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WTF: Arizona lawyer says Scalia can vote from the grave to keep Supreme Court conservative
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Trajan
(19,089 posts)And bring George Washington back to give his opinion on the conservative jurists sitting on the Supreme Court ...
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)Lodestar
(2,388 posts)She speaks to the dead.
Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)love it ...
erlewyne
(1,115 posts)The 1969 astronauts recorded it.
Music behind the moon.
Scalia is immortal!
Cyrano
(15,027 posts)"brain" dead Republicans have been voting for years, but I don't know if that counts.
Saviolo
(3,280 posts)That link goes to an article about Trump punching someone!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,965 posts)Archae
(46,301 posts)This right-wing clown too.
Heritage Fellow: Scalia's Vote Should Still Count From Beyond The Grave
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Tuesday, 2/23/2016 10:28 am
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official, said last week that the Supreme Court should count the late Justice Antonin Scalias votes on pending cases in which the justices have already cast preliminary votes. Von Spakovsky mentioned in particular Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case that would deal a blow to unions and in which Scalia was likely on the anti-union side. In an interview with American Family Radios Sandy Rios on February 15, von Spakovsky said that Chief Justice John Roberts has an absolute obligation to count Scalias vote in Friedrichs and other cases in which justices have already held conferences. After oral arguments before the court, the justices leave the courtroom and they go to a conference room in the Supreme Court building and they take a vote, he said. So thats the point at which they know how a case is going to be decided and the chief justice then makes assignments of who will write the majority opinion and etc. I think the chief justice has an absolute obligation to give credit to Scalias vote in those cases that have already been decided, even if he didnt write his opinion yet, because they know how he would have voted. So on particular cases like the Friedrichs case
that case was argued on January 11, so they know how Justice Scalia cast his vote in that case and I think the chief justice should give credit to it, he said. Von Spakovsky is correct that justices cast votes in a private conference after hearing cases
but those votes sometimes change as the justices work on their opinions. Shortly after Scalias death, veteran Supreme Court attorney Roy Englert told ABC that the vote of a deceased justices does not count. We cant help but point out the irony that von Spakovsky has been one of the primary drivers of the myth that massive voter fraud requires suppressive laws that make it harder to vote. One of the voter-fraud specters he has raised is that of people casting votes on behalf of people who have died.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/heritage-fellow-scalias-vote-should-still-count-beyond-grave#sthash.rLRwW8zW.dpuf
lark
(23,065 posts)This really points out the sheer hypocrisy of Repugs. They don't give a shit about the rules, just want to aggregate more power for themselves and will use any method, whether legal, moral or not makes no difference, to keep themselves in power. Also totally illustrates the total canard of them fighting vote fraud. They push voter fraud when it's for them (hacked machines, no review of ballots) but strongly push for laws in the name of voter fraud when the whole purpose is to ensure that large amounts of Democrats can't vote.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... that conservatism is a virulent mental disease that rivals ebola and the bubonic plague in the mortality rate of reason and truth.
underpants
(182,631 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Just as soon as we get to apply Thurgood Marshall's opinions (or Earl Warren's or William Brennan's...take your pick GOP fool....after all, we "know" their opinions too, amirite???) and vote on the issue like Affirmative Action, Voter Rights and Union protections. I am quite sure that if there were an afterlife, those two would be having a spirited (bad pun...totally intended!) debate over the same!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Bring back Earl Warren--that was my initial thought.
eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)I have now been "reverse Onioned" for the first time.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Will the seance be held on Super Tuesday?
Bozvotros
(782 posts)And raise you a Thurgood Marshall.
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Wow. Just wow.
erlewyne
(1,115 posts)EarlG ... that is a keeper!!!
The founding fathers response ... super!!!
Tony's going to get you if you don't watch out.
3catwoman3
(23,950 posts)...of times, with his lousy decisions.
lark
(23,065 posts)Don't you just love (hate) how twisted Repugs are, the twisted pretzel logic would be funny if it wasn't so damn wrong. So, in order to prevent even one person voting who shouldn't, we must stop millions from being able to vote because of a lack of money and documents. However, a repug ghost is allowed to decide the policy of our nation, just because they like his ultra-partisan rulings? NOT!!!
How crazy can they get - the logic keeps decreasing on a daily basis.
tclambert
(11,084 posts)on just about everything. "Sorry, Tony, too late. Hit the down button, willya Pete?"
Initech
(100,042 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)vote from the grave as well?
47of74
(18,470 posts)Bill USA
(6,436 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Probably figure why not and probably figure that since after all there is a church precedent about putting dead people on trial so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have one as a judge;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
MADem
(135,425 posts)Bernblu
(441 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)Sounds about par for the course in their world.
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)More backwards republicanism
ScottLand
(2,485 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Do these people even hear themselves?
They expect us to think this is a sound argument? They expect us to think that THEY really think this is a sound argument???
The contempt for the American Citizen is mind boggling.
Lodestar
(2,388 posts)it becomes reality. Consensus nonsenses.
63splitwindow
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ck4829
(35,039 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)looks like a real goofball, doesn't he?
K&R
Lodestar
(2,388 posts)stonecutter357
(12,694 posts)The Wizard
(12,536 posts)Right there after Article ................. Never mind.
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