I liked this one: BREAKING: Universe Hastily Attempting To Apologize For Bowie, Rickman, Kilmister; Will "Totally Make It Up To You This Weekend Somehow"
4chan has the right of it, for once: Scalia was clearly one of those hipster liches that pick an abstract concept as their phylactery. In his case, he picked the Constitution.
I believe you misspelled "4chan is as wrong about this as they are about everything else" since Scalia was in *no way* a "defender" of the US constitution, nor is it any more broken now than it was when it was written.
(Well, uh, a ticket and stuff would be nice too, so I suppose I need to let people from USA to handle this. Funny, for some reason "Captain Sternn" segment of Heavy Metal came to mind.)
What's hilarious is that the general consensus - at least as far as I understood it - was that the great fear was that a left-winger would die first. I remember people chiding the left-wing justices for not stepping down under Obama in case a Republican got elected next.
I'm not saying they were wrong! I also wish Obama had nominated far more judges, and that includes e.g. having left-wing Supremes step down once per year.
It's just that the Republicans losing one first is hilarious.
Thomas, Kennedy, Roberts, and Alito could all resign right now in protest and I'd be ecstatic. Breyer and Sotomayor as well? Even happier. Replace the entire bench, for at least 20 years, with identical clones of Ginsburg? OK, sounds like an awesome idea, give a generation of good lawyering to be replaced, slowly, with other (probably lesser) lawyers.
Actuarial tables are still a real thing. And the fact that That Shithead Scalia lost the toss doesn't mean it wasn't likely that one of the others would have.
It was one of Scalia's more famous positions: That, just because you were wrongly convicted and hadn't actually committed any crime, the legal system had no obligation to avoid punishing you. The specific quote I used was from a case where he argued that an inmate on death row couldn't win on appeal just because he was CLEARLY FRAMED. To Scalia, it didn't matter if the inmate actually committed the crime or not.
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Date: 2016-02-13 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-02-13 11:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-14 12:03 am (UTC)"oh man
somebody finally found and smashed Scalia's phylactery"
and
"you can choose to be respectful about the death of a person who worked against me having autonomy over my own body I certainly don't have to"
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Date: 2016-02-14 01:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-14 07:00 pm (UTC)Scalia was clearly one of those hipster liches that pick an abstract concept as their phylactery. In his case, he picked the Constitution.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Date: 2016-02-14 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-02-14 12:37 am (UTC)And a pair of red dancing shoes.
Let's do this.
(Well, uh, a ticket and stuff would be nice too, so I suppose I need to let people from USA to handle this. Funny, for some reason "Captain Sternn" segment of Heavy Metal came to mind.)
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Date: 2016-02-14 03:08 am (UTC)It's just that the Republicans losing one first is hilarious.
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Date: 2016-02-14 03:24 am (UTC)Actuarial tables are still a real thing. And the fact that That Shithead Scalia lost the toss doesn't mean it wasn't likely that one of the others would have.
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