Shed no tears for Antonin Scalia: Let us not praise the man who gave us Citizens United and Bush v Gore
https://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/shed_no_tears_for_antonin_scalia_let_us_not_praise_the_man_who_gave_us_citizens_united_and_bush_v_gore/
Scalia let the innocent die, trampled our basic rights, gutted democracy and gave us George W. Bush. Good riddance
Preach. I agree with Salon on this COMPLETELY.
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I came to knock you up, I came to cut you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
I came to rock you up, I came to shout you down
I came around to tear your little world apart and break your soul apart
Antonin Scalia was one of the most profoundly dishonest men in the history of American public life. He made Richard Nixon seem almost quaint by comparison.
So you're innocent? So what? That was Scalia's “judicial philosophy” in a nutshell. He was the giant of the conservative legal world for three decades—its Ronald Reagan—and that's precisely what he stood for. That's what the conservative legal world stands for.
"Angle Bargle is great legal snark. But it comes from a man who made a career out of making the law inaccessible to most," she continued. "So excuse me while I sit the respected jurist tributes out. This is a man who made the most of exploiting his power."
A few examples come readily to mind. He not only held that the law does not protect the innocent, but also that fundamental rights—such as (gay) marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges) and abortion (Planned Parenthood v. Casey)—should be subject to state-level majority votes, that unlimited corporate campaign spending is something “we should celebrate rather than condemn,” (Citizens United), that vote-counting should be halted for causing “irreparable harm” to the candidate who might lose as a result, even while supposedly being done on behalf of those same voters (Bush v. Gore), that protecting the right to vote is an odious example of “racial entitlements” (comments related to Shelby County v. Holder), and that allowing local anti-discrimination laws to protect gays and lesbians amounts to “special treatment of homosexuals” (Romer v. Evans), just to hit a few of more easily summarize highlights of his ignominious career.
Scalia let the innocent die, trampled our basic rights, gutted democracy and gave us George W. Bush. Good riddance
Preach. I agree with Salon on this COMPLETELY.
[media=https://youtu.be/qZsVcoWRIkY]
I came to knock you up, I came to cut you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
I came to rock you up, I came to shout you down
I came around to tear your little world apart and break your soul apart
Antonin Scalia was one of the most profoundly dishonest men in the history of American public life. He made Richard Nixon seem almost quaint by comparison.
So you're innocent? So what? That was Scalia's “judicial philosophy” in a nutshell. He was the giant of the conservative legal world for three decades—its Ronald Reagan—and that's precisely what he stood for. That's what the conservative legal world stands for.
"Angle Bargle is great legal snark. But it comes from a man who made a career out of making the law inaccessible to most," she continued. "So excuse me while I sit the respected jurist tributes out. This is a man who made the most of exploiting his power."
A few examples come readily to mind. He not only held that the law does not protect the innocent, but also that fundamental rights—such as (gay) marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges) and abortion (Planned Parenthood v. Casey)—should be subject to state-level majority votes, that unlimited corporate campaign spending is something “we should celebrate rather than condemn,” (Citizens United), that vote-counting should be halted for causing “irreparable harm” to the candidate who might lose as a result, even while supposedly being done on behalf of those same voters (Bush v. Gore), that protecting the right to vote is an odious example of “racial entitlements” (comments related to Shelby County v. Holder), and that allowing local anti-discrimination laws to protect gays and lesbians amounts to “special treatment of homosexuals” (Romer v. Evans), just to hit a few of more easily summarize highlights of his ignominious career.
