Antonin Scalia Archives

An Appropriate Honor for Antonin Scalia

April 6, 2016 Buck Banks

Gawker: “Last week, George Mason University announced that its law school would be renamed, at the request of an anonymous donor who gave $20 million to the program, after the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia: the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University—ASS Law. (Or ASSoL.)”

The New York Times says the school will now be renamed again to The Antonin Scalia Law School.

Most Want Senate to Hold SCOTUS Hearings

February 23, 2016 Buck Banks

56%

Of Americans say the Senate should hold hearings and vote on President Obama’s choice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, according to Pew Research. About four-in-ten (38%) say the Senate should not hold hearings until the next president selects a court nominee.

— Jeffrey Toobin, the New Yorker

Reid Speaks Out on GOP Stonewalling

February 16, 2016 Buck Banks

If we enshrine this precedent and declare a functioning Supreme Court optional, subordinate to the whim of the Senate majority, it is easy to envision a future where the Supreme Court is routinely crippled.

— Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), writing for the Washington Post , on the GOP’s stated refusal to consider any Obama nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy.

No Scalia Tears

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 Buck Banks

Old Justice Scalia was never into constitutional interpretation.
For him, the pristine document was unchanged since its creation.
But now that Scalia
Has left this vale of tears,
He’s just as dead as his version of the U.S. Constitution.

Hey GOP, Scalia’s Death Is a Message from God – He Wants Pres. Obama to Appoint the Next Supreme Court Justice

February 15, 2016February 16, 2016 Jon Ponder

To hear them tell it, God is in constant communication with Republican politicians. In the current election cycle alone, he told no less than six out of the 16 (or whatever) Republican candidates that he wanted them to run for president.

He may have wanted them to run, but apparently he didn’t want at least five of them to win. Of the six — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, evangelical cult leader Ben Carson, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — only Kasich is still in the race.

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Is Scalia a Creationist?

June 8, 2015 Buck Banks

Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges as confronted are any worse now, or alas even much different, from what they ever were.

— Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, quoted by the Washington Post, suggesting he might be a creationist. ThinkProgress notes the earliest Homo sapiens actually lived in Africa about 100,000 years ago.

From Supreme Court Bench, GOP’s Scalia Repeated Tea Party Anti-ACA Propaganda – And Lies

April 2, 2012 Jon Ponder

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An Appropriate Honor for Antonin Scalia

Most Want Senate to Hold SCOTUS Hearings

56%

Of Americans say the Senate should hold hearings and vote on President Obama’s choice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, according to Pew Research. About four-in-ten (38%) say the Senate should not hold hearings until the next president selects a court nominee.

Scalia Wasn’t So Great

— Jeffrey Toobin, the New Yorker

Reid Speaks Out on GOP Stonewalling

If we enshrine this precedent and declare a functioning Supreme Court optional, subordinate to the whim of the Senate majority, it is easy to envision a future where the Supreme Court is routinely crippled.

— Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), writing for the Washington Post , on the GOP’s stated refusal to consider any Obama nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy.

No Scalia Tears

Hey GOP, Scalia’s Death Is a Message from God – He Wants Pres. Obama to Appoint the Next Supreme Court Justice

Is Scalia a Creationist?

Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges as confronted are any worse now, or alas even much different, from what they ever were.

— Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, quoted by the Washington Post, suggesting he might be a creationist. ThinkProgress notes the earliest Homo sapiens actually lived in Africa about 100,000 years ago.

From Supreme Court Bench, GOP’s Scalia Repeated Tea Party Anti-ACA Propaganda – And Lies

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things.”

— Pope Francis criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace,” CNN reports.

“Welcome home.”

— President Biden, quoted by ABC News, greeting President-elect Donald Trump at the White House.

“After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”

— Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley said he was “deeply grateful” to receive a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden Monday, USA Today reports.

“You have a two-seat majority, and you shot one of your members.”

— A House Republican lawmaker, quoted by Politico, on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ousting House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) and making him “an enemy.”

“It’s weird to find solace in the Civil War, or the Great Depression, or the beginning of World War Two, but my whole optimistic temperament depends on saying that we will get through it and emerge stronger.”

— Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, in an interview with the Financial Times.

Numerati

$15 trillion

$25 billion

$26 billion

“The Biden administration has distributed at least $26 billion of dollars in financing to clean-energy companies in its final days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office,” Bloomberg reports.

$31 million

The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in federal payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was “just the tip of the iceberg,” the AP reports.

19%

A new AP-NORC poll finds just 19% of Americans approve of Pete Hegseth being nominated as the secretary of defense.