These People Are Killing It With Their SCOTUS Coverage

Justice Antonin Scalia's seat is an overgrown abandoned lot tacitly looked after by grizzled caretaker Justice Clarence Thomas.

(Photograph by Franz Jantzen/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)

(Photograph by Franz Jantzen/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)

The good folks at The Onion have turned Joe Biden into a wild, drunk reprobate and John Kerry into an international man of mystery, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they’ve transformed Justice Scalia’s vacant Supreme Court seat from a cool jumping off point into a new character all its own.

After telling us that Scalia’s seat had become the home of horny teenagers, The Onion now pushes that trope one further and casts the seat as an overgrown abandoned lot tacitly looked after by grizzled caretaker Justice Clarence Thomas.

As we reach 188 days of a vacant Supreme Court seat in the effort of congressional Republicans to keep America safe from the black guy it actually elected… twice defend the right of voters to have the ultimate say on this pick, and Hillary Clinton hints that she may replace Chief Judge Garland, turning the seat into a vessel for every trop of poor stewardship and neglect is the most fitting coverage imaginable.

Of course, Above the Law readers know that the justices all move over after an appropriate mourning period, so Scalia’s physical seat is actually warm right now — it’s Justice Kagan’s old chair that is now vacant — but let’s not disrupt the narrative.

Teens Throwing Rocks At Overgrown, Long-Vacant Supreme Court Seat [The Onion]

Earlier: The Sad Final Fate Of Justice Scalia’s Vacant Seat

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