{"id":31169,"date":"2016-02-14T18:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31169"},"modified":"2016-02-14T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:21:40","slug":"the-leading-conspiracy-theory-about-antonin-scalias-death-obama-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31169","title":{"rendered":"The leading conspiracy theory about Antonin Scalia\u2019s death: Obama did it."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"minute-title\" data-reactid=\".1627lqds8ow.3.2.$main-minute.0.0.0.2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1627lqds8ow.3.2.$main-minute.0.0.0.2.0.0\">The leading conspiracy theory about Antonin Scalia\u2019s death: Obama did it.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"minute-byline\" data-reactid=\".1627lqds8ow.3.2.$main-minute.0.0.0.0.0.1\">Ryan Kearney<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8c59f59ab624a380a4b4124dafe3da41ae3e8bbd.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31170\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8c59f59ab624a380a4b4124dafe3da41ae3e8bbd.jpeg\" alt=\"8c59f59ab624a380a4b4124dafe3da41ae3e8bbd\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8c59f59ab624a380a4b4124dafe3da41ae3e8bbd.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8c59f59ab624a380a4b4124dafe3da41ae3e8bbd-300x207.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"minute-content\" data-reactid=\".1627lqds8ow.3.2.$main-minute.0.0.0.2.1\">\n<p>The Supreme Court justice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/13\/politics\/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dies-at-79\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">died in his sleep<\/a> on Saturday <a href=\"http:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/129871\/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dead-age-79\">at a luxury resort<\/a> in West Texas, putting the Court\u2019s conservative majority at risk. If President Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/129877\/will-president-obama-nominate-supreme-court-replace-antonin-scalia\">eventual nominee<\/a> somehow gets confirmed this year, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/129879\/mitch-mcconnell-says-will-no-scalia-supreme-court-replacement-president-obama\">no sure thing<\/a>, the court will have five Democrat-appointed justices to the four picked by Republican presidents.\u00a0So of course some paranoid people on Twitter smell foul play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The SCOTUS was about to spank Obama once more for ruling by fiat and slap down his renegade EPA. Scalia died of natural causes my ass.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Teresa \u2020 \u0646 (@BlackIrishI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackIrishI\/status\/698639013473705984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/129888\/leading-conspiracy-theory-antonin-scalias-death-obama-it\">http:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/129888\/leading-conspiracy-theory-antonin-scalias-death-obama-it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leading conspiracy theory about Antonin Scalia\u2019s death: Obama did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}