Who will be nominated to replace Scalia?

[Anathema]

In other words, someone good.

In other words someone chosen because they meet a particular political criteria instead of based on their ability to uphold the US Constitution as written.

 

[NoNukes]

In other words, someone good.

In other words someone chosen because they meet a particular political criteria instead of based on their ability to uphold the US Constitution as written.

That is not what I said.

 

[Anathema]

That is not what I said.

Yes it is. My initial post indicated that the nominee will be chosen not because they're qualified but because of physical and political traits. The mere fact that they were chosen for thise traits rather than their ability to properly judge cases makes them a bad choice. You then indicated that the criteria I listed made them a good candidate.

 

[mamooth]

If you believe that "qualified" and "politically convenient" are mutually exclusive, that's only your problem. These days, a SC nominee has to be both.

 

[dannyboys]

I have two graduate four year degrees. One in Education the other in Arts.

I'm sorry, what? You have two "graduate four year" degrees?



Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure................

I apologise. I meant to type "two undergraduate four year degrees". Meaning both required four years to complete as I earned my first 'undergraduate' degree after high school and my second 'undergraduate' degree in my forties. None of my first degree credits were transferable after so many years so I had to start over.
You can stop dancing now.

 

[NoNukes]

That is not what I said.

Yes it is. My initial post indicated that the nominee will be chosen not because they're qualified but because of physical and political traits. The mere fact that they were chosen for thise traits rather than their ability to properly judge cases makes them a bad choice. You then indicated that the criteria I listed made them a good candidate.

I said that a person like that would be a good person to interpret the Constitution and rule on it.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

The situation couldn't be worse for Republicans in an election year. If they block Obama's nominee, they piss off half the country. If they let it go through, they piss off the other half. In a year of dodgy Republican candidates, that could be the death knell.

To be frank I don't think "half the country" who are LIBs actually follow the SC. Maybe a quarter of LIB voters are vaguely aware the SC exists and that's only because they've heard the words Supreme Court in some obscure news headline on MSNBC. I think the REPs now have an even greater motivation to elect a REP as President. I bet anyone could go onto any LIB college campus today and ask a thousand students who was the judge who just died and which way did the judge lean politically. No more than twenty of these fucking LIB dummies could answer correctly.

What makes you think the "other half" follows it any more closely? I think you're living in an echo chamber and don't realize that Dems would be just as motivated to make sure the ruling they favor aren't rolled back.

One way or the other it will be the number of LIBs who actually turn out to vote that will influence who the next SCJ will be. That's obvious right?
As it stands now the Grand Canyon divide between the Sander's LIB and Hillary LIBs is a very serious problem for the DNC.
Mark my words. If Hillary slithers away from the FBI yet again and she basically steals the nomination from under Sander's nose the vast majority of Sanders supporters are NEVER going to then vote for Hillary. Not a fucking chance in hell. And YOU know it.
The Sanders supporters instead are going to do one of two things: Most will say "FUCK IT THE GAME IS RIGGED!" and use the bus fare to go vote on a blunt and a bag of red liquorice. Some, I'm guessing about 10-15% are going to vote for Trump out of spite mostly. Some may actually be bright enough to understand their odds of ever getting a decent job are much better having Trump in office than a Socialist who wants to take 90% of these dewy eyed, rosy cheeked, recently 'streamed' from the Liberal Indoctrination Centers, parent's hard earned income away to give it to people who will never work at a decent job in their lives.
And forget the delusion that Sanders is going to quit and tell his virulent anti-Hillary supporters to turn around and vote for Hillary. Sanders has way too much personal integrity to do that. Even if he did his supporters would turn on him for selling out.
Remember Hillary can't win the Presidency without the 'youth' vote.
The negro block vote won't be enough.
Meaning the LIB parties chances of having any say in who is the next SCJ is fucked.
The very very best news is President Trump will very likely get to nominate two of three SCJ's in his four year term. How many in eight years?
There really is a GOD looking out for America.

It won't be hard to prove to Sanders supporters the game is rigged. Like at Ne Hampshire. Even losing 2 to 1' Hillary gets 9 more delegates than Bernie. We conservatives must tell the Sanders voters the game is rigged. We need to get hem pissed off enough to stop voting.

 

[Anathema]

I said that a person like that would be a good person to interpret the Constitution and rule on it.

Except that it doesn't. In fact it makes them terrible candidates BECAUSE they would tend to interpret the Constitution instead of READING it and applying it as written; which is what the job of a Supreme Court Justice is.

 

[NoNukes]

I said that a person like that would be a good person to interpret the Constitution and rule on it.

Except that it doesn't. In fact it makes them terrible candidates BECAUSE they would tend to interpret the Constitution instead of READING it and applying it as written; which is what the job of a Supreme Court Justice is.

You are talking about hypothetical people you do not know. Sounds like you are full of it.

 

[Anathema]

You are talking about hypothetical people you do not know. Sounds like you are full of it.

I'm talking about ANYONE who believes in "interpreting" the Constitution rather than simply reading and applying the document. Unfortunately, all too often minorities and those of the Liberal/Leftist/Socialist mindset choose to try and find things in the document that aren't there.

 

[NoNukes]

You are talking about hypothetical people you do not know. Sounds like you are full of it.

I'm talking about ANYONE who believes in "interpreting" the Constitution rather than simply reading and applying the document. Unfortunately, all too often minorities and those of the Liberal/Leftist/Socialist mindset choose to try and find things in the document that aren't there.

Like the right to gun ownership, yes, I get that.

 

[Anathema]

Like the right to gun ownership, yes, I get that.

No. Like the idea that women have rights. The RTKBA is very clearly defined in the document.

 

[NoNukes]

Like the right to gun ownership, yes, I get that.

No. Like the idea that women have rights. The RTKBA is very clearly defined in the document.

That would be known as an opinion.

 

[Anathema]

That would be known as an opinion.

No, but you liberal education would have you believe such things.

Nowhere in the Original document are women granted ANY accommodation, whatsoever. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the culture and politics of the time pwriod understands the Second Amendment with absolute clarity.

 

[NoNukes]

That would be known as an opinion.

No, but you liberal education would have you believe such things.

Nowhere in the Original document are women granted ANY accommodation, whatsoever. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the culture and politics of the time pwriod understands the Second Amendment with absolute clarity.

More opinion.

 

[Anathema]

More opinion.

If thats how you see it, then we have no basis for discussion on this topic or any other.

Good bye and welcone to my ignore list.

 

[NoNukes]

More opinion.

If thats how you see it, then we have no basis for discussion on this topic or any other.

Good bye and welcone to my ignore list.

A true coward.

 

[Howey]

Obama will nominate himself

You betcha!

Once again, I'm at the cutting edge of the news...

Why Obama Should Nominate Barack Obama For The Supreme Court Vacancy

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans have insisted that no matter who President Barack Obama nominates for the Supreme Court, there will be no hearings, no votes, no nothing. But there may be one potential candidate that Republicans would have a hard time blocking: Obama could appoint constitutional law professor Barack Obama.

There's roughly a zero percent chance this'll happen, but here's why it makes sense: Appointing Obama would put the GOP in the position they've desperately wanted to be in since the man was inaugurated. They'd have the chance to vote him out of office. If he's truly as dangerous and illegitimate a president as Republicans say, then this is their opportunity to get him out of the White House by putting him on the court.

The move would also give Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell a chance to virtually guarantee that he remains Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (McConnell would have to persuade his colleagues not to filibuster.) Some of the most vulnerable Republicans would have their 2016 chances boosted by voting to confirm Obama. Sens. Pat Toomey (Pa.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) would be assured re-election if they could peel off a small portion of Democratic voters grateful for the bipartisan move.

With those four alone, Democrats would have 50 votes, a tie that could be broken by Vice President Joe Biden -- who would be all too pleased to cast the deciding vote to make himself president, even if he'd become one of the shortest-serving presidents in history. And Biden, of course, would then name his longtime ally and Senate successor Ted Kaufman as vice president. If Biden happened to meet the same sudden fate as Antonin Scalia did, Kaufman could quickly go about the business of breaking up the banks.

 

[dannyboys]

More opinion.

If thats how you see it, then we have no basis for discussion on this topic or any other.

Good bye and welcone to my ignore list.

A true coward.

You're a fucking joke!
Permanent Ignore asshole!

 

[ninja007]

love when libs here pretend to give a shit about the Constitution. You say "someone not too far right or left, someone who abides by the Constitution"..... well guess what? that cancels out any hope for a lib justice! Only a conservative justice abides regularly by the COTUS.