Scalia was an intellectual phony: Can we please stop calling him a brilliant jurist?

PostmodernProphet said:
who is Paul Campos and why should we give a fuck what his opinion of Scalia is.....compared to Campos, Scalia WAS a brilliant jurist......and probably would have been a better journalist as well......
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He is a hack who practiced law for about a year, then realized he sucked at it, so he went to teach at the University of Colorado
 
christiefan915 said:
"Over and over during Scalia’s three decades on the Supreme Court, if one of his cherished interpretive principles got in the way of his political preferences, that principle got thrown overboard in a New York minute."

Your argument sucks. Unless YOU argued a case in front of SCOTUS, talked to Scalia or met him, your opinions are no different from the author's. You are doing exactly what the author is saying Scalia did, waffling because you don't like what was written. You're stooping to ad homs just like Scalia did in some of his dissents. And you are too dumb to understand how foolish you appear for doing so.
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But when even his greatest of opponents on the court say he was brilliant... you side with a nut like Campos over them? Is it because Campos tells you what you want to hear?
 
Now back to the thread topic... Christie bases her claims that Scalia wasn't brilliant off of some hack professor at CU. Yet those that actually served on the court with Scalia state otherwise. Even his most frequent of opponents.
 
NOVA said:
Very eloquent I would say.... exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech....legislating from the bench and finding imaginary rights where none
exist requires a certain about of incoherent logic and that needed to be pointed out.
Akin to finding the freedom to kill unborn infants on demand hiding under the guise of privacy.....a stunning find that would have Madison and Jefferson gaping with open mouths.....

Yes, who ever would think that that intimacy and spirituality were freedoms in the context of same sex marriage hiding in the Constitution....certainly not the
"Founding Fathers"......the majority opinion was a coup d'état accomplished by bastardizing and corrupting the purpose and meaning of what they wrote so long ago....

Yes....eloquent is way I would describe it.....
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:palm: This was your comment: "I looked through the dissenting opinions and saw no lashing out at anyone nor any insults by Scalia...."

Everything I posed from just one dissent was Scalia having a hissy fit and lashing out at those on the court who had the majority opinion. Only you would try to fluff it off as simply being eloquent.
 
Superfreak said:
He is a hack who practiced law for about a year, then realized he sucked at it, so he went to teach at the University of Colorado
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I'm not surprised you'd criticize a teacher, as if teaching isn't an honorable career.

You guys seem pretty threatened by the fact that everybody didn't worship Scalia like you did.
 
Superfreak said:
Now back to the thread topic... Christie bases her claims that Scalia wasn't brilliant off of some hack professor at CU. Yet those that actually served on the court with Scalia state otherwise. Even his most frequent of opponents.
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What claim is that, moron? I said I enjoyed reading his viewpoint because I never saw any exceptional brilliance in Scalia either. I didn't try to persuade people to agree.

You seem awfully touchy that everybody isn't kneeling to worship at the altar of Scalia.
 
christiefan915 said:
You're using argumentum ad populum here. Scalia would disapprove.
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An argument that concludes a proposition is true because most people believe it ?

Funny.....I think the same thing when I read all the arguments on global warming or climate change or whatever label is being used now....
 
NOVA said:
An argument that concludes a proposition is true because most people believe it ?

Funny.....I think the same thing when I read all the arguments on global warming or climate change or whatever label is being used now....
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I have zero interest in global climate change so I wouldn't know.
 
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