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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:47 PM Oct 2016

HRC ad shows why Trump pledging to appoint judges like Scalia is scary

Donald Trump pledged his admiration for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and his intent to appoint similar judges at the second presidential debate and the Human Rights Campaign is out with a new ad highlighting why that would be disastrous for the LGBTQ community.

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http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10/hrc-ad-shows-trump-pleding-appoint-judges-like-scalia-scary/


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HRC ad shows why Trump pledging to appoint judges like Scalia is scary (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
sadly... getagrip_already Oct 2016 #1
Much like Ronald Reagan, death was a great career move for Antonin Scalia rurallib Oct 2016 #2

rurallib

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2. Much like Ronald Reagan, death was a great career move for Antonin Scalia
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 05:19 PM
Oct 2016

By never being able to open their mouths again, neither can add to their litany of stupidity. Nor can either engage in stupid activities.

And their adherents seldom remember the idiot things either said or did. Their reputations grow after death through selective memories and enlarging tales of their deeds.

I always laughed when Scalia was deemed a "conservative intellectual" as if there was such a thing. All he did was make up fancy sounding excuses for keeping many groups of Americans as second class citizens.

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