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Antonin Scalia, a sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice, has died:
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia - one of most conservative members of the high court - has died. Justice Scalia's death could shift the balance of power on the US high court, allowing President Barack Obama to add a fifth liberal justice to the court. The court's conservative majority has recently stalled major efforts by the Obama administration on climate change and immigration.
Justice Scalia, 79, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. He died in his sleep early on Saturday while in West Texas for [a] hunting trip, the US Marshall service said. Justice Scalia was one of the most prominent proponents of "originalism" - a conservative legal philosophy that believes the US Constitution has a fixed meaning and does not change with the times.
Justice Scalia's death is, unsurprisingly, now being widely reported.
From the San Antonio Express News:
According to a report, Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did not appear for breakfast, a person associated with the ranch went to his room and found a body.
[...] The U.S. Marshal Service, the Presidio County sheriff and the FBI were involved in the investigation. Officials with the law enforcement agencies declined to comment.
A federal official who asked not to be named said there was no evidence of foul play and it appeared that Scalia died of natural causes.
A gray Cadillac hearse pulled into the ranch last Saturday afternoon. The hearse came from Alpine Memorial Funeral Home.
Most major news outlets are covering this story, including CNN [video autoplays], The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NBC.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 14 2016, @03:04AM
No. Stop. Some people deserve no respect whatsoever, not after they do things like this. Scalia was the textbook case of Lawful Evil alignment given entirely too much political power. He's an object lesson for our generation on why INT without WIS is not enough to make for a good figure of authority and civil power.
"Butbutbut he was one of the finest legal minds of a generation!" Horseshit. That is not a compliment, not when you really think about it. The guy oiled and slithered his way around the plain meaning of words to enforce his agenda, while claiming at the top of his lungs to be doing the opposite. No one with three sparking neurons to rub together was fooled by that...unfortunately this seems to exclude a good half the adult population of the United States :/
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. He's set us back by decades, not least with this Citizens United crap. And I won't ever forgive him for his ruling that essentially boiled down to "innocence is no protection from judicial punishment." That's "my rulings, right or wrong." That kind of blind, bullheaded narcissism is deadly to any democratic system of government. Authoritarian to the core, this one.
tl;dr: Good riddance to bad rubbish and may he rot.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Sunday February 14 2016, @01:01PM
Hear! Hear!
Well said, and I hereby nominate you to deliver his eulogy.