Quote (bogie160 @ Sep 19 2020 10:42am)
When liberal justices are creating arbitrary rights (or deleting rights) on a whim based on their most recent communion with the national unconscious, we can forgive Scalia for only being consistent 95% of the time. There are a handful of cases where I think Scalia pushed the envelope, but he was also the brightest legal mind with the strongest philosophical foundation for decades.
Scalia actively fought against his own opinions depending on which party was president.
Under Bush he regularly authored opinions expanding the executive, and actively tried to remove them under Obama.
Sometimes he actively looked at the understanding of the text at the time it passed, and other times he actively ignored it.
Scalia wasn't some bastion of intellectual consistency, or somebody with a great philosophical foundation. He's deified by the right because it was obviously not that lol. The right doesn't deify people who stand on principal, which is why Ron Paul is seen as a loon and Bernie is seen as a crackpot and Trump is the president. They deify people who move the goalposts when it's convenient and own the libs as a result.