5 Facts About Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016)
“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79. He reportedly died in his sleep during a visit to Texas.” Acton
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His death is a major loss for the Supreme Court. If you haven’t read his dissenting opinion in last years’s homosexual marriage case, you should. The President has the Constitutional right to nominate SC justices, and the Senate has the Constitutional right for “Advice and Consent”. If the current President were a Republican, then Republicans would insist on his right to nominate a replacement. So let the process (Constitutional and political) work itself out and see what happens.
Wally Morris
Huntington, IN
If you want to read Scailia’s dissent in the Obergefell case (“gay marriage”) the official SCOTUS document is here:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
(To get to the dissents, you have to page/scroll past the “court opinion” to the Appendix…. Roberts’ dissent is first, then Scalia’s, followed by Thomas and then Alito. The page numbering restarts with each dissent.)
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
Perhaps it is possible to make too much of this encounter: http://fee.org/articles/justice-scalia-s-great-heart/
Anyway, I thought to share it. If it was truly a candid moment, it may well be significant showing “a great heart” as the reporter contends.
"Our faith itself... is not our saviour. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. B.B. Warfield
"Our faith itself... is not our saviour. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. B.B. Warfield
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