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Inuca (8,436 posts)
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Justice Scalia must resign - E.J Dionne
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-jr-justice-scalia-should-resign/2012/06/27/gJQApkO06V_story.html
So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. He’s turned “judicial restraint†into an oxymoronic phrase. But what he did this week, when the court announced its decision on the Arizona immigration law, should be the end of the line.
Not content with issuing a fiery written dissent, Scalia offered a bench statement questioning President Obama’s decision to allow some immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children to stay. Obama’s move had nothing to do with the case in question. Scalia just wanted you to know where he stood.
I hope this is the start of a more general discussion.
Cosmocat (4,095 posts)
31. It applies in nearly every instance - is this was one of the "liberal" judges
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there would be a VERY LOUD CALL from the right and the MSM to have him impeached.
If any of the left leaning justices pulled ANY of the crape he and the dimwit Thomas pulled they would be totally slammed.
Their delusions know no bounds.
The only reason those on the right would be calling for a resignation if it were a conservative justice that was guilty of some impropriety.
We demand as much from our representatives.
EFerrari (163,678 posts)
39. You shouldn't hold your breath but if we mounted an impeachment campaign
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he would have to deal with it whether we succeeded or not.
Scalia is not accountable to the population. He would ignore any such campaign.
Thanks for the laugh.
progressoid (23,287 posts)
10. We can discuss all we want but it won't make him step down.
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He needs to be impeached and convicted to be removed otherwise he's there till he dies (fingers crossed that happens sooner than later).
Saved for posterity.
lpbk2713 (21,173 posts)
27. I'm all for that.
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Let him at least make room for a Justice who is unbiased.
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sinkingfeeling (24,326 posts)
43. If the Democrats could sweep the election, we might be able to impeach. But
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without Dennis, there might not be anybody with enough gumption to do it.
I heard that he has staked a claim on the vacant lot next to Apollo 11's Lunar Module landing site.
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It ain't happenin' unless Skeletor and her minions get control of the House again, which doesn't look all that likely, so suck on your own massive fail, DUmmies.
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They want him to resign because he didn't rule the way they wanted him to. Wait until tomorrow when they announce that Obamacare is unconstitutional; you will be hearing them all cry for the whole SCOTUS to resign.
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Cosmocat
31. It applies in nearly every instance - is this was one of the "liberal" judges there would be a VERY LOUD CALL from the right and the MSM to have him impeached.
If any of the left leaning justices pulled ANY of the crape he and the dimwit Thomas pulled they would be totally slammed
False.
As conservatives, we are well aware how the "left leaning justices" are going to rule on any given case; that is, they're going to place their ideology ahead of the US Constitution. This is why conservatives have spoken of "activist judges" for decades now and you peons have only recently decided to do the same against those judges who decide cases based upon the law.
But we don't call upon the liberal judges to be impeached. I'm not saying we shouldn't do so, but rather we don't behave in a reactionary, emotional, knee-jerk way like you libs do.
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Quote: "If any of the left leaning justices pulled ANY of the crape he and the dimwit Thomas pulled they would be totally slammed"
I think "pulling crape" is some sort of fashion faux pas, but, impeachment...really?
Oh and.. !!IMPEACH EARL WARREN!!
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False.
As conservatives, we are well aware how the "left leaning justices" are going to rule on any given case; that is, they're going to place their ideology ahead of the US Constitution. This is why conservatives have spoken of "activist judges" for decades now and you peons have only recently decided to do the same against those judges who decide cases based upon the law.
But we don't call upon the liberal judges to be impeached. I'm not saying we shouldn't do so, but rather we don't behave in a reactionary, emotional, knee-jerk way like you libs do.
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The 9th Circuit comes to mind....
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Let him at least make room for a Justice who is unbiased.
Have the two new Obama sisters, Sotomayor and Kagan, ever split on a vote?
Has either of them ever strayed, even once, from the path of the jug-eared Kenyan?
Has Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg ever failed to support the muslim and vote as a bloc with the Obama sisters?
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Psst...hey DUmmies:
Although Dionne seems unaware of the fact, Scalia’s oral bench statement was drawn directly from his dissent. If Dionne has actually read Scalia’s dissent (available beginning at the 30th page of the Court’s set of opinions), he gives no sign of having done so. (He links to, and quotes from, the bench statement.) Had he done so, he would discover (slip op. at 19-21) that Scalia is responding to the government’s argument that the Obama administration’s enforcement priorities ought to be given weight in the preemption analysis.
Further, far from “questioning President Obama’s decision,†Scalia is expressly agnostic on it, as language that Dionne quotes but doesn’t grasp (“The president has said that the new program is ‘the right thing to do’…. Perhaps it is, though Arizona may not think soâ€) shows. Scalia’s point (which, again, Dionne quotes but doesn’t grasp) is that what matters is whether Arizona’s law conflicts with federal immigration law, not whether it conflicts with the Obama administration’s enforcement priorities. There may well be reasonable grounds for contesting this legal proposition, but Dionne’s contention that Scalia was being “blatantly political†in making it is woefully ill-informed.
http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/304185/ej-dionne-s-anti-scalia-tirade-ed-whelan
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False.
As conservatives, we are well aware how the "left leaning justices" are going to rule on any given case; that is, they're going to place their ideology ahead of the US Constitution. This is why conservatives have spoken of "activist judges" for decades now and you peons have only recently decided to do the same against those judges who decide cases based upon the law.
But we don't call upon the liberal judges to be impeached. I'm not saying we shouldn't do so, but rather we don't behave in a reactionary, emotional, knee-jerk way like you libs do.
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This.