What can be done about the Supreme Court judge, Scalia? He makes

[shraby]

me wonder if he's becoming more and more demented?
After his last remark about affirmative action, it seems to me there should be steps taken to convince him to step down.

Or to impeach him. He is no longer fit to serve.

[2naSalit]

1. All the more reason to make sure

a Dem Congress emerges after the next GE. Not gonna happen with Rs in control.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Elect a Democratic President so we can replace him with a better judge when he retires.

The Republican House will never impeach Scalia.
The political ramifications of impeaching a sitting Supreme Court Justice because of his bigoted speech makes him untouchable even by a Democratic Congress.
What he said is not against the law, even if it calls into doubt his ability to deal fairly with court cases concerning race.

[olddots]

3. I wish I had an answer

A job for life ?

[sharp_stick]

4. Keep sending him artery clogging

food. I hear he really likes Carbonara sauce and I'm thinking of sending him a gallon in hopes that it clogs up that coronary artery just enough.

[Major Nikon]

11. Send cannolis

Should only take one or two.

[Hortensis]

5. Conservative leadership is extremely worried about four

justices of already advanced age. Many experts feel controlling their replacements is the GOP's largest goal by far this election season. The demographic advantage has shifted left and is growing -- that writing is on the wall in giant letters.

Even though GOP presidents named 12 of the last 16 judges to the Court, they never achieved a majority that would dependably support the Right's ideology. Replacement of Thurgood Marshall was the last time, almost a quarter century ago, that a new appointment even changed ideologically.

So 2016 is the GOP's last chance to even hold onto its victories over the past quarter century, much less advance its ideology. Even the survival of our new oligarch class is in question if the GOP loses the White House.

Scary. To me! We really, really NEED reliable election results monitoring, especially electronic voting that most states DO NOT HAVE. As for Scalia, if he is suffering from advancing dementia, normally he would be gently encouraged to resign. In this environment, though, if the GOP doesn't take the White House, I'm wondering if the right might fight to keep him on the court, no matter what condition he was in.

[MohRokTah]

6. There is no way to impeach.

So long as there is a Democratic president, he won't quit and the Republicans would never vote to impeach.

And that's the only way to remove him.

All that's left is to wait for him to pass on from natural causes.

[winstars]

7. We need to remember his words when DU'ers say "I will sit out '16 if my guy or gal is not nominated"

All our spats gotta end after the convention. Sure there will be some who can't hold there nose long enough in the voting booth if its Bernie and not Hillary or vice a versa. Thats cool, no worries...

But me, I like Bernie and Hillary and Martin and there is no fucking way I am NOT going to vote for WHOEVER is the Democratic candidate for President.

Fat Tony can go straight to hell and when he does, I wanna have helped influence who his REPLACEMENT IS.

[TeddyR]

9. Exact point I made in a thread

Asking what we do about "DINOs." You vote for the Democrat on the ticket - that's how we avoid a Trump or Rubio president and take back Congress and that's how we avoid another Scalia or Alito.

[winstars]

10. Its actually pretty simple... Maybe I have less principles than others? I don't care...

I am a registered Democrat for a reason. I hate some of the BS they do, in fact a lot of it. But I ain't just gonna sit here and let this country go down the tubes.

Look at what is happening right now. We lived thru Bush and Cheeny (thanks Tweety!) and Nixon and the rest... And we might have used the word Fascism along the way in some super heated argument here and there.

But today, we are using the word Fascism and saying it as a matter of fact because IT IS HAPPENING AROUND US RIGHT NOW!!!

This Trump is getting out of control and the comparisons to early 1930's Germany are getting less crazy by the fucking day...

We MUST STICK TOGETHER now, more then ever in our lifetimes because this is a new kinda of crazy...

[HughBeaumont]

8. That position is papal, and I'm not talking ex-Pope Benedict either.

This is why the ultimate horror show would be "All Three Branches". We absolutely and unequivocally CANNOT have a Republican president and expect voter's, women's, children's and LGBTQI rights to expect survival. A 6-3 or 7-2 Opus Dei Supreme Court that answers to the hard right, single-issue RCC over the United States cannot happen.