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DONT PANIC ALL IS NOT LOST--YET
2/13/2016 | Windhover

Posted on 02/13/2016 2:46:05 PM PST by windhover

It has been confirmed that Judge Scalia is dead in his room at a Texas resort. No eulogy, but the man will far more than deeply missed as a soldier holding the line for our Constitution.

Suddenly this election has become much more complicated and more important than even the most pessimistic among us had realized. We must use this election as a final and clearest of statements to the US Senate that will confirm Obama's next(and rapid) appointment to the Supreme Court; that THEY MUST NOT ACT TO CONFIRM Scalia's successor, UNTIL this election is over!!

We must come together now, no matter what candidate we support and FLOOD every senator's switchboard and mail box.

Contact every conservative network in your grass roots, be it Libertarian, Church,Legal Bureau, and,yes- Prayer Chain you know of.

IF, IF this Republican Senate will not find the guts to do this much, we must make them understand CLEARLY that they will from that moment ceased to exist, as a political party.

We dont even need to think of the Crap that Obama could push through the Court if they cave and betray this time.


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KEYWORDS: antoninscalia; obituaries; obituary; scalia; scotus; supremecourt; texas
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To: windhover

RIP Justice Scalia.

There will probably be at least one more out this term by retirement. Obama will make his nominations.

I fear that the GOP isn’t capable of playing this game. I hope I’m wrong.

Sombody’s got to pull out the Bork playbook.


61 posted on 02/13/2016 3:09:22 PM PST by HarborSentry
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To: Publius

Is the size of the USSC even specified in a statute?


62 posted on 02/13/2016 3:09:38 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: JudyinCanada

I’m sure 0bama has interrupted his west coast golf game to notify Supreme Court Justice Nominee Eric Holder of his upcoming appointment.


63 posted on 02/13/2016 3:10:09 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: DannyTN

Again...how did Cruz give us Roberts? Cruz was not in the Senate to cast a single vote much less a deciding vote when Roberts was voted to the SC.


64 posted on 02/13/2016 3:11:11 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Yes. The Constitution only specifies that there is to be a Supreme Court and how it is to be populated. But Congress decides on the size of the Court by statute.


65 posted on 02/13/2016 3:11:14 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Macoozie

What a nightmare possibility. Sleepless nights to follow.


66 posted on 02/13/2016 3:11:46 PM PST by catbertz
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To: LS

Trump couldn’t be trusted to uphold the agreement. It may be illegal to make those sorts of deals, anyway.


67 posted on 02/13/2016 3:12:48 PM PST by FreedomForce (http://trumpthemovie.com/watch/)
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To: windhover

According to precedent per the 1968 election, the pick of a new Supreme Court justice is made by the next president.


68 posted on 02/13/2016 3:14:05 PM PST by GilGil
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To: jy8z

Wasn’t Cruz working for Bush at the time, and Bush appointed Roberts.


69 posted on 02/13/2016 3:14:09 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Publius

I think the number was seven for a long stretch.


70 posted on 02/13/2016 3:14:32 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: windhover

The Senate can delay this until a new President is sworn in. Its not a problem unless they make it a problem.


71 posted on 02/13/2016 3:14:38 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: scooby321

Can you name one conservative that was against Roberts? How was anyone to know what he would do in the future? W nominated him and the Senate approved him. Take your hate somewhere else.


72 posted on 02/13/2016 3:14:43 PM PST by Rusty0604 (1q)
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To: GilGil

That’s not a legal precedent. At best it can be described as a political precedent, but one that has no meaning.


73 posted on 02/13/2016 3:14:58 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Macoozie

Ruth Buzzie Ginsberg has every intention of dying on the Supreme Court. She is not going to retire.


74 posted on 02/13/2016 3:16:11 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: GilGil
According to precedent per the 1968 election, the pick of a new Supreme Court justice is made by the next president.

Which the Republicans need to be shouting from the top of the hills right now.

The Republicans just gained a huge bargaining chip here, why would they fritter it away by caving in on allowing a new SC Justice to sit before the election?

75 posted on 02/13/2016 3:16:39 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: FreedomForce

Nope, not illegal at all. Happened in the Compromise of 1877, although there was a wink and nod. And, yes, Trump would uphold his end or he would get NO senate confirmation of any justice. That’s why it’s a good deal for all.


76 posted on 02/13/2016 3:17:12 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: bolobaby
we're talking about the future. Try to keep up.

Oh, I'm keeping up. There is NO guarantee that any judge picked by Cruz or Trump are going to toe the conservative line.

Besides, with Cruz having many puppet masters, who knows from which pool he would draw his judicial candidates.

77 posted on 02/13/2016 3:17:17 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (The Democrats Must Lose In November)
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To: dynachrome

I thought we were like Venezuela already; we lost on abortion, affirmative action, ObamaCare - I’m past pretending there was any conservatism in the Supreme Court (or the other branches of the government). We lose regardless of who is in the White House, the Congress, or the Supreme Court; doesn’t anyone else see that?


78 posted on 02/13/2016 3:17:43 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: jy8z
Cruz and Roberts go way back

"Both Cruz and Roberts clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist early in their careers, Roberts from 1980 to 1981, Cruz in the mid-1990s.

"After Election Day in 2000, Cruz was a lawyer working on the legal battle over the Florida recount for the Bush/Cheney presidential campaign. Cruz told the Miami Herald that Roberts' name was the first that came to mind when he was asked to help find lawyers to work on the litigation. Roberts reportedly helped with legal briefs and participated in a mock hearing to prepare Bush’s legal team.\ ...

When President George W. Bush nominated Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, Cruz was an outspoken advocate for his confirmation, calling him “brilliant” and a “lawyer’s lawyer."

79 posted on 02/13/2016 3:18:45 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Obama is such a narcissist he might even nominate himself.


80 posted on 02/13/2016 3:18:58 PM PST by FreedomForce (http://trumpthemovie.com/watch/)
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