Savage - "Was Scalia Murdered?"...
Feb 16, 2016 16:00:26 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
SUDDEN DEATH
MICHAEL SAVAGE: 'WAS SCALIA MURDERED?'
Talk-radio giant calls for 'Warren Commission': 'This is serious business'
World Net Daily - Feb 16, 2016
With confirmation that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday morning with a pillow over his head and his clothes unwrinkled, nationally syndicated talk-radio host Michael Savage called for an investigation on the level of the presidentially appointed probe into President John F. Kennedys assassination in 1963.
Was [Scalia] murdered? Savage asked his listeners.
We need a Warren Commission-like federal investigation, he said. This is serious business.
Savage said an immediate autopsy of the body is needed.
There was no medical examiner present. There was no one who declared the death who was there. It was done by telephone from a U.S. Marshal appointed by Obama himself, he said.
In an essay posted on his website, Savage asked what would happen if Donald Trump were in the White House in his final year and the justice was Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Do you think the left would be screaming that Donald Trump would have no right to appoint anyone to the Supreme Court? Do you think they would be demanding an autopsy and a full federal investigation?
In an interview Monday with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, Savage discussed the implications of Scalia's death.
"We had a razor-thin savior of the conservative, or, shall I say traditional, ways in America, Antonin Scalia, who was found dead under suspicious circumstances," he said. "And now this character in the White House who nobody with a rational mind should trust is trying to railroad Loretta Lynch down our throats ... as his number one choice. Can you believe this?"
Savage said somebody must stop Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court so the choice can be made by the new president.
"And I hope it's you," Savage told Trump.
Savage noted Scalia's role in the Supreme Court's Feb. 9 decision that temporarily blocks Obama administration rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
"Donald, you know that just five, six days before Scalia was found dead with a pillow over his face, he was the lead voice against Obama's attempts to railroad that green gangsterism down our throats, he knocked it out? He was the one who did it."
The 79-year-old Scalia had been on a hunting trip at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Presidio County, Texas.
Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who pronounced Scalia dead, said the death certificate will say the cause of death was natural and that he suffered a heart attack.
She said she decided not to order an autopsy after Sheriff Danny Dominguez concluded there were no signs of foul play, reported WFAA News in Dallas. The Scalia family concurred.
As part of my investigation, one of the things I did ask the sheriff and the U.S. Marshal: Were there any signs of foul play? And they said, 'Absolutely not.' At that time, I still wanted to be careful, and asked them if [Scalia's] physician would call me, Guevara said.
Guevara said she talked to Scalia's doctor in Washington, D.C., who told her Scalia had been sick and had visited his office Wednesday and Thursday before going on the hunting trip Friday.
According to Guevara, Scalia told his group Friday at dinner he was not feeling well and went to his room early. He then missed breakfast and lunch Saturday and was found unresponsive in his bed.
The owner of the Texas ranch and resort said Scalia died peacefully.
The judge, when I found him Saturday morning, was in complete repose, John Poindexter, the owner of Cibolo Creek Ranch in Marfa, Texas, told NBC News. He was very peaceful in his in the bed. He had obviously passed away with no difficulty at all in the middle of the night.
Scalia, who was appointed to the high court by former President Ronald Reagan, was the longest-serving justice on the court, having taken his seat on Sept. 26, 1986.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/michael-savage-was-scalia-murdered/#7QRfYI8zoMv9Rpdo.99
CHANGING OF THE GUARD
LEAVE THE SCALIA CHAIR VACANT
Pat Buchanan Recalls '68 Fight When GOP Senators Held Up Appointment -- As The Minority
World Net Daily - Feb 16, 2016
It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in an unseemly quarrel over who would succeed him.
But no one can replace Justice Scalia.
He was a giant among jurists. For a third of a century, he led the conservative wing of the high court, creating a new school of judicial thought called originalism.
But originalism is not conservatism, which, in the judicial era that preceded Scalia, often meant court decisions that conserved the radical social revolution Earl Warrens court had imposed upon us.
Scalia believed in going back to the founding documents of the republic and discerning from them the original meaning and intent of the framers.
He would look at the purpose of the authors of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and post-Civil War amendments, and conclude that it was an absurdity to discover there, or read into them, a constitutional right to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same sex.
The words Scalia used to ridicule such nonsense did as much to discredit majority opinions as did his dissenting votes.
I remember being called into the office of White House Chief of Staff Don Regan, 30 years ago, to be informed that the judge whom Ronald Reagan would name to replace William Rehnquist, who had been named chief justice, would be U.S. Appellate Court Judge Antonin Scalia.
Regan was grinning at me as he made the announcement, and I let out a whoop of victory. Since Nixons days, some of us had argued for naming an Italian Catholic to the high court. Yet, all six of Nixons nominees, and the only nominee of Gerald Ford, were WASPs.
Scalias death removes the courts most brilliant mind and most colorful member. Personable, witty, acerbic, a fine writer, he used his opinions, mostly dissents, not only to make his case but to skewer the majority opinion.
And while Sen. Mitch McConnell may be faulted for not waiting a decent interval after Scalias death to declare that the Senate will not confirm any Obama nominee to succeed Scalia, the majority leaders position is exactly the right one for the party.
Some of us in the Nixon campaign of 1968 still recall how Chief Justice Earl Warren, fearing his old antagonist Richard Nixon might be elected, offered his resignation to LBJ in June of 1968, but contingent on Senate confirmation of a successor. The fix was in.
Johnson nominated Justice Abe Fortas, a crony, to succeed Warren and Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, another crony, to fill the Fortas seat. Nixon, urged by his old friend William Rogers, Ikes attorney general, stayed out of the battle. Some of us did not.
Senate Republicans, led by Bob Griffin of Michigan and including John Tower, Howard Baker and Strom Thurmond, held up the vote on Fortas until they had enough support to sustain a filibuster and run out the clock. In October, Fortas threw in the towel.
The following spring, President Nixon named U.S. Appellate Court Judge Warren Burger to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice.
The GOP Senate majority should follow the example of that gutsy Senate Republican minority of half a century ago. The window for any Supreme Court nominees should be slammed shut until 2017.
Republicans should tell our transformative president that his days of transforming America are over, that he will not be remaking the court into a bastion of the left after his departure, and that, while he has the right to nominate whom he wishes, the U.S. Senate will exercise its right to reject any nominee he sends up. If the court will then face many 4-4 decisions for the next year, so be it.
Given the divisions on the court and balance of power, and the disposition of liberal justices to impose upon the nation an ideology that would never be embraced democratically, the Republican Party is almost duty-bound to oppose any Obama nominee.
What kind of Supreme Court do the American people wish to have? That is a question to be decided in 2016 not by a lame-duck president, but by the American electorate in November.
Does the nation want an activist judiciary to remake America into a more liberal society, as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor would like to see it remade?
Or do the American people want a more constitutional court that returns power to the people and their elected representatives?
Lets have it out.
Republicans should tell the American people that when they vote in November they will be deciding not only the next president, not only which party shall control Congress, they will be deciding what kind of Supreme Court their country should have. Which is as it should be.
If the GOP cant win this argument, they have lost the country.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/leave-the-scalia-chair-vacant/#qgCp7i2dWeRpem5H.99
MICHAEL SAVAGE: 'WAS SCALIA MURDERED?'
Talk-radio giant calls for 'Warren Commission': 'This is serious business'
World Net Daily - Feb 16, 2016
With confirmation that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday morning with a pillow over his head and his clothes unwrinkled, nationally syndicated talk-radio host Michael Savage called for an investigation on the level of the presidentially appointed probe into President John F. Kennedys assassination in 1963.
Was [Scalia] murdered? Savage asked his listeners.
We need a Warren Commission-like federal investigation, he said. This is serious business.
Savage said an immediate autopsy of the body is needed.
There was no medical examiner present. There was no one who declared the death who was there. It was done by telephone from a U.S. Marshal appointed by Obama himself, he said.
In an essay posted on his website, Savage asked what would happen if Donald Trump were in the White House in his final year and the justice was Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Do you think the left would be screaming that Donald Trump would have no right to appoint anyone to the Supreme Court? Do you think they would be demanding an autopsy and a full federal investigation?
In an interview Monday with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, Savage discussed the implications of Scalia's death.
"We had a razor-thin savior of the conservative, or, shall I say traditional, ways in America, Antonin Scalia, who was found dead under suspicious circumstances," he said. "And now this character in the White House who nobody with a rational mind should trust is trying to railroad Loretta Lynch down our throats ... as his number one choice. Can you believe this?"
Savage said somebody must stop Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court so the choice can be made by the new president.
"And I hope it's you," Savage told Trump.
Savage noted Scalia's role in the Supreme Court's Feb. 9 decision that temporarily blocks Obama administration rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
"Donald, you know that just five, six days before Scalia was found dead with a pillow over his face, he was the lead voice against Obama's attempts to railroad that green gangsterism down our throats, he knocked it out? He was the one who did it."
The 79-year-old Scalia had been on a hunting trip at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Presidio County, Texas.
Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who pronounced Scalia dead, said the death certificate will say the cause of death was natural and that he suffered a heart attack.
She said she decided not to order an autopsy after Sheriff Danny Dominguez concluded there were no signs of foul play, reported WFAA News in Dallas. The Scalia family concurred.
As part of my investigation, one of the things I did ask the sheriff and the U.S. Marshal: Were there any signs of foul play? And they said, 'Absolutely not.' At that time, I still wanted to be careful, and asked them if [Scalia's] physician would call me, Guevara said.
Guevara said she talked to Scalia's doctor in Washington, D.C., who told her Scalia had been sick and had visited his office Wednesday and Thursday before going on the hunting trip Friday.
According to Guevara, Scalia told his group Friday at dinner he was not feeling well and went to his room early. He then missed breakfast and lunch Saturday and was found unresponsive in his bed.
The owner of the Texas ranch and resort said Scalia died peacefully.
The judge, when I found him Saturday morning, was in complete repose, John Poindexter, the owner of Cibolo Creek Ranch in Marfa, Texas, told NBC News. He was very peaceful in his in the bed. He had obviously passed away with no difficulty at all in the middle of the night.
Scalia, who was appointed to the high court by former President Ronald Reagan, was the longest-serving justice on the court, having taken his seat on Sept. 26, 1986.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/michael-savage-was-scalia-murdered/#7QRfYI8zoMv9Rpdo.99
CHANGING OF THE GUARD
LEAVE THE SCALIA CHAIR VACANT
Pat Buchanan Recalls '68 Fight When GOP Senators Held Up Appointment -- As The Minority
World Net Daily - Feb 16, 2016
It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in an unseemly quarrel over who would succeed him.
But no one can replace Justice Scalia.
He was a giant among jurists. For a third of a century, he led the conservative wing of the high court, creating a new school of judicial thought called originalism.
But originalism is not conservatism, which, in the judicial era that preceded Scalia, often meant court decisions that conserved the radical social revolution Earl Warrens court had imposed upon us.
Scalia believed in going back to the founding documents of the republic and discerning from them the original meaning and intent of the framers.
He would look at the purpose of the authors of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and post-Civil War amendments, and conclude that it was an absurdity to discover there, or read into them, a constitutional right to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same sex.
The words Scalia used to ridicule such nonsense did as much to discredit majority opinions as did his dissenting votes.
I remember being called into the office of White House Chief of Staff Don Regan, 30 years ago, to be informed that the judge whom Ronald Reagan would name to replace William Rehnquist, who had been named chief justice, would be U.S. Appellate Court Judge Antonin Scalia.
Regan was grinning at me as he made the announcement, and I let out a whoop of victory. Since Nixons days, some of us had argued for naming an Italian Catholic to the high court. Yet, all six of Nixons nominees, and the only nominee of Gerald Ford, were WASPs.
Scalias death removes the courts most brilliant mind and most colorful member. Personable, witty, acerbic, a fine writer, he used his opinions, mostly dissents, not only to make his case but to skewer the majority opinion.
And while Sen. Mitch McConnell may be faulted for not waiting a decent interval after Scalias death to declare that the Senate will not confirm any Obama nominee to succeed Scalia, the majority leaders position is exactly the right one for the party.
Some of us in the Nixon campaign of 1968 still recall how Chief Justice Earl Warren, fearing his old antagonist Richard Nixon might be elected, offered his resignation to LBJ in June of 1968, but contingent on Senate confirmation of a successor. The fix was in.
Johnson nominated Justice Abe Fortas, a crony, to succeed Warren and Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, another crony, to fill the Fortas seat. Nixon, urged by his old friend William Rogers, Ikes attorney general, stayed out of the battle. Some of us did not.
Senate Republicans, led by Bob Griffin of Michigan and including John Tower, Howard Baker and Strom Thurmond, held up the vote on Fortas until they had enough support to sustain a filibuster and run out the clock. In October, Fortas threw in the towel.
The following spring, President Nixon named U.S. Appellate Court Judge Warren Burger to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice.
The GOP Senate majority should follow the example of that gutsy Senate Republican minority of half a century ago. The window for any Supreme Court nominees should be slammed shut until 2017.
Republicans should tell our transformative president that his days of transforming America are over, that he will not be remaking the court into a bastion of the left after his departure, and that, while he has the right to nominate whom he wishes, the U.S. Senate will exercise its right to reject any nominee he sends up. If the court will then face many 4-4 decisions for the next year, so be it.
Given the divisions on the court and balance of power, and the disposition of liberal justices to impose upon the nation an ideology that would never be embraced democratically, the Republican Party is almost duty-bound to oppose any Obama nominee.
What kind of Supreme Court do the American people wish to have? That is a question to be decided in 2016 not by a lame-duck president, but by the American electorate in November.
Does the nation want an activist judiciary to remake America into a more liberal society, as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor would like to see it remade?
Or do the American people want a more constitutional court that returns power to the people and their elected representatives?
Lets have it out.
Republicans should tell the American people that when they vote in November they will be deciding not only the next president, not only which party shall control Congress, they will be deciding what kind of Supreme Court their country should have. Which is as it should be.
If the GOP cant win this argument, they have lost the country.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/leave-the-scalia-chair-vacant/#qgCp7i2dWeRpem5H.99
Feb 16, 2016 16:33:38 #
Feb 16, 2016 16:58:46 #
PaulPisces wrote:
What a bunch of nonsense!
What a witty reply. Full of intelligent thought...NOT! Do you really think a lame duck should be allowed to decide the next person appointed to the Supreme Court? How would you feel if there was a Republican president right now? Wouldn't you do the same thing?
Feb 16, 2016 16:59:08 #
PaulPisces wrote:
What a bunch of nonsense!
Most likely, yes.
Part of the Clinton death squad.
Feb 16, 2016 17:02:07 #
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
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I'm guessing there will be no autopsy. They can't afford to let anyone know the truth.
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