Right now in terms of Supreme Court justices it is a standoff. It will take one of them dying (or something extremely debilitating) for an opening to come up. I cross my fingers every day it's going to be Scalia.

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3. Yes, but it depends on us!!!

Reply to pstokely (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:26 AM

Oct 2014

Scalia has already complained that if Democrats are still leading this country next year, he may be open to retiring.

Scalia will be 80 years old in just 2 years, and even he can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
It is coming like a freight train roaring down the tracks!

If the Democrats keep control of the Senate -- which they will -- it won't mean all that much to him.

But, if Democrats take back control of the House of Representatives this year, Scalia knows that the momentum for a Democrat being elected to the office of the President in 2016 will be on our side!!!
And that changes everything!

He really doesn't want to be there when another Democrat gets in the White House.
He may consider retiring in the next 2 years in order to tilt the scales back toward what the American people want from their government.

That is why it is very important for us to work as hard as we can to get back control of the House of Representatives this year!

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