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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Please, America, don't let a Republican win the presidency! Not with so many SCOTUS seats at risk!

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COMMENTS: 
*  He's a joke. Someone who never has to worry about his rights or job as he's guaranteed the one he has for life...
*  Then retire Scalia. You racist, homophobic, bible thumping, conservative dip schidt.
*  Your job is not to be a politician scalia, it's to interpret constitutional law.
*  Gay marriage isn't mentioned in the constitution, but "equal protection under the law" is.  Nobody yet has come up with any reason to oppose it except for religion- which doesn't drive the law. In the absence of specific mention, the constitution says that you MUST treat everyone equally. I can't imagine how Scalia or anyone else could miss that. He sounds like another petulant 3rd grader who didn't get his way.
*  Scalia is the slipperiest slope in that court. Letting the richest corporations give unlimited money to political candidates goes against the notion of a democratic system--in a major way.
*  Isn't Scabby part of the problem? Is he not a SCOTUS 'judge"? A self-indictment?
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Justice Scalia warns that the US Supreme Court is causing the 'destruction of our democratic system'
By Jeremy Berke, October 29, 2015

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was extra fiery during a talk at Santa Clara University in California this week, saying in no uncertain terms that the court had been making a lot of bad decisions.

In his speech, Scalia said he believes the "liberal" Supreme Court is heralding the "destruction of our democratic system," according to an account from the SF Gate.

According to Scalia, the court is giving citizens rights the Constitution doesn't specifically guarantee, like gay marriage and federally subsidized health insurance.

Scalia noted that this interpretation of the US Constitution as a so-called living document arose in the 1920s, when Supreme Court justices at the time interpreted the "guarantee of due process of law to protect fundamental rights not explicitly mentioned in constitutional text," according [to] SF Gate.

To Scalia, this was the beginning of a slippery slope that the US will struggle to recover from.

At the bottom of this slippery slope, according to Scalia, is the now-famous Obergefell v. Hodges case that legalized gay marriage across the country. In his dissent, his position is crystal clear: "To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation."

In the landmark cases the Supreme Court decided this year, Scalia has found himself in the minority. In King v. Burwell, the decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — Scalia derided his fellow justices' interpretation of the law as, "jiggery-pokery," and called the eventual decision in favor of the ACA, "pure applesauce."

With three current judges over 79 — the average age of retirement for Supreme Court justices is 78 — the next president will have a lot of appointments to make. If the Democrats take the White House in 2016, Scalia will certainly have more applesauce to look forward to.
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