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Why Scalia should resign [Barf alert]
The Week ^ | 06/29/2015 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 06/29/2015 8:33:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Instead of having Scalia resign, how about we try the six for treason?


21 posted on 06/29/2015 8:54:04 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

Guinsberg? She’s the little shitfaced one, right?


22 posted on 06/29/2015 8:57:05 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SeekAndFind
Scalia's considered view is that the court has usurped power from Congress in the health care law, and from the American people themselves in the marriage case.

And Mr. Justice Scalia is absolutely correct in both cases.

Is the author a sodomite socialist?

23 posted on 06/29/2015 8:58:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: sitetest

Tar.

Feathers.

Fencerail.

Use only as directed ...


24 posted on 06/29/2015 9:00:00 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain

BYOR.


25 posted on 06/29/2015 9:03:15 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

Or at least impeach them.

Wonder where our brave House members are?


26 posted on 06/29/2015 9:13:31 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Twinkie

RE: I don’t know what the “obloquy of the putsch” means

Obloquy: strong public criticism or verbal abuse

Putsch: a violent attempt to overthrow a government.


27 posted on 06/29/2015 9:16:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Adder

I think that ship has sailed. Or never launched.


28 posted on 06/29/2015 9:17:37 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The writer of this screed apparently believes that the Court should follow the whims of popular opinion no matter what the constitution says. In other words, because Scalia is out of step with a number of other unconstitutional opinions over the decades, he should resign.

Just another liberal banging his spoon on his highchair because somebody didn't agree with him.

29 posted on 06/29/2015 9:17:53 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: cincinnati65

As much as I disagree with Scalia in some of his decents, I tend to like him and his view points. He has done nothing wrong to the point of having to resign.


30 posted on 06/29/2015 9:18:33 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: SeekAndFind

Because he has too much dignity to continue to ride aboard the clown car for any more absurd majority decisions.

Quitting and writing a tell-all book about what really goes on in there would be much more helpful to the nation.


31 posted on 06/29/2015 9:24:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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The only reason Scalia should resign is because our next President has asked him to be Attorney General.

Absolutely not. He is much, much more valuable (and certainly more needed) on the Supreme Court than as AG.

32 posted on 06/29/2015 9:35:02 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: sitetest
Instead of having Scalia resign, how about we try the six for treason?

Because you don't defend the Constitution by destroying it. Trying them for treason would be unconstitutional. The Constitution defines treason very narrowly:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

As Justice Scalia reminded this week (sadly, in dissent), words have meaning. And the Constitutional definition of treason is plainly not intended to include instances in which the Supreme Court issues an incorrect (even woefully incorrect and dangerous) judicial opinion.

33 posted on 06/29/2015 9:41:09 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Quitting and writing a tell-all book about what really goes on in there would be much more helpful to the nation.

Ginsburg does a lot of napping. As for Sotomayor and Kagan, they're probably on the line with the White House a lot to see how they should vote.

34 posted on 06/29/2015 9:51:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, keep him on the SCOTUS.


35 posted on 06/29/2015 9:55:24 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Not much left to be told. There’s Bob Woodward’s book, ‘The Brethern’, Michael Toobin’s book, ‘The Nine’ and many others.

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Page/39/Books_About_the_Supreme_Court

What’s lacking isn’t knowledge. What’s lacking is the will to restrain them.


36 posted on 06/29/2015 9:59:52 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Rummyfan
As for Sotomayor and Kagan,

Don't be shocked when those two freaks get themselves a nice, legal sodomite ceremony ... I think Kagan is the 'groom' ...

37 posted on 06/29/2015 10:04:16 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain

I think Kagan is the ‘groom’ ...

Yes, perhaps so...yes, definitely...definitely a ‘groom on a broom...’


38 posted on 06/29/2015 10:55:57 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Puppage

One can’t help but notice that even Ginsberg refuses
to resign during this administrations tenure.


39 posted on 06/29/2015 11:45:10 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
Dear Conscience of a Conservative.

The hidden premise of your post is that we have a legitimate, constitutional government.

We don't. We have an illegitimate, unconstitutional regime that has dissolved much of our Constitution, rendered it null, and imposes its illegal will by force, making war against the people and the ;ate government of the United States.

That is treason.


sitetest

40 posted on 06/29/2015 8:05:34 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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