Today in Supreme Court History: February 13, 2016

2/13/16: Justice Antonin Scalia died.

Justice Antonin Scalia

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[Dilan Esper]

And then all hell broke loose.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Fortunately Merrick Garland, whom the chairman of the Republican Judiciary Committee had specifically mentioned as an acceptable nominee, was promptly nominated to replace him.

[DaivdBehar]

Ivy indoctrinated, big government lawyer. When he visited, I was not allowed to ask him about the supernatural core doctrines of the common law, plagiarized from the Catholic catechism of the 13th century. Shame he died before answering for the psychotic beliefs of the lawyer profession, the most toxic profession in the nation, 100 times more damaging than organized crime.

[DaivdBehar]

Scalia led the jihad at the Supreme Court against mandatory sentencing guidelines. They had dropped all crimes, and the murder of black males 40%. A 3% decarceration caused a surge of 15% in their murders immediately. The COVID lockdown surge of 50% of murder is on top of that surge, plus that of the Ferguson Effect. These surges in crime have a reform masking ideology. They are really to promote fuller employment of the rent seeking lawyer profession, the most toxic profession in the nation.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Toned down into a neutral question, that is one that I actually would like to see him having been asked. As Europe, post-Rome, was to varying extents a theocracy for at least 1600 years, arguably longer, and with The Enlightenment largely being centered around Christian values, to what extent is our legal and political system based on the Canon law of the Middle Ages.

While our common law is based on that of England, the 13th Century predates Henry the Eighth by a century and hence England was Catholic at the time. With what followed, I'm not sure how much knowledge remains of that time, let alone its impact on the English common law. It's an interesting question...

[DaivdBehar]

After a month of CLE, the lawyers of 1275 AD would be top performing litigators today. They felt deeply ashamed if they let a case reach substance. They were 10 times more procedural than we were. The rent seeking, inscrutable lawyer gibberish to force people to hire them, they learned from the French. This nightmare situation of today, with utter failure of every law goal, and massive damage to our people and to our economy, was learned from France. In Braveheart, they all spoke French, including William Wallace. William dated the French Queen. Edward I, mass murderer of Jews, Irish, Scot, and Welsh, Longshank's judge was Henry of Bratton (called Brittany today). Henry wrote the Notebook with 80% of today's US practice in there. He was a monk. His Notebook was cool in 1275 AD, not cool today, in our secular nation. Edward's portrait is in the House Gallery of Great Lawgivers. He set up the modern Parliament. I would like that genocidal maniac's portrait removed from there.

[Dr. Ed 2]

I'm not saying that he was murdered, only that he died under rather suspicious circumstances....

[Mr. Hook]

Of course you do.

Let's all guess your prime suspects: Obama; Soros; BLM; Antifa; Hunter Biden; Harris; Pelosi; Trotsky (you don't believe he actually died seventy years ago, do you?); the people of Amherst. Any others?

[Jason Cavanaugh]

Don't forget Ben Ghazi. I'm sure that name is on Ed's list too. 😀

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Conspiracy-addled, superstitious, bigoted conservatives are among my favorite culture war casualties.

[Krychek_2]

You know Trotsky used to write an advice column. It was called Ax Mr. Trotsky.

[Jimmy the Dane]

The press would describe his death as a "mostly not suspicious..."

[Jimmy the Dane]

Yeah it is crazy to think Scalia got the pillow treatment while on vacation in an extremely remote area of the country without secret service protection....

Things that are certainly NOT crazy to believe though...

- The climate is changing because of whatever man is currently doing because of ever moving goal posts
- "White supremacy" is our countries top problem
- BLM is a mostly peaceful organization

[Dr. Ed 2]

I was amazed that the Volunteer Ambulance Crew had to borrow a boat to get Roberts off Hupper Island when he had a serious seizure a few years ago. Apparently no USSS nor anything else, no plans for medical emergencies, just a regular taxpayer making a 911 call.

So maybe SCOTUS justices *do* vacation in remote areas of the country without USSS protection.

What puzzled me though was the pillow OVER the face, not under it. You'd think it would be under his head, not over it, and that he'd have cleared his face in an attempt to breathe.

[DaivdBehar]

The Justices vacation in Europe. They pick up their next sick, big government doctrines, and bring these toxic delusions back, to impose on our nation.

[Milhouse]

What pillow over the face? There was no such report that I ever saw. The pillow was reported as being over his head, which is a very different thing, and quite normal.

[Krychek_2]

Scalia was an old man who was obese and a heavy smoker. I guess I don’t find it that hard to believe he could have died suddenly just like it was reported.

But then, I do find it hard to believe the overwhelming majority of climate scientists are either incompetent or on the take, so there’s that.

[Jimmy the Dane]

To be fair "climate scientists" are rarely wrong because when the data doesn't support their latest doom and gloom they just move the goal posts....

[Krychek_2]

Jimmy, you don’t understand how science actually works, do you? That’s fine, most people who don’t work in a given field don’t really know how that field works.

[Queen Amalthea]

The conservative movement has gone from a mainstream wanting less and good government and a conspiracy theory fringe to the other way around.