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elleng
(130,964 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)feathers of the right wing ideology that sought to impede forward progress, an enemy of the marginalized, the poor, and under-privileged.
I assure you that's the PG version. Justice Scalia wouldn't have liked my original one little bit.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)In a 5-4 vote the SCOTUS in 2000 defeated Al Gore's winning presidential campaign by refusing to allow Florida to have a fair recount of the vote. Scalia was a leader of this action even going so far as to say that a recount would hurt bush.
It was the most anti-democratic action ever flouted upon the country, imo.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)he sat up at night looking for loopholes in the Emancipation Proclamation.
Twenty pounds of shit in a five pound sack. May he rot in pieces.
Sparkly
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tech3149
(4,452 posts)is that I'm glad he's dead and I didn't have to make it so.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)was one step away from being God.