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Cruz Goes Even More Crazy

February 15, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 391 Views 0 Comments Antonin Scalia, Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, Ted Cruz

It’s no surprise that Ted Cruz wants an ultra-conservative justice to replaced Antonin Scalia. What is surprising is how much he’s willing to lie about the consequences if that doesn’t happen. (But then again, he’s been lying for Jesus for quite a while now.) On Meet the Press Sunday, Cruz told host Chuck Todd that a liberal justice would mean the end of religious liberty — adding that religious symbols would be “sandblasted off of the tombstones of our fallen veterans”:

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Scalia: Not As Originalist As He’d Like to Think

February 15, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 531 Views 1 Comment Antonin Scalia, Constitution, Dick Cheney, Originalism, supreme court, Ted Cruz

So, by now everyone knows that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died over the weekend. As is usual, everyone is rushing to the airwaves to talk about what a nice and brilliant person he was. Of course I don’t know him personally, but certainly his public personae were not so nice, and I don’t think his legal reasoning, considered by many to be smart and original (pun intended), was all that brilliant. It was merely partisan and theocratic. Scalia was not really interested in the original intent of the framers. He was interested in creating a facade of intellectualism around his rulings. His genius was not in a new form of thought around the Constitution, but in a way to package his rulings so that people thought they had a grand origin.

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An Open Letter to Conservative SCOTUS Justices

May 5, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 331 Views 0 Comments Antonin Scalia, john roberts, marriage equality, SCOTUS, supreme court

Yes, this is a bit behind, but I had to make comments about some of the discussion points put forward

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No Delay for DeLay

August 7, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 191 Views Antonin Scalia, Tom DeLay

As you know, the Fifth Circuit Court ruled that Tom DeLay had to stay on the Texas Congressional Ballot for the Republican party. The Republicans were asking Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to intervine and stay the ruling.

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Supreme Court Justice Scalia Flips Finger in Church

March 27, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 151 Views Antonin Scalia, Church, Obscene Gesture, supreme court

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics. There is a photo.