{"id":452143,"date":"2016-02-14T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=452143"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T23:12:22","slug":"justice-antonin-scalia-found-dead-representative-gohmert-releases-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=452143","title":{"rendered":"Justice Antonin Scalia Found Dead; Representative Gohmert Releases Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/louie-gohmert-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-452149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/louie-gohmert-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"louie-gohmert-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-452149\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Representative Louie Gohmert, of Tyler, released the following statement on the sudden news of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia&#8217;s passing: &#8220;In 1986, America needed an honorable, brilliant, ethical, clear-headed, protector of the U.S. Constitution. In response to all the musical prayers for God to &#8216;bless America,&#8217; He did in the form of Antonin Scalia. I loved his mental clarity, treasured his sense of humor and jokes, shared both his faith in God and his recognition of the troubled course ahead for our nation as it continued drifting further from our Constitutional mooring.&#8221; &#8220;My thoughts and prayers are for Justice Scalia&#8217;s family and for our country; but, I grieve not for Justice Scalia because that wonderful patriot has no doubt already heard, &#8216;Well done, good and faithful servant.'&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is mourning the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court. He was 79. The U.S. Marshals Service says Scalia was found dead Saturday morning at private residence in West Texas where he went to bed and did not appear for breakfast. Tributes have poured in. His death sets up an ideological stalemate on the court, which is now split 4-4 in cases going to the heart of the some of the most divisive issues in the nation. In the event of a tie vote, the lower court decision stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Representative Louie Gohmert, of Tyler, released the following statement on the sudden news of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia&#8217;s passing: &#8220;In 1986, America needed an honorable, brilliant, ethical, clear-headed, protector of the U.S. Constitution. In response to all the musical prayers for God to &#8216;bless America,&#8217; He did in the form &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=452143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Justice Antonin Scalia Found Dead; Representative Gohmert Releases Statement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":452149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 01:20:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452230,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452143\/revisions\/452230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/452149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}