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…
Tag: Guantánamo
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…
If it walks like a kangaroo
In the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has an article on Guantánamo that tries very hard to sound even-handed, pumping only slightly for a proposal from Georgetown law professor and former Clinton Administration official Neal Katyal and Harvard law professor and former Bush Administration official Jack Goldsmith, which “is attracting a great deal of attention in…