Posted on 02/13/2016 1:55:56 PM PST by 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."
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May God comfort the Scalia family.
May God help our country. Things look dismal but i always know God is in control.
Amen and Amen
May Justice Scalia rest in peace. He was doing the Lord’s work on that court. As my username suggests, he was my second favorite justice on that court.
At first I thought “Oh no! Obama will get another liberal in”. But then I remembered we have a Republican senate. Hopefully they will “grow a pair” and delay things until we can get President Cruz in there.
This will definitely help the Cruz campaign. Cruz clerked for Scalia if I remember correctly.
mine are Boxer and Feinstein, oh crap
Yeah, there is nothing we could do to even get us to READ something we wrote. They are part of the evil machine.
I do not trust any government report because the federal government is unworthy of any trust.
There is no bottom limit to the depravity and immorality of the Obama administration.
Especially in matters concerning a potential power shift of this magnitude.
There is nothing Obama will not do to make good his promise to transform America.
Liberals kill 1.4 million helpless babies every year.
A public figure standing in their way wouldn’t be a mild bump to them.
Nope, the GOP will put in whoever Obama wants, just watch. They’ll give us a bunch of crap about how they wouldn’t want Dems to hold up a Republican President’s nominee knowing they’re putting the last nail in America’s coffin.
White House ecstatic right now...heck all of them are. Eric Holder?
Has he had any known health issues??
Check for polonium.
“The Republicans in the senate have to prevent a Obama appointee confirmation by any means necessary.”
Unfortunately, I have no faith whatsoever in them to do so. This is just awful.
I hope the Senators running for President show up for work.
Info on SCOTUS appointments
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1079402,00.html
Hope currently feckless GOP Senate can run out the clock until 2017.
CRUZ clerked for Renquist, I think.
[Interesting timing.]
Yes. How ..... convenient.
Breaking everywhere now.
Crap...
F*ck, S*it. This cannot be real.
Eric Holder?
Republicans own both houses of Congress. They had better not dare to confirm ANYONE that Obama appoints!
On a gentler note, if one was to die, why could it have not been Ruth Bader-Ginsburg?
We may be screwed every which way, but I wouldn't give Obama some Socialist Commie. Stretch it out over the next 11 months.
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