Seriously! Yeah, I know I’ve said a lot of mean things about Ramesh in the past—because, well, not to toot my own horn or anything, but they don’t call me “Mr. Truth” for nothing—but recently he wrote a column, Not even the Supreme Court can make Congress do its job, which, I’m pretty sure, is…
Tag: Justice Scalia
The United States Supreme Court is dancing, dancing, dancing. The United States Supreme Court is dancing, dancing on Nino Scalia’s grave.
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Bostock v. Clayton County can be described as “the war of the textualists” in that both the majority opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch extending federal prohibition of job discrimination to non-hetero folk and the “stinging” (I guess, because I haven’t read them) dissents by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel…
Yo, Clarence Thomas! God is the searcher of all hearts, not you!
Clarence Thomas, eagerly accepting the role of Supreme Court curmudgeon in chief now that Nino Scalia has cashed in his chips, eagerly accused six of his colleagues of cowardice—or perhaps believing in “abortion rights”—when only Justices Gorsuch and Alioto would join him in voting to hear appeals of cases that involved the use of Medicaid…
Justice Scalia: Underappreciated Fourth Amendment Defender. For Rich People.
When Old Man Scalia kicked the bucket, the Cato Institute’s Jonathan Blank honored him with a flattering post, “Justice Scalia: Underappreciated Fourth Amendment Defender”: “In addition to his many judicial bona fides, Justice Antonin Scalia was an underappreciated defender of the Fourth Amendment. With his typical thoroughness and deep textualism that reshaped American judging, the…
Anthony Kennedy: Wasn’t he the guy who appointed George Bush president of the United States?
Yes, he was. Anthony Kennedy was one of the unholy five justices so damned afraid Al Gore might have actually carried the state of Florida, as he carried the nation by a plurality of almost half a million votes, that they rammed through Curious George’s election the Constitution be damned. “Great cases, like hard cases,…
Justice Scalia, very big, very fat liar REVISITED
Want to read words of praise for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia by a renowned liberal legal scholar? Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, has just the article for you, praising both Nino’s integrity and his “extraordinary life-loving laugh.” Want to read an ill-tempered diatribe by a…
El Nino, not that innocent
De mortuis nil nisi bonum? Not at this site, fella.1 The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was a conservative hero, but, to my mind, at least, he was vastly over-rated, particularly in his own mind. To begin with, I will not be the first to point out that Nino was one of the infamous…
The snark that would not die
Not if I can help it, anyway. I recently posted a comment at the New Republic, regarding an article that Martha Nussbaum had written on Roger Williams, a commented that suggested, among other things, that I hoped I would live long enough to see Martha, Richard Posner, and Justice Scalia fighting it out with socks…
Justice Scalia, very big, very fat liar
In his already infamous dissent in Boumedienne v. Bush, Justice Scalia released a massive volley of palpable falsehoods, including this one: “At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.” Nino has an obsession with “the battlefield.” His use of “returned” is intended to make us believe that…