Antonin Scalia

[howard]

I was thinking somewhere slightly closer to the mainland. Like Halifax, or Dartmouth, maybe a nice trailer park.

[sancarlos]

My fifteen year-old is already on record advocating a family move to Vancouver, if Trump wins. She means it. I have relatives in western Canada, and a few former Swampers live there, but no...

[Johnny Carwash]

Couldn't we just move to one of those thriving colonies set up by all the people that insisted they were going to leave when Bush won?

[duff]

Couldn't we just move to one of those thriving colonies set up by all the people that insisted they were going to leave when Bush won?

Or one of those thriving colonies set up by all the people that insisted they were going to leave when Obama won?

[The Sybian]

Couldn't we just move to one of those thriving colonies set up by all the people that insisted they were going to leave when Bush won?

Those colonies were governed by Liberal Socialist Fascist Communists, so they are nothing but raggedly clothed, half-starved people huddled around burning garbage cans.

[Jerloma]

Couldn't we just move to one of those thriving colonies set up by all the people that insisted they were going to leave when Bush won?

Those colonies were governed by Liberal Socialist Fascist Communists, so they are nothing but raggedly clothed, half-starved people huddled around burning garbage cans.

And homosexuals.

[Pruitt]

Cape Breton is advertising itself as a place to move if Trump wins.

Stunningly beautiful, home to the greatest golf courses I will ever play...

But don't move there. The largest city is tiny, and while the people are the friendliest you may ever meet, there's nothing there unless you're a lobster fisherman.

And don't we Canadians just love that the land we love is used as an empty threat by celebrities. I mean, Alec Baldwin should be on his 4th house in Canada by now.

[brian]

Cape Breton is advertising itself as a place to move if Trump wins.

Stunningly beautiful, home to the greatest golf courses I will ever play...

But don't move there. The largest city is tiny, and while the people are the friendliest you may ever meet, there's nothing there unless you're a lobster fisherman.

And don't we Canadians just love that the land we love is used as an empty threat by celebrities. I mean, Alec Baldwin should be on his 4th house in Canada by now.

What, you guys didn't have conservatives threatening to move to Texas if Trudeau won PM?

[Giff]

I've heard numerous Republican acquaintances here, including my mom and dad, saying they'll move if Trump is elected. I can't wait to throw that back in their face in a few weeks when they're pimping the obvious eventual Republican nominee.

[Pruitt]

Cape Breton is advertising itself as a place to move if Trump wins.

Stunningly beautiful, home to the greatest golf courses I will ever play...

But don't move there. The largest city is tiny, and while the people are the friendliest you may ever meet, there's nothing there unless you're a lobster fisherman.

And don't we Canadians just love that the land we love is used as an empty threat by celebrities. I mean, Alec Baldwin should be on his 4th house in Canada by now.

What, you guys didn't have conservatives threatening to move to Texas if Trudeau won PM?

Nah.

But I had uncles who used to wail about what a communist the first Trudeau was and that they'd be better off moving to the states.

Maybe three weeks a year in Florida, but they never followed through.

[The Sybian]

My first thought when I saw the news was, "this calls for breaking out the good scotch." Is that wrong? I felt a twinge of guilt, so I only broke out some good beers to celebrate.

[Johnnie]

Pass. Too cold. You can catch me in Panama or Belize.

Or Ecuador. Their currency is already the US Dollar and stuff there is cheap.

[The Sybian]

Pass. Too cold. You can catch me in Panama or Belize.

Or Ecuador. Their currency is already the US Dollar and stuff there is cheap.

I'd rather disappear in a Bolivian.

[brian]

Pass. Too cold. You can catch me in Panama or Belize.

Or Ecuador. Their currency is already the US Dollar and stuff there is cheap.

Yup, those are my three top choices.

[Shirley]

[Rex]

"Leave Off The 'E' For 'Extradition'"

[wlu_lax6]

Great headline..audible gasp
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[The Sybian]

Great headline..audible gasp
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Excuse me, where is the men's room?

[howard]

[Johnnie]

So, I gotta ask, why the fuck does he remain as silent as he does when he holds a position like that?

[govmentchedda]

We will see the "2nd amendment written out of the constitution?!" I'm no expert of the Constitution, but that simply is not how things happen is it?

You need to cut Ted some slack for not understanding how the Constitution or the Supreme Court work. After all, he is only a Princeton graduate with a degree in political science, Harvard Law grad who made Law Review, Supreme Court Clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist and as Solicitor General for Texas, represented the State in 9 cases before the Supreme Court.

I've never seen bigger egos than on attorneys who argue in front of the Supreme Court. See Randy Barnett.

Example #Infinity

[brian]

Looks like it's Merrick Garland, you guys. Now the fun begins.

[BSF21]

Looks like it's Merrick Garland, you guys. Now the fun begins.

Looks like this won't be the first time he's been put through the gridlock of the American Legislative System...

After winning the 1996 presidential election, Clinton renominated Garland on January 7, 1997.[17] Following a 19-month Republican stall of his nomination in the Senate,[2] Garland's confirmation vote finally came to floor of the Senate on March 19, 1997. Garland was confirmed in a 76-23 vote and received his commission the next day.

[brian]

Just goes to show how Obama plays chess and the GOP plays checkers. Garland is fairly moderate, has already been vetted and approved by the full Senate and is the oldest justice nominated to the court in 45 years. In short, it's hard to vote no on his nomination without looking like obstructionists. And it saves some of the younger justices for Clinton to nominate if they do reject his nomination. If somehow he doesn't get confirmed I'm sure the first thing she'll do is say "fuck you, I'll nominate Srivathian".

[brian]

This will likely be one hell of a confirmation battle, my guess is that Obama appoints a well respected moderate (Merrick Garland is my guess) who gets confirmed after a bunch of GOP posturing. It would be pretty absurd to have a vacant Supreme Court seat for 11+ months, which is what will happen if the Senate just refuses to confirm anyone.

Kudos here by the way.

[Rex]

Looks like it's Merrick Garland, you guys. Now the fun begins.

Looks like this won't be the first time he's been put through the gridlock of the American Legislative System...

After winning the 1996 presidential election, Clinton renominated Garland on January 7, 1997.[17] Following a 19-month Republican stall of his nomination in the Senate,[2] Garland's confirmation vote finally came to floor of the Senate on March 19, 1997. Garland was confirmed in a 76-23 vote and received his commission the next day.

Interesting that that was just added. Then again, I'm guessing a lot was just added today. With appointments of lower court judges, there's a lot of horse trading that goes on, sometimes for reasons that don't have much to do with the candidate (but do have everything to do with partisan politics).

[DaveInSeattle]

Just goes to show how Obama plays chess and the GOP plays checkers. Garland is fairly moderate, has already been vetted and approved by the full Senate and is the oldest justice nominated to the court in 45 years. In short, it's hard to vote no on his nomination without looking like obstructionists. And it saves some of the younger justices for Clinton to nominate if they do reject his nomination. If somehow he doesn't get confirmed I'm sure the first thing she'll do is say "fuck you, I'll nominate Srivathian".

I wonder how much this lovely quote from Sen. Hatch played into things:

The president told me several times he’s going to name a moderate [to fill the court vacancy], but I don’t believe him. [Obama] could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man. He probably won’t do that because this appointment is about the election. So I’m pretty sure he’ll name someone the [liberal Democratic base] wants.

And that quote is from last week...not 2 or 3 years ago.

[The Sybian]

Just goes to show how Obama plays chess and the GOP plays checkers. Garland is fairly moderate, has already been vetted and approved by the full Senate and is the oldest justice nominated to the court in 45 years. In short, it's hard to vote no on his nomination without looking like obstructionists. And it saves some of the younger justices for Clinton to nominate if they do reject his nomination. If somehow he doesn't get confirmed I'm sure the first thing she'll do is say "fuck you, I'll nominate Srivathian".

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter. The Rightwing media will flip out screaming about how Garland is a hardcore Liberal activist, will make sure babies are killed, the 2nd Amendment is destroyed, Christianity is criminalized while Islam is named the national religion and straight people are forced to get gay married at gunpoint by jackbooted UN troops.

[howard]

I was hoping to write at least he isn't another Catholic or Jew. Then I read his mother's maiden name was Horowitz. That'll make it 5-4 Catholics.

[sancarlos]

This will likely be one hell of a confirmation battle, my guess is that Obama appoints a well respected moderate (Merrick Garland is my guess) who gets confirmed after a bunch of GOP posturing. It would be pretty absurd to have a vacant Supreme Court seat for 11+ months, which is what will happen if the Senate just refuses to confirm anyone.

Kudos here by the way.

You don't want to go up against Joe K in your fantasy supreme court league.

[Johnnie]

By the looks of it, Garland is an excellent choice considering the response from everywhere except from Andrea Tantaros of Fox News.

and black women.

The former is SOP. But the latter...WTF? There's always a 'jilted' group from every decision ever. You gotta love the ego of someone saying that that decision is a "slap in the face." What bullshit.

[The Sybian]

By the looks of it, Garland is an excellent choice considering the response from everywhere except from Andrea Tantaros of Fox News.

and black women.

The former is SOP. But the latter...WTF? There's always a 'jilted' group from every decision ever. You gotta love the ego of someone saying that that decision is a "slap in the face." What bullshit.

Breezing through headlines on Google yesterday, the first couple of pages were either neutral, or noting Garland is pretty centrist, going Left on some issues, Right on others. Then the Washington Times article only discusses how Garland is a crazy anti-gun activist. The comments were pretty predictable, Obama nominated an America-hating Commie Justice so he can destroy the Constitution. And the Republicans would be crazy to even consider a nomination hearing for this Left Wing nutter. My favorites were the conspiracy theorists saying a hearing is pointless, because Garland will lie to the Senate, saying what they want to hear, then destroy America from the bench once approved. "We have no way of knowing how he would decide cases, he could say anything to the Senate!" In his 19 years as an Appellate Court Judge, he left no indication of how he would decide appealed cases.

[DaveInSeattle]

My favorites were the conspiracy theorists saying a hearing is pointless, because Garland will lie to the Senate, saying what they want to hear

Like Clarence Thomas did when he told the Senate that he'd never had any discussion, with anyone, about the legality of Abortion.