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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: 2) by Non Sequor on Sunday February 14 2016, @06:09AM
The Samaritans were, and still are, a group that follows an alternate version of the Torah. It has slightly different 10 commandments and the site of the high holy place is Mt. Gerizim rather than the temple in Jerusalem. They claimed to have been left behind during the Babylonian captivity and that the Jewish people who returned were following a corrupted version of the scriptures. Mainstream Judaism said that these were pretenders to their heritage.
The hatred between these groups was deep since they both claimed to be following the true version of a single scripture. Not long before Jesus' time, there was an incident where Samaritan's defiled the temple in Jerusalem with human bones.
So you have to ask yourself, what kind of resolution to irreconcilable differences do you believe in? Is it an imperative that the more righteous group win out, by crushing or suppressing their enemy? Or are both groups neighbors to each other? Is it more important to be right or merciful? What kind of world do you choose to believe you live in?
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.