Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dead at 79

[james_davis_nicoll]

Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dead at 79

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[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Remember that there's a lot of EPA regulation getting to the Supreme Court soonish. There's a lot of material consequence[1] riding on the composition of the court, since Congress is paralytic and not doing anything about climate change.

This particular appointment fight is unlikely to be about purely cultural issues.

[1] billions and billions of dollars, but that's not really an adequate descriptor