please?

there would be a VERY LOUD CALL from the right and the MSM to have him impeached.

If any of the left leaning justices pulled ANY of the crape he and the dimwit Thomas pulled they would be totally slammed.

according to them

and the now fully KNOW it ...

Actually, is that something that we can put in the DU dictionary, if it made the transition over to here? I think it should be there in some kind of official-ly like capacity, or something (if it's there already, nevermind and I'm lazy this morning.)

Black crape... like for mourning

or crepe chiffon?

than an actual jurist. The man is human sewage.

As far sa I know, he is considered to be a great legal mind. Also, sewage.

before I trust Scalia to do the right thing.

amongst the dons than there is within the Right wing of the SCOTUS!

He'd be 10x worse than John Gotti, 'Whitey' Bulger, and Manuel Noriega combined!

Scalia is quite smart. And he's occasionally very funny. But he has no moral compass.

who knew Scalia fairly well from their days on the Harvard Law Review. He told me that Scalia is extremely bright - bright enough to twist the law in whatever direction he wants it to go while providing himself scholarly and precedential cover.

The discussion came about in the context of a case he was going to be arguing before the SCOTUS. I got the distinct impression even then - 1989 - that this man did not trust Scalia any farther than he could throw him.

He has lots of temperament, but there is nothing judicial about it.

Justice is supposed to be blind. Scalia wears Republican-colored glasses.

His worries about Arizona's right to protect their citizens & borders from invasion of undocumented workers...Montana's right to defend their state from the invasion of Corrupt SuperPacs, didn't get the same consideration.

I suppose to Antone Scalia, Undocumented workers bad....money corrupt Political Pacs...good.

Too Bad Montana. Too bad America...Fucking HACK.

Impeachment?

The Legislative Branch (Congress) has the power to impeach and convict a US Supreme Court justice if he or she commits wrongdoing, but no one has the power to "get rid" of a member of the Court simply because they don't like his (or her) decisions or ideology.

If Congress believes a judge or justice has done something to merit removal, the US House of Representatives files articles of impeachment (like a grand jury indictment), and the Senate conducts a trial to determine whether the justice is guilty. If convicted at trial, the justice will be removed from office.



I'm not holding my breath.

he would have to deal with it whether we succeeded or not.

It would have to be done on the front steps, then the Democrats would be accused of running away or not doing their jobs. A lot of people are dependent on their voting and working there. The real work is, as always, in the states that elected the representatives. We're in charge of that, as usual.

They don't control that, yet, anyway.

We would not be having this if the Tea Party had not mobilized their base from the net and media to elect these SOBs. If they get away in the states with their gerrymandering and voter ID = poll tax schemes their elected state officials put into place, there will be no Democrats to kick around anymore. They will have achieved their goal they've worked on for a generation, a permanent GOP majority. There is no law saying we must have more than one party in this nation, or that we even need one party, either.

I grew up in a one-party state, it was all Democratic. There were about as many Republicans in the state as there are Communist party members now, and they never won a seat. Reagan changed that and now it has again turned to a virtually one party state again, GOP.

A lot of people vote on that basis, per the individual, but representation depends on coalitions between groups that cannot get along in real life. If we do not morph our online activities into changing the minds of real life voters, well...

2010 will be repeated until it's not even noticed anymore. Got to go, splitting head ache all day. Have a good one, E.

His Siamese twin.

So... let's say a chief justice declares in his confirmation hearings he will not let personal ideology or feelings interfere with his rulings and then he makes a ruling that is clearly unconstitutional as well as not even in the scope of the issue before the court but very very beneficial to his fellow conservatives everywhere. Could we get him impeached too?

I doubt the current House would even entertain the idea of bringing charges against a conservative justice.

Hell, even if we had control of the House, I'm not sure we could count on our "Democrats" to do it.

Yet another great reason we need to re-take the House (and hold the Senate) this November! And Scalia's impeachment should be a top priority in a new Dem House.

Bake

There ought to be some provision for removing a justice who is incapable of performing his duties. If you dig hard enough, you can usually find something.

The comments on Dionne's piece have a particularly shrill tone. They get louder and snarkier as they get more defensive.

the obvious partiality shown by Scala, hunting with Cheney while "deciding" a case brought against him and many other judicial improprieties by Scala, would be quite adequate to bring impeachment proceedings against him
As for Thomas, his 20+ years of illegal IRS filings and his open support of tea-party groups while deciding cases they were involved in have tarnished any illusion of justice that the SCOTUS ever had.
Scala is openly biased while Thomas has proven that an actively criminal person(?) is "fit" to serve on the highest court in America.
Nothing short of impeachment could restore the illusion of justice that the SCOTUS is (at least) required to maintain.

Even if all of the other branches of our government functioned adequately, "our" SCOTUS would still be the epitome of political corruption.

If you have the votes, he can be as innocent as a saint,

and still removed from office...

Sometimes you just want to sit back and soak it in!

Congress can impeach and remove from office for anything.

That's part of why the barrier is so high. So that it is too difficult to use "just because".

Why is no one asking about this man's health issues?

He's lost his filters. What causes that?

scratched his chin and said Quack! Quack! Quack!

...because he wasn't able to convince the others to overthrow the health care law.

He needs to be impeached and convicted to be removed otherwise he's there till he dies (fingers crossed that happens sooner than later).

Wishing death, not so much. But ironically the consequence of his death would likely remove a huge roadblock toward a more progressive country.

another progressive quality.

Sadly, this man has no shame. Being exposed (yet again) as a partisan hack won't cause him to resign, nor would a massive public outcry.

The man is entering senility, plain and simple. So, is America supposed to follow judgements rendered by a man wearing a foil hat who sits in his chamber blowing bubbles and calling out insults? There should be something in place to address this kind of madness.

Conflicts of interest up the wazoo, and a decided lack of respect for the American system of governance.

I wish we could make this happen.

interfered in the 2000 election. Once they got away with that most serious crime, they knew they were free to do whatever they wanted for their real bosses, and they have.

Scalia is FOR overturning Roe V Wade, but he is also for Orgies and thinks the American people should engage in more of them 'to relieve stress'. I guess he's speaking from experience.

Since he repeated his support for stress-relieving Orgies a few times, I often wondered what his advice would be to women who might become pregnant during those orgies.

Scalia is above the law. Our judicial system is a mockery of what the ideals we claim to uphold intended.

state politics. why was it allowed?

let it pass, will always remain a mystery. That decision should have been fought until they were forced to get out of the way and allow the actual laws that govern elections, proceed. Then those who who tried to interfere with an election should have been impeached.

But we would have to be living in a country that respected the rule of law for that to happen. They are above the law and at a time when we so badly needed heroes, we had only appeasers.

Laugh line of this article:

"I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-588582.html

BS the people will overlook. That Scalia keeps getting more and more outrageous, testing the limits, seeing how much they can get away with. And so far, there seems to be no limit.

We just keep looking the other way no matter how outrageously they act.

The so called "Liberal Media" does.

To top it off, if you point out even the IDEA that he should even be QUESTIONED it causes them to look at you like you just said you saw a UFO.

The Corporate Megalomaniacs who've usurped our media, our politics, AND our global economy wanted Dubyah in the White House. They got what they wanted...

decades the far right has been busy and the political landscape was far more conducive to a coup like this in 2000.

In our judicial system, the court sits as an arbiter, not a fact finder or the source of personal opinion. They are to consider the case presented before them based on the arguments of the plaintiff(s) and defendant(s). They may rely on court precedent, legal theories, etc. in support of their decision. But the decision is to be limited to the facts presented, arguments actually presented before the court, and relevant legal analysis.

We know courts do issue dicta but Scalia's rant was not dicta. It was extraneous demagoguery from what is supposed to be an independent judiciary.

Scalia, resign or retire. You are not fit to sit as a Supreme Court Justice. You are better suited as a court jester.

On the ground he is not doing the job - determining the law, without regard to his personal political opinions.

Perfect name for him!

Scalia is 76 and Kennedy turns 76 next month. Here's to hoping they decide to retire soon and don't intend to die on the bench.

and take his inept, pathetic pal Clarence "WhatTonySaid" with him.

He has tainted the high court with his lack of professionalism. Indeed Scalia is USING the Supreme Court as his personal platform to broadcast his not so sacred opinion!
Wisconsinites have seen this type of "shot gun" behavior from their own State Supreme Court when Prosser
strangled Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in Her own office after She asked him to leave. He also has called
Chief Justice Abrahamson a bitch.
So far, although there has supposedly been an investigation into Prosser's behavior, nothing has been done about it.

This is the legacy/history of judges appointed by Repukes.

If we had a system that held criminals responsible, such as torture camp creators, then we might be able to address a corrupt court justice but we don't.

It's worthless to discuss Scalia's violations when other, ever worse violations are routinely ignored. The only way to address any of it is to change the system and to simply start putting these criminals on trial and expose all of their crimes to the public.

He stands with money, with privilege, with those who consider themselves more important than the masses, indeed like he obviously does.

An friend's son was in college in Chicago several decades ago. He was renting his room. When he moved out, his landlord tried to keep the security deposit, which was only returned when the young student was about to instigate legal action against the landlord. The landlord's name? Antonin Scalia. Later on, some idiot thought he was Supreme Court material.

Supremely something, anyway. You fill it in.

'He stands with money, with privilege, with those who consider themselves more important than the masses, indeed like he obviously does. '


That is correct. Nor is he one of them either. He only stands with them.


FOR THIS MONEY AND TEMPORARY POWER......He does what he does.


Simple..


Why don't people see the danger? When you are LIVING it.

People need to understand what AMERICA is about. IT IS NOT about these people.

IT IS ABOUT US. NOT THEM.







YOU ALREADY SEE HOW THEY ABUSE DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM.....




WITH YOUR OWN EYES.

He has learned nothing about Humanity









Or his country. He is NO Patriot. AND He does not need to be one in this system. That is BROKEN.

He stands with the ELITES. They do not need to be Patriots either.

Fail to understand that at your own demise.


You are living it. RIGHT NOW.


At the end of the day, all this man is, is a judge. He is not one of the elites. He should be a Patriot. But he is not.

without Dennis, there might not be anybody with enough gumption to do it.

There is treason going on. It needs to be dealt with.

Then you can deal with Scalia..


This is Neo-America people....Wake up to it.

Here(Hopefully)is a link to the history of voter suppression starting with William Rehnquist in 1964(not the Jump Jim Crow era post abolition) from the GOP strategerie,code named operation Eagle Eye up to the present day.
I Hope this adds some flavor to the background analysis of the crooked fu(k3rs en their fascist takeover of the Constitution and BOR.

[link:http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201191883753799660.html|]

You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.
-Boris Bazhanov Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary

Sure, he might introduce articles of impeachment. But they'd be DOA. Even if we "sweep" the election, the Democrats, having lived through attempts to impeach Earl Warren and William O. Douglas, aren't going to launch one against Scalia. Not a chance.

Vincent Bugliosi started an online petition to do just that - and all of that just disappeared after the WTC attacks.

See what they will do next.

It is that simple.

To think otherwise...Is ludicrous and is fodder for fools and dead men. I just say this: People should not forget their American histroy....

Do not let others tell you what isn't true about it either.... Never forget that. And this has been going on for 50-60 years now. Think about that.....you will not like the answers either.


So far as the elections, we need PATRIOTS first, then lawyers..... It is that simple.

Some of the founding fathers were lawyers, and judges...BUT They Were Patriots First.

Right now, people who are NOT Patriots are trying to decide our futures by stealing our elections.


It is ALL obvious.. I say think about that when you consider what some of our fellow citizens are doing.

Many more. With Rover on the loose, expect vote flipping in November. And it won't be talked about and no one will do anything about it - again.

and, he won't be impeached, either.

Everything, is ALWAYS, an option. Anything can happen in life. Don't give up, they win then. See the future we NEED, then fight for it. It is simple.

Why do you think America exists in the first place??????? A dream, and ACTION.

There are many who joke about his wearing barbed wire under his robes.

it is not NEEDED. It is a distraction, whether or NOT it is true. SIMPLE

It is not relevant to YOU or I. If it even exists, it is relevant ONLY to the elites.

They could care less about what the majority of America thinks.

As a matter of fact, they KNOW this is a VERY Liberal country. If it were as Right Wing as they claim then they wouldn't need to spend a DIME on the Right Wing Think Tanks and FOX "News". Think about it. These people are cheap as hell. They wouldn't want to spend the money if America already agreed with them.

America lost faith in the Supreme Court after Bush v Gore and it was Fat Tony (Mike Malloy's pet name for him) that has repeatedly and openly defied any efforts to regain even the illusion that the Supreme Court is an unbiased sentinel of justice.

I say, hit him with everything. None of this "Fight Fire with Water" crap Democrats always do and no more of this believing there is some kind of universal judge out there to appeal to. Too often, Democrats act like they can hold their heads up high for not getting into the fight and take pride in their having kept everything on an intellectually appealing and reasoned nature.

The Right Wing declared war on us a long time ago and it's high time we stopped taking casualties and launch an offensive instead of half-assed counterattacks.

THAT is a fact.... Americans are good people. We do not do this stuff, THEY do. America has NOT always been this way like it is now. Never let anyone make you think that it has been. They WANT you to think that... Because then, YOU think that there is really nothing to be changed about it. Think about that.... They DO NOT want you to know even what must be changed....Why do you think they TWIST American History like they DO? People NEED to THINK about that.

THIS IS A FACT THAT YOU ALL KNOW. YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DO IT. NOW YOU DO I HOPE.



THE THING IS, WHETHER YOU EVEN AGREE WITH ME AS TO ALL THEIR REASONS FOR DOING IT, THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING. PEOPLE NEED TO ASK THEMSELVES WHY THEY SAY THOSE THINGS, THEY ARE NOT STUPID. I ALREADY KNOW WHY, SO I DON'T NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT MUCH.. IT IS THE WORLD AND HISTORY. WHY WOULD PEOPLE WANT TO REWRITE HISTORY? WHY DO PEOPLE USUALLY TRY TO DO THIS? ASK THAT...

WHEN I HEAR THOSE PEOPLE, OUR FELLOW CITIZENS, TALK ABOUT AMERICA AND HISTORY, WHAT THEY SAY IS A SORT OF THEOCRATIC, AUTHORITARIAN STATE. NOT THE AMERICA THE FOUNDING FATHERS ENVISIONED OR CREATED. THINK ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ALL HEAR IT TOO. NOW WHY DO THEY SAY THOSE THINGS THAT THEY SAY?

WHAT IS GOING ON ALL AROUND YOU?



The progression continues....

Here in Southern California the Right Wing is composed of overpaid jerks that drive SUVs like they're sports cars and who avoid contact with the public.

I've always said that if you want to attract an Irvine girl,...stuff a sock in your wallet.

THE WORDS ALL RUN TOGETHER AND I WILL WAGER MOST PEOPLE STOP READING WHEN THEY SEE THEM.

It really is impolite.

It AFFECTS the WAY he makes DECISIONS. My TWO cents.

The founder has been canonized as a saint. It is a very politically involved religious organization. It has offices and schools all over the USA and the world.

http://www.opusdei.org/

Scalia, though, has never said he's a member of OD, though his son, Paul, is a priest in an order that has tight affiliations with the group.

I remember hearing him speak and somehow he managed to get in an underhanded smear at Robert F. Kennedy. That is how desperate he was to make sure he made his speech political.

He is quite extreme.

Of course, judges have political opinions. But it is really inappropriate for a judge to be so extremely political -- especially on the level of personalities. A judge needs to be able to weigh the various aspects of an issue and separate himself from his own political opinion.

I question whether Scalia can do that.

It's as simple as that

Those that are democrats, or vote with the democrats stop picking on every little thing that Obama did not do on your wedge issue list, and just STFU and vote for Obama in 2012, and then make sure and vote for the democrat in 2016 and 2020

that will insure a favorable democratic/liberal court with most likely being 7 to 2 or 6 to 3 at that point just from retirements

and vote for only those straight down the line who are either democrat, or will caucus with the democrats

and never believe the Ralph Nader's or others who say there is no difference between parties, because just on SCOTUS alone, there is, and that is enough.

Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush ain't gonna give any of us here any part of anything we want.

repukes will not allow Dem-appointed judges to be sworn in.

when all of the nutjobs on the right are voted out, or the smallest minority, they will not be able to stop it, like all the times in the past.

All it takes is voting, having the votes count, and the far right do nothings will no longer exist.
Someone eventually will not listen to Grover or Rush or Sean, if they want to be reelected.

And remember too- when actually was the last time Rush Limbaugh won anything major?
His constant whining and unhappiness show it has been a long long time that he won anything good.
Mitt Romney as the candidate on his side, shows how little power he actually has. (Same with John McCain in 2008). They talk big, but have no actual power.

He is unfit for the USSC.

he was at a really big firm yet he never made partner. He was there 6 years and was probaly asked to leave. 6-7 years is when you are on the partner track or you are asked to leave. he left. He really couldn't make it in his chosen profession.

So does this:

Scalia has gone to far methinks. The other Justices are not going to let him forget this.

and there is no way Congress is going to impeach him (sorry don't know the proper word for it). Face facts...Scarface is going to be on the bench for a long time and commit all kinds of 'breach of trust' and 'conflict of interest' acts...because who is going to stop him? You? Me? Congress?

LOL

We allowed the tyrants to take hold and will pay the price until they leave the bench.

Let me hold your coat.

I hope the Bushies all live to see what havoc in some cases perhaps treason they have reaked on this country - a country with the potential to show the world that a representative government can work.

CORRUPTION...

and the latest corruption being used to affect an election and it is MORE than just simple corruption. THE FUCKING CORRUPTION IS EVERYWHERE and people are LOST in it.

REASON THAT OUT....IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. UNTIL YOU SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES. UNTIL THEN, YOU ARE GRABBING AT SLITHERING SNAKES.

AND I SEE SNAKES EVERYWHERE, AND SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE.



THE FUCKING CORRUPTION=TREASON
One American has died directly because of this corruption, how many Mexicans? How many are not DEAD YET?


POLITICAL CORRUPTION...






Meanwhile....The progresssion continues....

Scalia looks like four racoons in a black plastic bag.

He should have been shown the door after duck hunting with Cheney while Cheney was involved in some case before the court.

He has behaved inappropriately for a long time.

And I have never understood why some people think he's so smart, even if they disagree with him. When one's legal opinions are so twisted and flawed, in order to reach a conclusion he wants, that is no indication of intelligence--in fact, it's an indication of the opposite. And of character weaknesses.

Seriously, I don't know that the United States would get far by the impeachment process, or by starting a shit storm of words. What I think is that a general protest movement such as Occupy should mic check every thing this activist supreme has said to hurt the court.

Of course, I'm more angry at the Democratic members of the Senate who allowed this court to become what it is, thus giving this fat turd unmitigated gall do say what he says, hunts with whom he hunts, and generally votes with whom he votes, all the while, dirtying the SCOTUS by his presence!

unless he blatantly commits a clear cut crime.
Otherwise he can do whatever he fucking wants.

He IS the law you know.
If he wants to write all his papers swearing at people he doesn't like that's his privilege.
It's not against the law.

There are no real rules for SCOTUS.
There are assumptions based of past performance of judges but he is not limited by them.

Face it.
You've got several partisan assholes in the Supreme Court and they are there for life.
No ifs ands or buts.

Sometimes reality sucks but it is better to face it than to do a bunch of wishful daydreaming.

and Pelosi declined to impeach him during the 4 years she was speaker.

Columns like these are good to read, but aggravating, since nothing will ever be done, and Fat Tony will continue his corrupt reign, and real Americans can't do anything about it.

He is so contemptuous and hateful, it is hard to imagine that he enjoys anything.

All the calls for impeachment that are in the thread are nothing more than wishes to the tooth fairy.

The Republicans control the House. They will not allow a bill of impeachment to even get to the floor.

Even if we do gain control of the House and impeach him it must be for actual felonies, not because we don't like his ideology. The Senate must convict by a 2/3 majority and Democrats won't have 67 seats in the Senate.

So a successful impeachment just isn't going to happen.