Say what you will about Antonin Scalia, who died last weekend under mysterious circumstances (are we really supposed to believe that he slept with a pillow by his head?!)—the man loved the Constitution; in fact, he fetishized it.
And so, there can be little doubt that Scalia is rolling over in his grave at the prospect of Barack Obama nominating someone to fill his vacant seat on the Supreme Court.
Now, technically speaking, Obama is and will remain president for the next 11 months; but, more to the point, he is and will remain black.
In all of American history, there is zero precedent for a black president making appointments to the Supreme Court when his term is more than 3/5ths completed.
Any suggestion to the contrary is interpretive jiggery-pokery ... pure applesauce.
Wake up, sheeple!
Morning lineup:
Meet The Press: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX); Roundtable: Radio Host Hugh Hewitt, Amy Walter (Cook Political Report), Joy Ann Reid (MSNBC) and John Ralston (Ralston Reports).
Face The Nation: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Roundtable: Susan Page (USA Today), Reihan Salam (National Review), Ron Brownstein (The Atlantic) and Mark Leibovich (New York Times Magazine).
This Week: RNC Chair Reince Priebus; Others TBD.
Fox News Sunday: Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Karl Rove, Neera Tanden (Center for American Progress), Radio Host Laura Ingraham and Julie Pace (Associated Press).
State of the Union: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX); Roundtable: Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile, Progressive Activist Van Jones, Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) and Republican Strategist Ana Navarro.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with the Mexican Marines who captured El Chapo (preview); an interview with Elaine Weinstein, whose husband was kidnapped in Pakistan (preview); and, interviews with the Oscar-nominated director and stars of Steve Jobs (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Actor Anthony Mackie; Actress Renée Elise Goldsberry; Writer Neal Brennan.
Tuesday: Actor Bobby Cannavale; Journalist David Remnick.
Wednesday: Actor Casey Affleck; Actor Zachary Levi; Author Dr. David Agus.
Thursday: Actress Angela Bassett; Band MisterWives.
Friday: Rerun.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ); Tuesday: Actor Anthony Mackie; Wednesday: Co-Founder/CEO of Airbnb Brian Chesky; Thursday: Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden.
Elsewhere...
Ted Cruz and Ben Carson spent more than seven minutes in heaven.
The Daily Beast reports that on Thursday night in South Carolina, ahead of the Conservative Review convention, Cruz and Carson "huddled" inside a storage closet so that they might work out their issues. The arch nemeses selected the storage closet because it was "neutral ground," as are all storage closets, where conventional laws do not apply. The meeting lasted for nearly 25 minutes, with a Secret Service detail standing outside, at one point informing a Republican operative, "Yeah, they're in that closet."
The meeting did "not go well," Carson communication strategist Jason Osborne told The Daily Beast.
Not only did the closet convention end with Carson concluding that the two would have to "agree to disagree"—the familiar death knell of once-happy couples across America—but it bumped into Carson's speaking time at the convention, meaning that somehow, Cruz managed to completely screw Carson over yet again, this time under the guise of reconciliation. Moreover, Carson agreed to meet with Cruz only for five minutes, and only if their tiny tête–à–tête were to remain off the record. Which it clearly hasn't.
Meanwhile...
The Malheur occupiers proved to be pretty shitty guests.
FBI agents investigating the scene of the Oregon wildlife reserve occupation this week found a trench full of "significant amounts of human feces" that was apparently left by Ammon Bundy's band of antigovernment militants. According to a court filing reported by Reuters, the shit hole was either on top of or next to "grounds containing sensitive artifacts" of the Burns Paiute Native American Tribe.
Shortly after the start of the six-week occupation, members of the Burns Paiute Tribe claimed that the militants were desecrating sacred ancestral lands and advocated for law enforcement to intervene. [...]
U.S. Attorney Billy Williams wrote in a federal court filing that agents discovered the feces on or near a "sensitive cultural site."
"Occupiers appear to have excavated two large trenches and an improvised road on or adjacent to grounds containing sensitive artifacts," Williams wrote.
In a way, you have to admire the occupiers' audacity. What better way to stake a claim to land you believe is rightfully yours than to literally shit all over the history of the people who got there before you?
And, in related news...
One of the indicted occupiers is suing the federal government for $666 billion ... because reasons!
Shawna Cox, a leader and one of the few women involved in the Oregon standoff at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, is demanding that the federal government pay her $666 billion.
In a lawsuit she filed in the U.S. District Court in Portland, she claims she was "maliciously prosecuted by State and Federal Bar Association members because they do not want to be held accountable for their subversive activities against the people of the United States of America," according to the Oregonian.
Cox's claim goes on to actually charge the government with wrongdoing.
"Evidence will show that federal employees were determined to secretly extend the boundaries of the Malheur. The individuals who we allegedly interfered with were directly involved in subversive activities to secretly extend the boundaries of the Malheur, and take taxpayers (ranchers) lives, liberties and properties," the complaint says.
Cox says that she has "suffered damages from the works of the devil in excess of six hundred sixty six billion, six hundred sixty six million, six hundred sixty six thousand, six hundred sixty six dollars and sixty six cents."
Mark it zero!
- Trix