In the wake of Antonin Scalia's death, wingnuts declaim he was murdered, officials announce he will lie in repose, and many struggle (or don't) to say something less toxic than the bigot and bully who was "a poison to the nation," who gave us Citizens United, who fought against equal rights, cavorted with the powerful and stunningly declared "mere factual innocence" was no reason not to execute someone. So about not speaking ill of the dead: To quote Scalia after Bush vs. Gore, "Get over it."
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