Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch

My San Antonio ^ | Updated 3:53 pm, Saturday, February 13, 2016 | Gary Martin

[Pan_Yan]

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said.

Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa. According to a report, Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did not appear for breakfast, a person associated with the ranch went to his room and found a body.

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery said he was among those notified about Scalia's death.

"I was told it was this morning," Biery said of Scalia's death. "It happened on a ranch out near Marfa. As far as the details, I think it's pretty vague right now as to how," he said. "My reaction is it's really unfortunate with any death. And now, politically, in the presidential cycle we're in my educated guess is nothing will happen before the next president is elected."

[TBP]

Not if they want to block it.

[RightLady]

was Earl Warren’s seat Johnson tried to fill it Dems in control when Nixon came in refused hia first 2 nominees

[TBP]

Michael Luttig would be one of the top choices. Janice Rogers Brown, as mentioned earlier, would be another.

Shake them up — nominate Roy Moore and Andrew Napolitano.

[TBP]

He flat-out said that Bush lied.

He’s vulnerable on 0bamacare because he’s repeatedly praised socialized medicine — “It works incredibly well in canada adn Scotland” — and has recently said that everyone will be covered and “the government will pay for it.”

He advocates free market solutions from time to time, but then he seems to fall back to a government-control position.

[TBP]

Nixon filled Warren’s seat with Warren Burger.

Remember, Fortas was forced to resign. I think it was that seat, but I might be wrong.

Haynsworth would have been a good justice.

[Jane Long]

Yawn.

I watched the debate, every debate for that matter....and, I’ve watched just about every interview and rally of Trump’s.

He’s not the one lying and he’s not the vulnerable one....the amnesty PAC owned, career politician candidates are.

Good day.

[TBP]

Are you kidding? He lies with regularity.

[Jane Long]

Are you kidding? He lies with regularity.

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Yes...that’s why CRuz’s new name is untrusTED.

Take care.

[Nationale7]

If the vote is block all the way to the election, voter turnout on both sides goes way up, because the game is ON. Question is, which side goes higher?

[citizen]

He will be missed. Both personally as a quality individual and as the constitutional backbone of the court.

[Mr Apple]

"There is a time to be born and a time to die. A time to keep and a time to cast away."

Rest in Peace Justice Scalia

[TBP]

Are you kidding? Tramp lies with regularity.

[Democratic-Republican]

The more I think about it, the more I hope Obama will get together with Senate leaders and submit a consensus candidate that can be confirmed with little contention from either side. And BEFORE the political party conventions this summer.

Dear God, no. Just No!

That one paragraph encapsulates everything wrong with our side and how so much damage has been done to the Constitution and the United States in such a short period of time. God save us from the "compromisers". It's as if Lindsey Graham has a FReeper account! Scalia's body isn't even cold yet and the white flag of surrender is already being reached for.

We're facing the end of the republic here. Lead, follow or get out of the way.

[Democratic-Republican]

Grahamnesty on Fox now, dumping on Cruz, saying he wouldn't want him apptmt nor Liz Warren BUT if it's "reasonable" he'll support... And he LOVES Roberts as a "conservative"... Cripes, SC, why this guy? No Trump apptmt, but oh Jeb is a okay...Cruz not electable...

Graham on Fox stating that JEB is the only candidate who will be able to be elected and then appoint true conservative justices....Hmmmm

Look above at the previous comment I replied to from "Religion and Politics" for the reason we have Lindsey Grahams.

Trophy for Dumbest Man in the United States Senate, previously held by Joe Biden

Back in the Clinton era there were two darlings that did full 180° turns from defending the republic to actively trying to destroy it. There was David Brock, who was famously skewering the Clinton Crime Syndicate, and House member Graham who famously became a "manager" in the Senate Impeachment trial where he flubbed the easiest case ever handed to a prosecutor. Every case he touched as a Jag during his "service" should be re-opened. There is no way to even imagine a more incompetent boob than Lindsey.

Brock is a flaming homo of course, and it is no stretch to believe the internationalist cabal of Soros and the like first blackmailed him, got him to panic and back off, and then later began supplying his decadent habit with a supply of ~ahem~ men. This kind of blackmail was common in the intelligence game for straights or homos and there is no reason to doubt it would work in politics.

Graham strikes me as a pussy of the first order. A boy in men's clothes and likely a homo in the closet. Have they gotten to him? That would be my guess.

[Democratic-Republican]

What FDR did manage to do was intimidate the Court into approving most of his programs anyway.

Every so often TBP you actually make sense. Not sure of the ratio between TDS Trump Derangement posts to relatively normal but there might be hope for you yet.

The thing about FDR is that he of course had a Congress to back him up. It is the very reason there was a New Deal in the first place. And since Congress can alter the makeup of the Supreme Court, to intimidate them was a simple exercise of arithmetic. And the numbers for FDR were staggering ...

========================= HOUSE ======= SENATE ===========
Session === Years ===== (D) - (R) ==== (D) - (R) =========
.71st ... 1929-1931 ... 163 - 267 ..... 39 - 56 ... Hoover
.72nd ... 1931-1933 ... 216 - 218 ..... 47 - 48 ...    "
.73rd ... 1933-1935 ... 313 - 117 ..... 59 - 36 ... FDR 1st
.74th ... 1935-1937 ... 322 - 103 ..... 69 - 25 ...    "
.75th ... 1937-1939 ... 333 -  89 ..... 75 - 17 ... FDR 2nd
.76th ... 1939-1941 ... 262 - 169 ..... 69 - 23 ...    "
.77th ... 1941-1943 ... 267 - 162 ..... 66 - 28 ... FDR 3rd
.78th ... 1943-1945 ... 222 - 209 ..... 57 - 38 ...    "

It was in 1936 that the Court struck down the AAA, the massive federalization of farming agriculture based on the ridiculous notion of being necessary because their products affect the prices of other unrelated things, which is the root of the basis for all commerce clause federalization.

That ruling and then FDR's subsequent re-election altered the course of history. The "intimidation" really occurred in between 74th and 75th Congresses, just look at the new margins that FDR received after his 1936 re-election with an astonishing House majority of 333-89 and a Senate 75-17.

FDR never had a single moment where he could not do whatever he wanted. Our Congress was practically a politburo and Stalin and Hitler were likely jealous. But the sequence of events is what actually killed us. His re-election was the message the Court was looking at and that is what actually destroyed the Constitution.

If our current Congress holds fast, I mean if the Senate and Mitch and McCain hold off the begging of Schumer and Durbin and Graham, and avoid the inevitable 'offers they can't refuse' from Dumbo ( just imagine Barry agreeing to some huge budget concession or even on firearms so the Republicrats can brag they won something ) in exchange for a vote on his Supreme Court selection, then we can win this thing, but only if they hold fast.

I'm not optimistic.

[Democratic-Republican]

This is one of the reasons I'm a Cruz supporter. I think he's strongest in terms of the Supreme Court.

I wonder if this might get the RINOs to think twice about their effort to oust Senator Lee. Lee is Cruz's friend. Could you see President Cruz appointing Mike Lee to the Supreme Court?

That bold part is the problem at hand. You gotta be President before you get to pick anybody. And to become President with the current electorate means winning in the twelve swing states, that are not "red" ( we already have those ) and show no signs of clamoring for a evangelical doctrinaire conservative who jabbers openly about abortion, homo marriage and other topics that the (D)ummies use to beat us over the head with. The states with populations that are amenable to morality plays and ideological arguments are already "red" and in our column. OH, PA, MI, WI, VA, FL, NC, IA, IN, NM, NV, CO are the issue.

Furthermore, there is no predicting how any President will fare with his Supreme Court selections. None. This is a bit of a strawman. You think you can figure it out but you cannot. It is a mere article of faith. Batting averages ...

Eisenhower ... 1 for 4 ... .250 ... Warren, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart
Nixon ........ 1 for 4 ... .250 ... Burger, Blackmum, Powell, Rehnquist 
Ford ......... 0 for 1 ... .000 ... Stevens 
Reagan ....... 1 for 3 ... .333 ... O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy 
Bush41 ....... 1 for 2 ... .500 ... Souter, Thomas 
Bush43 ....... 1 for 2 ... .500 ... Roberts, Alito

As I said before, our guys really suck at this. It does not matter who they are. If this was baseball, the two Bush's would look like Ted Williams, but it's not baseball. It's more like russian roulette with a 9mm with a magazine of 16 bullets and only 5 of them are blanks and 11 of them are live.

Feel free to believe you are clairvoyant and can accurately say with certainty that your guy will rule at this. You are unfortunately gambling the fate of the republic by first believing he can get past the Kardashian electorate of 2016. And if he does not, and loses as bad as McCain and Romney, we not only lose the entire executive branch and the Supreme Court, but the RINOs will then have their Goldwater scapegoat to exile us again, forever.

[Democratic-Republican]

We have just lost a very great man and I fear for our country. We have to prevent Obama from replacing him. This is the hill to die on.

Yes sir, it is.

[Democratic-Republican]

Antonin Scalia Died today. We want to know why. If he was a smoker as some on this thread have said, well... He was lucky to live to 79.

Your question about a protective detail however, was the first thing that entered my mind. I haven't read all of the responses on this thread yet, but hopefully someone will know.

I just hope there was no one "with" him last night...

Well, we need to remember that genes are a huge part of this.

The oldest person ever proved to have lived was Jeanne Calment who died at 122, and "smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992).[2][16] According to one source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day", and also there is this: "Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to a diet rich in olive oil[4] (which she also rubbed onto her skin), as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram (2.2 lb) of chocolate every week".

On the other hand I just did a quick check of the two oldest living people who are both 116 years old and are amazingly the last two people alive who were born in the 1800's ( McKinley was President! ). And one of them claims to have never smoked, and the other has no information.

At least one other of these super long-lived people was a lifetime smoker, I just can't find the info at this moment. It's not that smoking makes you live longer, it's that genes and other things can be dominant variables in these cases.

[Freedom56v2]

Grahamnesty on Fox now, dumping on Cruz, saying he wouldn’t want him apptmt nor Liz Warren BUT if it’s “reasonable” he’ll support... And he LOVES Roberts as a “conservative”... Cripes, SC, why this guy? No Trump apptmt, but oh Jeb is a okay...Cruz not electable...

Graham on Fox stating that JEB is the only candidate who will be able to be elected and then appoint true conservative justices....Hmmmm

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Grahamnesty is outrageous...Jeb?!?!?! Give me a break!!!

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[Freedom56v2]

We’re facing the end of the republic here. Lead, follow or get out of the way.

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Got that right!