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Meanwhile, Scalia's legacy being debated somewhat sharply at his alma mater Georgetown -- (link)

Posted by prayformojo (aka mayhem) Feb 19 '16, 11:17

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/18/georgetown-law-professors-argue-over-how-and-whether-to-mourn-scalia/?hpid=hp_local-news_georgetown-930pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Wait, he's *your* fault? -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:33 6
- oh god, mojo's a Hoya? - sweet baboo Feb 19, 11:37 5
  - I thought he always took the 2nd half of March off as a vacation...I had no idea it was work-related. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 11:38 4
    - dum -- nm* - ML Feb 19, 11:38 3
      - Thank you Captain Joke-Stomper. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 11:40 2
        
        I think the Jeb news has him down. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:42
        
        :-/ -- nm - ML Feb 19, 11:41
I hear a lot about him being considered a sharp legal mind, which seems at odds with his use of "strict Constructionism" as a crutch - TWuG Feb 19, 11:26 23
- He was highly intelligent and used it well to get a great many people to see things his way. - Krusty Feb 19, 11:36 4
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    - You said it way better than I could. He really had a great way of changing the conversion in a direction that - Krusty Feb 19, 11:47 2
      - Yes, and what's somewhat frustrating about it is that it has left the less knowledgable (right leaning) public with the impression that they lost the - pmb Feb 19, 12:12 1
        
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  - And didn't he always have one liberal clerk to challenge him? -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 12:11 2
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      - Ah. I guess after 20 years he knew he was always right. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 13:03
  - Abd to be honest, there's nothing wrong with inconsistency per se. People should change their minds as they get better information, learn different - Roger More Feb 19, 11:43 9
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      - My post was brought to you by one too many "Obama's position evolved" remarks -- nm* - Roger More Feb 19, 13:02
      - He always struck me as "here's the result, now how do I justify it" kind of justice. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 12:01 4
        
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        this was my experience as a clerk on an intermediate state court of appeal - sweet baboo Feb 19, 12:06
        
        Exactly this for me. My former law school professor (Posner) seems to have taken great joy over the last few years in excoriating Scalia for this. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 12:06 1
        
        i'd give a hundred Scalias for one Posner -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 19, 12:23
    - Sure, but his fiction was that he never changed his mind and his determinations were based solely on the text rather than his judgment and opinions. - pmb Feb 19, 11:46 1
      - This. "Hey, it's mot *me* saying gays don't have rights, it's the Constitution...." -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 11:47
  - what other judge has opinions with insults towards the mental abilities of disentors, he's an arch trump -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 11:32
  - Right. I described him to someone as very smart but intellectually dishonest. He was the Ted Cruz of the SC. Devout to the original text (except - pmb Feb 19, 11:32
  - From his opponents point of view, who do you think they'd think of as worse: Scalia or Strom Thurmond? - Max Feb 19, 11:31 1
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