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Better hope Hillary and Bernie don't win. Republicans postpone a nomination until after the election and one of them toss up Obama as their pic...

 

Bernie beat Rand Paul & kicked Rick Santorum's as well as Huckabee's ass in the New Hampshire  REPUBLICAN primary.

 

 

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George Will: "Students of the court understand that, given Harry Reid's demonstrated disdain for Senate rules, if Republicans had not won Senate control in the 2014 elections, he as majority leader would very likely now extend the institutional vandalism he committed in 2013. Then he changed Senate rules, by a simple majority vote and in the middle of a session, to prevent filibusters of judicial nominees other than Supreme Court nominees. This enabled Obama to pack the nation's second-most important court, that of the U.S. Circuit for the District of Columbia. Were Reid still majority leader, the Senate's only rule would be the whim of the majority of the moment, and his caucus would promptly proscribe filibusters of Supreme Court nominees. One consequence would be this: America today is one Supreme Court vote away from a radical truncation of the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech. A Democratic president in 2017 will nominate to replace Scalia someone pledged to construe the amendment as permitting Congress to regulate political campaign speech, which would put First Amendment jurisprudence on a slippery slope to regarding all speech as eligible for regulation by the administrative state. Scalia lived 27 years after the person who nominated him left office, thereby extending the reach of Ronald Reagan's presidency and reminding voters of the long-lasting ripples that radiate from their presidential choices. A teacher, wrote Henry Adams, attains a kind of immortality because one never knows where a teacher's influence ends. Scalia, always a teacher, will live on in the law and in the lives of unnumbered generations who will write, teach and construe it."

 

 

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Scalia's last warning to the American public may become his most insightful and prophetic one.

 

I write sepa­rately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.

“The substance of today’s decree is not of immense per­sonal importance to me. The law can recognize as mar­riage whatever sexual attachments and living arrange­ments it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance.

Those civil consequences—and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences—can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about mar­riage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Consti­tution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected commit­tee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extrav­agant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most im­portant liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”

I would say Scalia was absolutely right on the money.

SCOTUS has become far too powerful, often times usurping legislative powers from Congress and trampling all over the liberties and freedoms we hold dear without a second thought.

If conservatives don’t gain control in the Court and work toward putting its powers back within constitutional limits, we’re going to see our freedom eroding at an ever quickening pace.

Hopefully, we the people will heed Scalia’s warning before its too late.

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