Democrats are strident about ensuring confirmation of any candidate that Barack Hussein Obama nominates for justice, as a replacement for Antonin Scalia. Hillary Clinton is saying “the Republicans in the Senate and on the campaign trail who are calling for Justice Scalia’s seat to remain vacant dishonor our Constitution. The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons.”
In other words: hurry up and fill the position with a Leftist in order to skew SCOTUS to the left for decades to come.
Isn’t it odd, then, that Chuck Schumer absolutely insisted that “we should not confirm any Bush nominee except in extraordinary circumstances” in 2007?
Pot and kettle? Rammpant Leftist hypocrisy anyone?
It’s no surprise for those Americans who are paying attention that the death of 79-year-old Justice Antonin Scalia, placed in something of a vacuum, creates a massive series of issues for not just the Supreme Court of the United States, but for the entire political tent in DC and the societal atmosphere of the United States.
That is to say, this is a huge political issue insofar as Demorats want to make as Left a nomination as possible, and Republicans seem to generally want the next president to make the nomination.
In a way these wants are immaterial insofar as Mr Obama has the lawful authority to make what is termed a “recess appointment” as the US Senate, which customarily approves presidential nominations for SCOTUS, is in recess and not slated to return until February 22nd, a week from today.
A recess appointment allows a sitting president to temporarily fill a court vacancy. ScotusBlog writes:
The presidential authority at issue in this possible scenario exists, according to Article II, when the Senate has gone into recess and the vacancy a president seeks to fill remains. Such an appointment requires no action at all by the Senate, but the appointee can only serve until the end of the following Senate session. The president (if still in office) can then try again during a new Senate session, by making a new nomination, and that must be reviewed by the Senate.
The bottom line is that, if President Obama is to successfully name a new Supreme Court Justice, he will have to run the gauntlet of the Republican-controlled Senate, and prevail there. The only real chance of that: if he picks a nominee so universally admired that it would be too embarrassing for the Senate not to respond.
The entire nature of the US Supreme Court is on the cusp of a major upheaval which could change the complexion and the bent of the court for at least an entire generation. Both Demorats and Republicans realize the deadly-serious nature of the situation because, up to this point, a large number of critical cases heard by SCOTUS have hinged, literally, on the vote of one sole justice to the tune of 5-to-4. Cases of huge societal import are about to be heard, to include the first major abortion case in a decade, affirmative action, immigration and voting rights.
Clearly, cases of paramount concern.
Of sufficient concern to kill a sitting justice?
Isn’t that just tinfoil-hat-wearing, Conspiracy Theory, full-tilt Moonbat Thinking? To even write about it here?
I was on Twitter last night and corresponded back and forth with war correspondent Patrick Dollard (@PatDollard, whom I follow and follows me back), who made me aware of the fact that Justice Scalia is to be buried with no autopsy. He questioned the wisdom of this. He pointed out to me that the owner of Cibola Creek Ranch, where Justice Scalia had passed away, is John Poindexter and a Democrat donor who had been honored by Mr Obama at the White House. Dollard also had questions:
Interesting questions, which became more interesting when I was pointed to an article from a local SanAntonio.com Texas website — not InfoWars and not ConspiracyZone.
Eventually, Poindexter entered the silent room, apprehensive.
“I was worried I was going to find something very tragic,” he said.
He spotted Scalia, still in his pajamas.
“He was in perfect repose in his bed as if he was taking a nap. His face wasn’t contorted or anything,” Poindexter said. “I went over and felt his hand and it was very cold, no pulse. You could see he was not alive.”
Then this:
Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara told WFAA Dallas that she pronounced Scalia dead due to a heart attack, but Lujan said he had not seen a death certificate reflecting that. Guevara did not immediately return calls Sunday.
The judge had not physically seen the body of Scalia. CBSNews.com writes:
Chris Lujan, a manager for Sunset Funeral Homes, said about 20 law enforcement officers arrived early Sunday morning at the funeral home. The procession traveled more than three hours from the West Texas resort ranch where Scalia, 79, was found dead in his room Saturday morning.
Lujan says Scalia’s body was taken from the facility late Sunday afternoon. Lujan says it was to be taken to Virginia, but he didn’t know exactly where.
Lujan says an autopsy was not performed.
He says Scalia’s family didn’t think a private autopsy was necessary and requested his remains be flown home as soon as possible.
The county official who declared Scalia dead Saturday did not order an autopsy after finding he had died of natural causes. She said investigators told her there were no signs of foul play.
The Washington Post wrote:
It then took hours for authorities in remote West Texas to find a justice of the peace, officials said Sunday. When they did, she pronounced Scalia dead of natural causes without seeing the body and decided not to order an autopsy. A second justice of the peace, who was called but couldn’t get to Scalia’s body in time, said she would have ordered an autopsy.
As late as Sunday afternoon, there were conflicting reports about whether an autopsy would be performed, though officials later said Scalia’s body was being embalmed and there would be no autopsy. One report, by WFAA-TV in Dallas, said the death certificate would show the cause of the death was a heart attack.
On its face, at least in California, it isn’t out of the ordinary for the surviving family members to not call for an autopsy on a loved one — and the county coroner will generally agree — if the fact patterns are such that the loved one was under the care of a personal physician for a specific set of medical issues and there is good causal linkage made between the treated medical issues and circumstances of the death of the individual. The family must agree and the physician must agree, with concurrence of the coroner and involved coroner’s investigator, for the dismissal of an autopsy. In other words, was the death unforeseen?
Also interesting from, again, the Washington Post:
“It wasn’t a heart attack,” Guevara said. “He died of natural causes.”
Not a heart attack? How do you know? What was responsible? Oh, that’s right, we won’t know, there won’t be an autopsy. “The family did not believe an autopsy was necessary.”
When Poindexter tried to awaken Scalia about 8:30 the next morning, the judge’s door was locked and he did not answer. Three hours later, Poindexter returned after an outing, with a friend of Scalia who had come from Washington with him.
“We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled,” said Poindexter.
My personal first thought: petechiae?
Why was that sentence left out of other articles?
Of additional interest is the fact that Scalia had apparently declined the presence of US Marshals (as bodyguards) while present at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas. That fact would not have been a secret to all.
John Poindexter, owner of the property, found the body of Anonin Scalia.
Patrick Dollard logically asked:
Frankly, with events as volatile as they are in DC, and in consideration of the constant 5-to-4 decisions from SCOTUS — with major cases soon on the horizon — my buzzing wheelhouse cannot but think of a man named William Colby.
And this: embalming fluids contain formaldehyde, various solvents and methanol. All of those chemicals act as inhibitors and will interfere with any tox screen.
At this point, all that is know about the passing of Justice Scalia is that he died during a hunting trip in west Texas.
Leftists couldn’t be happier. I haven’t checked the various Leftist blogs and sites but I’m certain they are replete with obscenities and glee about Scalia’s passing.
Scalia was a non-politically correct individual who was responsible for the Heller decision. He was also a “textualist,” meaning that he believed what the Constitution said according to the words as written, and left little for interpretation according to fluctuating surrounding societal times. Since he couldn’t argue in front of the justices himself, he would use the questions he asked of presenting attorneys as his arguments to the rest of the bench.
A court is now left that is essentially split four to four, almost literally. There will be no “Kennedy as tie-breaker.”
This is going to be a massive issue in DC, as SCOTUS was on the cusp of addressing the first major abortion case in a decade, affirmative action, immigration and voting rights — important buzz issues on both sides.
Leftists are going to demand an immediate appointment. Republicans are going to want to wait until after the election so that Americans can have more of a say.
Barack Hussein Obama attempting to appoint a successor is therefore going to be a huge issue in DC. He and the Demorats will attempt to locate and nominate as much of a black transgendered dwarf university professor who teaches “America’s Racist, Sexist and Capitalist Past” as possible. Obama has already appointed the last two justices, Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 and Elena Kagan in 2010.
The difference today is that the GOP is in charge of the Senate.
How “in charge”?
We are about to find out.
UPDATE: WHAT HAPPENS IN A FOUR-to-FOUR TIE?
Essentially, nothing. History proves, according to the National Review, that the ruling of the lower court will stand. The 9th Circuit holding sway? That’s not quite encouraging. The Washington Post indicates that, no matter what, things won’t generally be going well for Conservatives, as lower courts are already stacked with Leftist appointments.
This is where the stiff spine of a GOP-controlled Senate will, frankly, mean everything.
And it couldn’t have happened to a more traitorous man. Or quickly enough.
The only thing worse than having to hear Obama’s voice, literally, EVERY day for the past seven years would be to hear Hillary’s piercing voice every day. That is not, at this point, an impossible future.
Will Obama mention his traitorous Iranian deal? Will he mention the Iranian missiles fired close to our newest aircraft carrier? Will he mention the ten sailors captured by Iran? As Charles Krauthammer said, Obama has already been serially humiliated by Iran.
Obama canceled sanctions for the missile launches. Obama is kind to our enemies and brutal to our allies.
How long will the speech go? How many times will he say “I” instead of we?
That wasn’t a movie, a TV show or a bad SNL skit. That’s classroom reality.
“Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.” Wall Street helped; but the givernment demanded that banks loan to people who couldn’t afford houses.
“Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You’ll be pretty lonely, because you’ll be debating our military, most of America’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it.”
Again, more lies. More embracement of The Religious Left — those who so desperately want to believe in Global Warming. It is a religion that demands faith and, like islam, brooks no dissenters.
“No nation dares to attack us or our allies because they know that’s the path to ruin.”
All of the highest-ranking military professionals in the room appeared as though they had had a steaming dog turd stuffed in their mouths when Obama said that. I watched.
“Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office.”
Another massive and total lie.
Even the Demorats in the audience who stood to clap did so with tepid vigor and passive and disinterested faces.
THE BIGGEST LIE OF THE EVENING:
“We don’t need to build them (ISIL) up to show that we’re serious, nor do we need to push away vital allies in this fight by echoing the lie that ISIL is representative of one of the world’s largest religions.”
THE BIGGEST OMISSION OF THE EVENING:
NOT ONE WORD about US debt and the massive deficits, CONTINUED and EXPANDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING that he and Demorats and Leftists demand.
“The future we want – opportunity and security for our families; a rising standard of living and a sustainable, peaceful planet for our kids – all that is within our reach. But it will only happen if we work together. It will only happen if we can have rational, constructive debates.”
And those debates, those discussions, are just what you and the Demorats and your fellow Leftists won’t brook in your cabinet meetings, in the public, on the internet, in books and magazines, on television and, mostly now, in our schools and universities.
“As frustration grows, there will be voices urging us to fall back into tribes, to scapegoat fellow citizens who don’t look like us, or pray like us, or vote like we do, or share the same background.”
How odd that you mention that in your very last state of the union speech, because you have been the greatest Divider In Chief.
Obama simultaneously disarms American citizens and arms Iran with the largest, most powerful and deadliest weapons systems on the planet. Mr Obama disarms our citizens, removes equipment from our police forces — who are our First Responders to terrorist and critical incidents, not any single faction of the federal government, in any form. Not the FBI, not the US Marshals, not FEMA. Not any federal agency. Your local law enforcement only.
He also ensures that our law enforcement agencies are diminished, demagogued, belittled.
Obama was the greatestDivider In Chief. He will be proven as the least effective president in recent history, even worse than that of James Earl Carter.
His power depended precisely upon division, the diminishment of American power, greater regulatory and governmental power and money, with the
Just as with his entire administration and tenure, Obama’s final state of the union speech was entirely disconnected from reality. He continues to be physically and mentally separated from the true reality in America and continues his denial of the way the country and the world operates. His speech was disjointed and riddled with major droppings of his ego, arrogance and dismissal of those who would oppose him or his policies in any fashion. He sets aside reality that is inconvenient to him.
Not one word about American hostages in Iran. Not one word about the Iran sanctions or Monday’s ten hostage sailors. He lectures us about civility but not one reference to the fact that Obama is almost singlehandedly responsible for the chaos in Syria via ISIS, his “J.V. team” and that, by extension, Obama will be responsible for the Islamization and decline of the bulk of Europe.
Obama chose to ignore the area where a president can have the most ready influence: foreign policy. He chose to dictate the area foundationally covered by and under the aegis of Congress: domestic policy.
The speech, like Mr Obama, was sophomoric, belittling and pedantic. And not based in any way upon reality.
“This was less about a state of the union than it was a state of denial.” — Ted Cruz
Secret US Policy Blocks Agents From Looking at Social Media of Visa Applicants, Former Official Says
by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, James Gordon Meek & Josh Margolin
Fearing a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations” for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.
“During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.
Four dead in Benghazi. Fourteen dead in San Bernardino. And that policy is SECRET. I wonder why that might be?
And Obama along with his Leftist Cabal couldn’t care less. Anyone (except them) can readily be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
There is NO Constitutional RIGHT to a visa of ANY KIND in the US.
Looking at the social media on Tashfeen Malik, I submit, may in fact have saved FOURTEEN people from being killed in San Bernardino. All it would have taken are a few clicks into Google and entering brief information into some fields.
REVEALED: San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik openly supported violent jihad on social media yet still passed THREE background checks to gain entry into America
by Evan Bleier
Malik said she supported violent jihad and that she desired to take part in it
If officials found Malik’s messages, her visa likely would have been denied
Screened by Homeland Security and State Department after entering US
Three national security and criminal background checks didn’t find posts
Malik and husband Syed Farook killed 14 people earlier this month after passing through customs in July 2014 and getting married the next month
This is not just a shame — considering the deaths of fourteen American citizens and twenty-two persons seriously injured — it is plotted and purposeful incompetence. Information indicates that K1 visa applicants were not checked via social media. It is not just abominable absurdity and purposeful incompetence. It is from a Jeh Johnson memo. It is the POLICY of the United States — because of a politically correct narrative embraced and promoted by Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama once AGAIN, as well as his administration — and Jeh Johnson — has AMERICANBLOOD on his HANDS.
NOT to check social media was POLICY.
Obama lies to Americans.
Americans DIE behind Mr Obama’s political correctness because he doesn’t wish to disturb, offend or inconvenience Muslim applicants.
ISIS USES SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RECRUITMENT.
Yet the US fails to — per its policy — and must NOT check social media to “vet” K1 visa applicants.
State Department records show that in 2014 the U.S. government issued nearly 10 million nonimmigrant visas, over 40,000 of which were K-1 fiancé visas like the one Malik used to enter the country.
And yet we think that Obama and this government has the slightest ability to “vet Syrians”? Much less the actual inclination?
It’s not too terribly far from calls for torches and pitchforks, ladies and gentlemen.
Because, trust me, more Americans can, must and will die due to Obama’s treasonous mission to diminish the power and position of the United States in the world. Obama wills it. Obamahu Akbar.
It’s no surprise for those Americans who are paying attention that the 
Justice Scalia had passed away, is John Poindexter and a Democrat donor who had been honored by Mr Obama at the White House. Dollard also had questions:
Interesting questions, which became more interesting when I was pointed to an article from a local 
Then this:
Frankly, with events as volatile as they are in DC, and in consideration of the constant 5-to-4 decisions from SCOTUS — with major cases soon on the horizon — my buzzing wheelhouse cannot but think of a man named William Colby.
At this point, all that is know about the 
And it couldn’t have happened to a more traitorous man. Or quickly enough.
“Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office.”
Not one word about American hostages in Iran. Not one word about the Iran sanctions or Monday’s ten hostage sailors. He lectures us about civility but not one reference to the fact that Obama is almost singlehandedly responsible for the chaos in Syria via ISIS, his “J.V. team” and that, by extension, Obama will be responsible for the Islamization and decline of the bulk of Europe.
