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…
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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…
Antonin Scalia, my hero for a day
I’ve often made fun of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, because he deserved it. Well, today he deserves my praise, and the praise of every other American, for his brilliant defense of the Fourth Amendment, unfortunately in a dissent, protesting the Court’s decision to allow states to take DNA samples from anyone arrested for a…
Alan Vanneman, percipience personified, when not entirely out to lunch
Or asleep at the wheel. You’d think that a dude who has been monitoring the mouth and brain of Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia as assiduously as I have might have noticed that El Nino published a book last month. But I didn’t. The New York Times, which I also monitor rather assiduously, was…
Alan Vanneman, Percipience Personified
Mere hours ago, I wrote, of Supreme Court Justice Antonine Scalia’s furious, even frumious, dissent in Arizona v. United States, “One can even hope—and this is probably nonsense, and will probably be exposed as nonsense at 10 o’clock this morning—that his fulmination was sparked in part by frustration over his brethren’s refusal to overturn the…
The Washington Post surprises me
Since I’ve gone out of my way to make fun of the Washington Post on numerous occasions, I guess it’s only right for me to provide a little praise when praise is due. Well, here’s some praise: the Post’s recent editorial on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s gross and unseemly posturing was spot on. Although…
What about the severed heads, Nino? You forgot the severed heads!
Yes, Antonine “Don’t worry, I’m still an asshole” Scalia is, well, still an asshole. In his furious, and, therefore, terribly amusing, dissent in the Supreme Court’s recent decision, Arizona v. United States, overturning most but not all of Arizona’s noxious “illegal immigrants ain’t people” law, El Nino fulminated that Arizona’s citizens “feel themselves under siege…
Justice Scalia: Don’t worry, I’m still an asshole
Yes, in case you were worrying, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia is still an asshole. In the Court’s recent oral argument on Arizona’s xenophobic legislation mandating police harassment of foreign-looking folks, reported by Damon Root for Reason, Nino showed himself to be heartily xenophobic, with precisely zero patience with “people who have no…
You’re funny, Justice Scalia! You’re a funny man! You’re also a fat-assed, self-congratulatory liar, and a shitty constitutional scholar to boot!
Okay, is that enough persiflage for one headline? Sometimes El Nino gets it right, and the “liberals” (seriously “so-called” liberals, in my book) get it wrong, as in U.S. v. Comstock, in which only Justices Scalia and Thomas had the intelligence to argue that the federal government had no authority to imprison convicted sex offenders…