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crunchy bar ftwKept Simple
6/26/15 1:58pm
THANK YOU! Listening to people fawn over his local news commenter level hot takes in law school made me want to vomit. Con Law in law school makes you realize the Constitution is essentially meaningless, and any hack can take whatever dumbass meaning suits their political agenda out of it. His whole devotion to textualism is so dumb, the constitution says nothing about anything, and his whole obsession with the “powerful gay lobby” bossing around the will of simple, god-fearing americans with the help of their libtard buddies on the court is so stupid. I think he actually believes his own bullshit, which is even crazier.
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  Cherith Cutestorycrunchy bar ftw
  6/26/15 2:04pm
  Law students are the fucking worst. Worse than lawyers.
  
  and his whole obsession with the “powerful gay lobby” bossing around the will of simple, god-fearing americans with the help of their libtard buddies on the court is so stupid
  
  People should know this is literally what he believes and has stated in a dissent to live in our legal history forever (i.e. Romer).
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  crunchy bar ftwCherith Cutestory
  6/26/15 2:05pm
  Romer is like his magnum opus of delusion
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╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeKept Simple
6/26/15 1:55pm
Worse: he’s a Kinja commenter that’s been let out of the grays.
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  blameitonthecroutons goodbye tour╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
  6/26/15 1:59pm
  possible Kinja handles:
  
  BenchDaddy
  
  BonerUnderTheseRobes
  
  JowlesofFreedom69
  
  RuthBaderShesthePittsberg
  
  ClarenceThomasIsMyBlackFriend
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  ThePriceisWrongblameitonthecroutons goodbye tour
  6/26/15 2:07pm
  I shall add
  
  VertigonellV
  
  askjlaksdjlkjasd
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gilbertkittensKept Simple
6/26/15 1:55pm
I think the final word on Scalia’s supposed “brilliance” is simply that if he was actually smart, he would probably be right every once in a while. Also, “applesauce”? A food for children and the senile.
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  stacyinbeangilbertkittens
  6/26/15 2:16pm
  Dude. There is no need to speak ill of applesauce.
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  lunchcomagilbertkittens
  6/26/15 2:25pm
  Leave applesauce alone. It is also a delicious treat for the ill and the hungover.
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TheHoopoeKept Simple
6/26/15 1:57pm
Thank you. This lionizing of his wit and intelligence is baffling. He’s small minded , hypocritical and of poor character. He’s unfit for duty. I wouldnt say that about any of the other judges, maybe Clarence Thomas , maybe. If Scalia wants to go on fox news he should just quit the bench instead of auditioning from it.
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  SuarezHambriento2TheHoopoe
  6/26/15 2:01pm
  I think Thomas is worse, but this is like arguing over the best rock group: multiple answers are defensible.
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  TheHoopoeSuarezHambriento2
  6/26/15 2:04pm
  Ha it took me a while to realize you meant music. My first instinct was geology.
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MockingbirdHillKept Simple
6/26/15 2:23pm
This man is amoral (Should’ve recused himself from Bush v. Gore because his SON worked for the Bush attorneys), unbalanced (he appears to make his decisions solely from emotional places) and hypocritical (decries activist judges but makes up the flimsiest legal arguments and laws out of whole cloth when it suits him). I am glad that he is the main voice for dissent because when these cases are reviewed throughout history, Scalia will be there, front and center, loudly and vociferously and insultingly arguing for the wrong side of history, of morality, of sane jurisprudence. He will be remembered correctly as a burning tire fire, and one of the worst ever to sit in the chair.
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  abc123MockingbirdHill
  6/26/15 3:02pm
  1000 times, this.
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  MissEdithSpeaksOutOfTurnMockingbirdHill
  6/26/15 5:19pm
  Given that his wife is an anti-choice activist tied to CPCs, I think he should recuse himself from any abortion case.
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Cherith CutestoryKept Simple
6/26/15 1:58pm
It goes to show how horrible most legal writing is that his writing is considered so wonderful. Because you are right. It really, genuinely is not. And you have to wonder if any of these people have ever actually heard something humorous before. Because he isn’t really that funny.

And it’s the old-school liberal think of feeling the need to respect and laud someone with whom you staunchly disagree with.
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  BrooksRobinsonsGloveCherith Cutestory
  6/26/15 3:08pm
  People need to accept that fact that smart people disagree with them. I don’t agree with a thing that he says. But I think he is smarter than every single person commenting here (except for me, naturally).
  
  George Will is 100 times worse and he is also smart. As it that Charles Krautthmer or whatever his name is.
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  Cherith CutestoryBrooksRobinsonsGlove
  6/26/15 3:11pm
  There are many intelligent people who disagree with me. In fact, anyone with any intelligence doesn’t agree with a word I say.
  
  There is a difference between accepting intelligent people on the other side and assuming non-sensical ranting is intelligent just because it is done adamantly and from the bench.
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pem34Kept Simple
6/26/15 2:15pm
I have this discussion with people a lot and it basically comes down to what you think SCOTUS’ role is and/or should be.

Scalia has an excellent “legal” mind - anyone who has had the pleasure of going to law school or taking classes in legal writing or thinking probably will concede this to a degree. He goes overboard and is an ass about it b/c he has a position that makes him one of the most powerful people in the world and pays him for life and is probably a jerk IRL.

His dissent in Burwell was on point - but its a “right string, wrong yo yo” situation. The law was poorly worded and as a whole the ACA was poorly constructed and thought about by the the people that wrote it. That doesn’t mean its a bad idea or that its not the right thing to do, it means sloppy writing and probably a lack of a competent editor.

If you believe SCOTUS’ job is to make the “right” decision based on morality and need and what is probably in the best interests, you probably will find yourself disagreeing with Scalia a lot. If you believe SCOTUS should operate to interpret the laws as they are written, you probably agree with Scalia more often.

TL; DR Scalia thinks like an appellate judge (strictly interpreting what is in front of him without considering the broader impact b/c he believes that is not his responsibility) and not (in my opinion) like a Justice who should probably take a totality approach to the law, circumstances, underlying politics, and “best interests” approach. considering the stakes at that level (although I concede that is probably no the intent behind the court).
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  TheJuiceShouldBeLoosepem34
  6/26/15 2:41pm
  But laws are always, ALWAYS about the intent when they were created.
  
  Scalia willfully ignores this unless he’s channeling the Founding Fathers’ take on the Constitution (who, you know, we can’t ask the FFs directly).
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  SabrinaQpem34
  6/26/15 2:50pm
  Scalia thinks like an appellate judge
  
  Thank you! I’ve been struggling to find a way to express my problem with Scalia’s whole philosophy and this nails it.
  
  Like Roberts asked today, “Who do we think we are”? You’re SCOTUS justices, darn it! SCOTUS has made sweeping decisions from day one. Some of them define turning points in US History. Brown. Loving. And so on. They’re not a bug, they’re a feature.
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Andrew MochulskyKept Simple
6/26/15 1:59pm
Many people that disagree with Scalia but appreciate his blustery writing are the legal equivalent of people that like the art of cinema but appreciate The Room.
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  Cherith CutestoryAndrew Mochulsky
  6/26/15 2:00pm
  Fucking hipsters.
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92BuickLeSabreKept Simple
6/26/15 2:08pm
Yes! Thank you! I never, never understand the praise for Scalia. He is not clever, principled, or a particularly impressive legal scholar. He is a petulant right-wing moralizing crank who only stands out because no one else has the bad form to be as civically disrespectful as he is from the Nation’s Highest Bench.
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HaighaKept Simple
6/26/15 2:04pm
Really, his intellectual “gift” is simply in overlooking his own massive inconsistancies. I suppse, as the years have gone on, that’s required more and more mental energy. Maybe he just can’t keep his blood sugar high enough to avoid being cranky.
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  queenoftheforestHaigha
  6/26/15 2:49pm
  Hence the applesauce.
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