it wasn't in your lifetime.

Put up, or shut up!

Can you?

LOL!

You have a list going back to 1946? Do share, please.

 

[sr71plt]

These are your words.

You mean like a strict constitutionalist saying the president can't nominate people for federal jobs in the last year of his presidency?

What is your source? Who said these words? Are you plagiarizing or making shit up?

Cruz and Rubio said that. And I said they did--and still are saying it when they have the chance. Are you a bit slow? Did you not listen to any of the Republican candidate debates or read any news? I did.

I cited the sources. Not my fault that you can't read.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm an Independent, but I have heard these same predictions in the last two Congressional elections, how did they turn out?

Stereotyping anyone who doesn't agree with you makes you what? Enlightened?

Am I dumb as a rock?

This is a presidential election we're talking about.

I don't know if you're dumb as a rock. But you could be.

 

[sr71plt]

Supreme Court Justices are not required or obligated to attend any President's STOUA.

In fact, they are required to be independent of the Executive Branch of our government -- three independent branches of our government including the President and the built in checks and balances built in by the Constitution.

You are appear to woefully ignorant on many topics.

Are you American?

Are you intelligent?

Cite where a president is required to attend a sitting Supreme Court Justice's funeral. That seems to be your comparison and what has you in a tizzy and it doesn't seem to hold water.

 

[about_average]

The White House on Thursday tried to fend off criticism of President Obama's decision not to attend the funeral this weekend of Justice Antonin Scalia, but even some administration allies lamented the move as a missed opportunity to ease the partisan warfare that has followed the justice's death.

[...]

But Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who once clerked for Justice Scalia and shares the same faith, said that Mr. Obama made the right decision. Mr. Whelan emphasized that traditional Catholic funerals are deeply religious affairs during which even eulogies are discouraged.

"For Catholics, a funeral Mass is first and foremost a funeral, not an event of state," Mr. Whelan said.

The Supreme Court gives great deference to historical precedent, but history provides conflicting clues about whether a presidential visit to the funeral is appropriate.

While President George W. Bush attended the funeral in 2005 of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who was the last justice to die while on the bench, funerals of other justices have passed without the presence of either the president or the vice president.

Michael Moreland, a law professor at Villanova University who is Catholic and was on the White House staff of Mr. Bush, said both sides had valid points.

The event on Friday at the Supreme Court is the more appropriate place for a presidential visit, he said, but Mr. Obama's attendance at the funeral "could have been a nice occasion for reducing polarization of D.C.'s political culture." [New York Times, 2/18/16]

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/02/19/conservatives-defy-history-with-derision-at-oba/208693

Given all the security that goes along with the president I don't think any president should attend a funeral unless requested by the family.

 

[RUlookingup]

The Great and Powerful Obama has spoken. I will meet with DeRay McKesson and his ilk. "Quislings like DeRay have the same agenda as I do" Who knows Zumi could be next. The Great Divider has spoken.

 

[about_average]

“There’s so much rancor and politics and partisanship that we allow ourselves to get drawn into different corners to the extent that some people actually want to use the funeral of the Supreme Court justice as some sort of political cudgel,” Earnest said.

Well said Josh! There are a lot of people out there more interested in political gotcha's than having consideration for a mourning family.

 

[JackLuis]

Such bickering over in this time of morning is unseemly, gentlemen. Have some respect, and a double whiskey.

I have mourned the deaths of A. Scalia, J.E. Hoover, R, Nixon, R.Raygun and LBJ, the same way, with liquor and dancing, owing to my Celtic heritage.

 

[Wrong Element]

Actually there is, when was the last tine a sitting President didn't attend one?

Hint: it wasn't in your lifetime.

Put up, or shut up!

Can you?

LOL!

"There will be a lot of sanctimonious complaining about this decision — even among those who don’t buy into the conspiracy theories — but recent history reveals a mixed bag when it comes to attending these funerals.

Perhaps because President Bush the Younger attended Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s funeral and he was the most recent Supreme Court funeral we’ve had, everyone has the impression that it’s the norm. But it’s not really.

Vice President Biden will attend Scalia’s service. Which is better than what Justices Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell Jr. got — Bill Clinton and Al Gore skipped both of those. And that’s not a partisan slight — I don’t recall Bush or Cheney making it to Byron White’s funeral.

Bill Clinton made it out to Chief Justice Burger’s funeral, as well as that of Justice Brennan. But no less a titan of the bench than Justice Thurgood Marshall only rated a Veep in attendance, with Al Gore serving as the White House emissary.

The point is, it’s really not out of the ordinary for a president to not attend the funeral of a Supreme Court justice."



http://abovethelaw.com/2016/02/obama-to-skip-scalia-funeral-lets-all-overreact/



You're way out of your league here, son.

 

[Wrong Element]

BTW, is Dubya at the funeral mass? It's the least he could do for the man who made him President.

 

[JackLuis]

BTW, is Dubya at the funeral mass? It's the least he could do for the man who made him President.

W is probably still in SC trying to help JEB! take third place.

 

[phrodeau]

Scalia dies, and the stock market soars. Coincidence?

 

[sr71plt]

You won't cite your sources Pilot. Why should anyone cite a source for what they post?

"Uhhhh, XYZ said it"...not exactly citing a source...but you're a pilot...I'm not surprised.

Cruz, Rubio, and the Constitution ARE sources. You're really insisting on being stupid about this, aren't. (I'm not surprised.)

 

[about_average]

I don't believe anyone has said that Obama can't nominate anyone. What they have said, repeatedly, is that he can't appoint anyone because they will refuse to hold hearings on any nominations.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I don't believe anyone has said that Obama can't nominate anyone. What they have said, repeatedly, is that he can't appoint anyone because they will refuse to hold hearings on any nominations.

It turns out that Bush the younger was right after all. As far as the GOP is concerned the Constitution is just a piece of paper.

 

[Wrong Element]

Am I dumb as a rock?

It appears the answer is yes.


Dumb bastard doesn't have the balls to come back to this thread and admit he was wrong.

 

[about_average]

I don't believe anyone has said that Obama can't nominate anyone. What they have said, repeatedly, is that he can't appoint anyone because they will refuse to hold hearings on any nominations.

I forgot to add two of the even more stupid things republicans have said.
1 - It wouldn't be fair for Obama to appoint someone.
I don't even know WTF that means.

2 - The American people should have a say in who is appointed.
Apparently if Scailia had died last year and Obama appointed someone the american people would be having a say, but this year they won't be if he appoints someone.

 

[Adre]

Sandra Day O'Connor, Reagan choice for the SC, went on record advising the President to get on with his duty and nominate a replacement for Scalia. I suspect had she advocated the opposite position the radical right would be shouting it from the rooftops.

 

[about_average]

Sandra Day O'Connor, Reagan choice for the SC, went on record advising the President to get on with his duty and nominate a replacement for Scalia. I suspect had she advocated the opposite position the radical right would be shouting it from the rooftops.

Ha! Not only that, it was on a Fox affiliate.

https://youtu.be/iGPtOZubftk

 

[mwmnpa]

Good to see the usual crowd of mouth breathing liberal fuckwits are still spouting off here. Congress can't negotiate and compromise? Neither can your sainted Divider in Chief. Terrible president, and spare us the doctored stats, save them for your other circle jerk threads.

Mocking a fine jurist like Scalia is par for the course for you libtards. But no mention of how Obama blew off his funeral. Oh, that's right, he also blew off the funerals of generals, police officers, soldiers, etc while endorsing an organization that advocates for killing cops. Oh yeah, if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon too. LOL! As another of your assclown heroes would call it, an inconvenient truth.

However, you dimwits are right, albeit for the wrong reasons. Justice Scalia, like him or not, was a strict constructionist. I know, most of you libpukes need to look that up.

He would have advocated for the Obama to do his job and go about the business of nominating a replacement, because that's what the Constitution, a document he wiped his ass with early and often, calls for.

The true irony is that the community organizer in chief is using it for political advantage.

Again, that is lost on you fuckwits, but you're right by default. You just don't know why. Hey, even a blind pig finds a few apples.

Carry on.

 

[sr71plt]

Feel better? Because you don't affect me a bit with this rant. You're the one with the blood pressure problem over this. But you look kind of cute all puffed up and red in the face. And totally powerless.

 

[mwmnpa]

I feel fine, thanks for asking. No rant, just calling it the way I see it.

Find out what strict construction means yet?

Oh, and I have a nice life, you really don't affect me either. How's the view from mom's basement?