Unionized news outlet Gawker Media cheered Justice Antonin Scalia's death in a ostentatious victory chant Monday. Because of Scalia's vote (now lack thereof) in a case aimed at ending mandatory public union dues, Gawker's Hamilton Nolan felt it
The death of Justice Scalia gives new life to the troubled candidacy of Hillary Clinton. She now has a cause and forward-looking issues that can invigorate her chance of actually winning the presidency. If average Americans don't yet grasp the meaning
McDonnell is by no means doomed as a result of Scalia's death, experts say. The former governor's lawyers may be able to cobble together a group of five justices to back his position, especially since justices' views on legal issues related to
Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who pronounced Scalia's death a likely heart attack, now says she only meant his heart stopped when he died, the Washington Post reports. "It wasn't a heart attack," Guevara says. "He died of natural causes.
These thoughts occurred to me the day after the death of the hyper-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. I first recalled, as I walked down Beacon Avenue South (the squirrels there have clearly been fattened by the warm winter), the strange thing that