Constitutional giant Antonin Scalia has passed away this week, and while many immediately turned toward the prospects of his replacements, less interest has been placed on the great influence that we have lost.
As the court’s most devout defender of the constitution, Antonin’s passing may very well mark the passing of the Constitution’s role as the central document through which each decision must be weighed.
With Scalia’s death, the court has been turned over its now-liberal majority, and their belief that the constitution contains what they think it ought to contain, rather than what it actually says.
Scalia often proved this point with the cutting style for which he was well known. When confronted by people who morally oppose the judge’s decisions, Scalia would respond in a way that made clear the distinctions of want and constitutional need, “I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” he once said. He never did, however, make sexual orgies a legal requirement.
In his Obergefell v. Hodges dissent, he accused the liberal judges that made up the majority of not respecting that distinction, claiming their position lacked even the “thin veneer of law.”
The loss of Antonin Scalia further explains the tragic loss for constitutionalists across the country. Move on to the next page:
Do NOT let the LIB-TARDS play their silly games, it took 15years to write the “BILL OF RIGHTS” …do you really think the REAL citizens of this country will let the Constitution DIE ???
Obama is behind it
Why???
No. He just took with him the last chance for peaceful resolution
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“Taught Constitutional Law for 12 Years”
He was a Guest Lecturer. A Teacher’s Assistant at most.
As for “magna$#%&!@*laude “…
“When mentioning Obama’s stint as editor of the law review fails to impress, Obama’s friends point to his Latin honors. Obama graduated magna$#%&!@*laude. But a little digging reveals that Obama’s magna$#%&!@*laude wouldn’t actually be magna$#%&!@*laude today. The system produced classes where only one-third of the class did not receive honors. For the class of ’95, a whopping 71.3 percent of the student body graduated with honors, doubling the number of students graduating with honors since 1972 and tripling the numbers receiving magna$#%&!@*laude. While receiving magna$#%&!@*laude is impressive, it’s a lot less impressive if one in six students win it.
That’s why the Harvard Law faculty voted overwhelmingly to make it harder to graduate with honors. In effect, the policy cut the numbers of students graduating with honors in half. Under the old system, all students had to do was reach a GPA cutoff. Given the stiff competition, professors felt pressure to inflate the grades of their favorite students. Under the new system, only the top ten percent of students received magna$#%&!@*laude. (Victoria Kuohung, “Class of ’99 May Find Honors Harder to Earn,” Harvard Law Record, February 16, 1996).
Would Obama have made the cut? We don’t know. Instead, we know what Romney’s high school grades were.
And this from the Boston Globe. You’d think that the Globe, based in Boston, would be more interested in Obama’s grades from Harvard Law School, which is nearby in Cambridge, than it is in Romney’s high school grades in Michigan, but the Globe gave up any pretensions of honest reporting long ago. ”
We all know Romney’s GPA…
We don’t know Obama’s….
Weird how that works…
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BTW
Timmy… We are talking about the death of The Honorable Judge Scalia… You were the First to bring up “Anything But”… Deflection at it’s best.
“In this hand we have a conversation about The Honorable Judge Scalia and the Constitution… Nothing up my sleeve… Presto… Now the Conversation is about anything I want and Demand…”
Slight of hand magic is the Liberal way….
Prove me Right, please do.
This Conversation is about The Honorable Judge Scalia’s passing and Matt’s discussion of “The Constitution isn’t going anywhere”.
Unfortunately, it may be the case…….he was the ONE and ONLY one who believed in the constitution the way it was written, and NOT to be adapted at will.
It’s been gone. It was gone the day the “Patriot act” was signed.
Watch obamanation put up a MUSLIM for the next judge and Congress will let him!!!
future war here ,,,,see the third jihad ,, 2016 ,,and read power grab .