Eight years ago this week, as the nation mourned the loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, left-wing pundits unleashed an appalling storm of hateful comments about the longtime conservative jurist, slashing him as “regressive,” “cruel” and “reprehensible.”
Then when GOP Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would not vote on a replacement for Scalia until after the 2016 election, the liberal media hissed that it was, as the New York Times framed it, “another attempt to deny the legitimacy of the country’s first black President.”
Scalia, who won the support of every Senate Democrat when he was unanimously confirmed in 1986, died on February 13, 2016. The nastiness began immediately. “So if the news about Scalia is true, how long do we have to wait until we can openly not be sad about it?” quickly tweeted Rolling…
