Hate to be crass (like Scalia was) but does this give Obama the unexpected chance to get another liberal on the Supreme Court. Congress will likely shut that down because congress.
Oh and Trump remains an idiot that if he manages to get the nomination will get buried by ads displaying how awful he is.
It's interesting what the potential fallout of obstruction would be for the Republicans in the fall.
34 senate seats are up for grabs, 10 are Democrats, 24 are republicans that came in the tea party wave. Only two of the Dems seats are up for grabs, the rest are extremely safe seats.
It is already very likely that the Democrats take over the senate regardless. If the Republicans do not go through with the whole process for finding a replacement for Scalia, they will get hammered hard by any Dems running in those elections and it may end up as a filibuster proof majority for them in the Senate. That's why I think they will eventually go along with it otherwise they are going to be destroyed, perhaps even more than they were going to be anyway.
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It's interesting what the potential fallout of obstruction would be for the Republicans in the fall.
34 senate seats are up for grabs, 10 are Democrats, 24 are republicans that came in the tea party wave. Only two of the Dems seats are up for grabs, the rest are extremely safe seats.
It is already very likely that the Democrats take over the senate regardless. If the Republicans do not go through with the whole process for finding a replacement for Scalia, they will get hammered hard by any Dems running in those elections and it may end up as a filibuster proof majority for them in the Senate. That's why I think they will eventually go along with it otherwise they are going to be destroyed, perhaps even more than they were going to be anyway.
Yeah, I think it's going to increase the stakes on both sides, but that probably favors the Democrats simply because they tend to benefit from increases in turnout more. If the Democrats are able to convince the black and latino communities that the the vacant supreme court seat makes their participation all the more important (for social justice and immigration policies), that potentially gives them the inside track on senate seats in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, Nevada, and Colorado. Of course, there are Republican special interest groups (pro-life, pro-gun) that will also be riled up by the vacancy, but these groups tend to already vote in high numbers, so there isn't the same upside as there is for the Democrats.
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News about the death of Scalia peaked my interest enough to watch my first Republican debate of this season...
It was the most entertaining political debate I have ever seen until the mom joke then it was not anything resembling a debate maybe a heated argument at a dysfunctional families' dinner table.
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So Apple is balking at a court order to unlock the phone of the San Bernardino attackers phones. I can certainly see this becoming a big election issue yet again, the trade off of privacy versus security. Good for Apple telling the FBI to go #### itself though.
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Telling the FBI to go #### itself is one thing, but you can't tell a court order to go #### itself. You can either appeal the order and apply for a stay of the order pending said appeal, or you can follow the order. Anything else should result in imprisonment.
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I find it odd (and funny) that Apple has no problem selling everyone's information, but won't release someone's info who murdered a bunch of people. Shouldn't the NSA already have this guy's information?
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Telling the FBI to go #### itself is one thing, but you can't tell a court order to go #### itself. You can either appeal the order and apply for a stay of the order pending said appeal, or you can follow the order. Anything else should result in imprisonment.
Obeying the court order would both significantly harm Apple's reputation, and would likely send it's stock south (it actually went up today after news came out of this). His duty is to his shareholders, and he did exactly what any CEO should do in that situation. Nevermind that if he complies to US lawmakers, every single country on earth will demand the same. No one actually trusts the Government with this tool to not totally abuse it right? That fact he got to tell the US government and FBI to #### themselves is just one of life's little bonuses.
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