Is this real?

...a death is never easy to deal with.

Wow.

Right now!

wonder who he'll get his direction from now

and now outright laughter?

Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing in the Streets!

As for his family and friends I don't think so. My condolences to the family and friends. After that I have to agree, timing couldn't be better, now hopefully we can get better decisions from the SCOTUS.

consider what his judgments did to the rest of us, or even try to hide his dislike of the common man. I guess I have just been taught not to speak ill of the dead, at least not in a public forum.

Time to get the party started:

Stooping to the level of the rwers who celebrated Carters cancer diagn

but I don't feel it strongly enough to spoil your celebration. I mean the guy was an asshole, no argument about that.

Shit just got more interesting didn't it

It has been confirmed.

This is big.

His ideology was awful and his decisions were very wrong, but I still offer condolences.

With that said, we are in for one contentious Supreme Court battle. This is for the balance.

end of the next session.

be good until the end of this session of Congress which I think runs till the end of the year.

I'll take it

This congress won't allow any Obama selections through.,I'm sure of it. They'll filibuster.

We need to make lemonade out of the situation. Overthrow Citizens United with a liberal court asap

And there is some pretty nasty shit in the pipeline.

The filibuster is a tool for the minority to use.

if Obama tries to move forward



I don't know the protocol on that and would love to be educated

is that the filibuster is something that the minority party uses in order to prevent a vote from going forward. Since the GOP has the majority they can simply vote en masse to deny confirmation to any appointee.

say Obama appoints tomorrow, recognizing the probable futility of getting a new justice approved (while still going through the approval process of course)

Would that appointee take over cases immediately and have full authority?

of the Senate is to "advise and consent." IOW, the Republicants can stand firm and deny confirmation to anyone. I'm not sure what the president can do then. But there is no reason at this point for the Rs to confirm anyone Obama appoints. They know that there is an election in nine months, and that there is a good chance the R candidate will win. If that seat is vacant for most of the next year, they won't care.

start getting pertinent legislation passed during the filibuster. I guarantee you if they do, the process will move forward.

Their duty is to ensure that laws passed by Congress are Constitutional.

I have no idea what will happen with their decisions. There could be a lot of ties, in which case I would assume those cases get punted to next year.

So much legislation that is passed is overturned or meddled with by the Supreme Court it is hard to remember they didn't pass the legislation in the first place. Many laws that have passed the congress have been constitutional, however the activist court finds a way to deny the fact, I suppose constitutionality is in the eye of the beholder.

Window of opportunity.
But if would be very Un-Obama like.
Bush sure as hell would have.

But like you said it's not permanent. The senate has to confirm the justice for it to be for life.

That's why Obama needs the senate to confirm a replacement.

Recess appointments end when the new congress is sworn in.

But I have to say he was totally inappropriate for a seat on SCOTUS. With Obama being sort of a lame duck, will they give him a fight on whomever he nominates as a replacement? Hmm, I guess we will have to wait and see.

Bernie's gonna get a few justices

in what I consider reputable news....I think we might need to wait a bit at least until this is confirmed by the MSM.

Chronicle and a host of other newspapers.

however, I have found it in several other papers since I posted. Including this one http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35571868

My condolences to the family of Antonin Scalia. As for the rest of us, this is definitely a game changer, this makes this election more important than ever. This will also give President Obama an opportunity to replace him on the court. I sure hope he will nominate someone that is not Wall Street friendly.

I can't say what I really want to, but this better be true.

I hate it when I get my hopes up for nuthin'!

There were numerous others.

AMEN

about the further implications of this situation.

Condolences to his family and I never want someone to die but this has the chance of really swinging the court to the left.

but I am hopeful of a BETTER TOMORROW

LT

Don't want to dance on his grave -- that would be very bad manners and in poor style. But this is huge!

Obama can remake the court in one fell swoop. And if he can't the next president will.

Don't waste a vote. The future of many, many things is at stake

Obama gets to pick one and now the court tilts to the right.

Discovered dead after not coming for breakfast.

A Ted Cruz special is coming our way.

saying what a great job he did rolling back the liberal ways of this country.

and by us I mean the Dems - Hillary supporters and Bernie supporters (of which I am one). This will get the right wing lunatics motivated to vote like nothing else - saving the beloved Scalia seat. I don't think they will trust Trump with the appointment, so I'm thinking Jeb might see a boost.

The Rs are the majority. They don't have to filibuster.

delay delay delay

Meet you there.

Scalia was an enemy of humanity and I'm glad he's dead.

many of his opinions sounded like the apoplectic ravings of a most unpleasant individual.

I no longer feel any remorse for dancing...

He was unfit for the court.

If Obama can't get anyone through this will give people incentive to come out and vote. It's more important than ever to nominate Bernie to ensure we win the general and get a real liberal appointed.

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Bernie has a better chance of getting someone in, if for no other reason he knows how to use the bully pulpit. Plus I'm sure he will appoint a better quality Justices than his opposition will.

Hillary uses.

I does complicate the campaign.

Lets hope the grid lock congress will accept his nomination.

They will hope to get a GOP president in 2017 and he will appoint another conservative to the Supreme Court.

Either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton must win in November 2016.

Barack Obama is the President for another 340+ days.

If we were attacked, would the GOP demand a response be delayed until November?
If the nation was suddenly felled with natural disasters, should the aid be earmarked for the next POTUS?

The president nominates justices. That is part and parcel of our government. Anyone in that government refusing to do their job should be immediately renditioned to Gitmo (that abomination is still in existence due to the GOP, the President still holds the supreme executive authority to have ANYONE suspected of ANY CRIME sent to that hole...I say grab McConnell and anyone else who opines against the consititutional role of the office of the president for the next 11 months.

FILL THE COURT NOW....I would prefer that it be before Scalia's corpse is fully stiff.

If the rethugs block an Obama nomination, then please God/fate/universe, let the next president be Bernie Sanders.

We don't need another Wall Street-friendly Supreme Court justice.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

for putting that SOB in the court.

in peace, even while his earthly reputation is honestly evaluated.

He and Stevens wrote a wonderful defense of Habeas corpus and due process for detainees in their dissenting opinion in Hamdi v Bush, for example, and he many times defended fourth amendment rights as well as other rights in the bill of rights. I disagreed with him more than I agreed with him, but he was not just a conservative ideologue, as some like to suggest. He actually had to defend his opinions with serious legal arguments, and he was quite skilled at doing so.

Ginsberg, who I adore, was his friend, and like her, I respect him in spite of my many disagreements with him.

This is a GREAT DAY for celebration, that evil clown is gone. just one in a pile of these creeps, I hope to see Cheney joining him soon in that special place Hell they love to pretend exist. For us to be charitable about this cretin is beyond ridiculous.

This guy was pivotal for a great deal evil that fell upon the world in the 2000 elections and since.

So please, this is a moment to celebrate even if briefly.

Who will tell him what to think now?

that doesn't mean this Congress won't vote "no" on every nominee though...

I suspect they will simply vote no on anyone for the next 9 months

That's all I have to say.

until the new republican president is sworn in next January.

This probably means next June's big decisions will be 4-4 ties - could be quite interesting.

Ginsburg's best friend on the court.

through either.

trying to skirt those little details in the constitution.

are with those who knew and loved him, but that's it. I will not miss him on the court, his contribution to bad rulings, or him speaking out against minorities. And I agree--this could be the beginning of a major pendulum shift on the court, particularly if Hillary or Bernie wins in November. The next president may be able to appoint as many as 3 new justices, or even more! Plus, even if the GOP Senate blocks the president from appointing a new judge, many R's are up for re-election this year. So there would be even more evidence of them standing in the way of getting things done.

Between Hillary, Bernie, and Obama, he has by far the best chance of getting one approved.

IF not (as I've been saying), the other two -- especially Hillary because she's especially hated -- don't have a hope in hell.

Come on Obama!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, someone who would be an asset on SCOTUS has been on television
in Mexico most of the day. I know he isn't eligible, but just saying. Karma?

but now I am. He is one guy I will speak ill of after death, he was one evil SOB.

Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!

the Republicans will be saying Obama had him killed.

and I won't in this instance, either. I will say, however, good riddance.

HE did though!