Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Oct 25 2022 10:18am)

https://lapa.princeton.edu/content/justice-contradictions-antonin-scalia-and-politics-disruption

Literally takes two seconds to google scathing critiques from heavy hitters in the law field on Scalia's contradictions.

He was notorious for it and the fact that you aren't even aware of it shows how little you actually know about the criticisms of the court. Scalia being chalk full of contradictions in his opinions is like entry level material on the subject as far as the modern supreme court goes.

Almost like you're just insanely dishonest or something.

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From Yale University Press: "Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalia’s complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptive public intellectual. The left saw Scalia as an unscrupulous foe who amplified his judicial role with scathing dissents and outrageous public comments. The right viewed him as a rare principled justice committed to neutral tools of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Hasen provides a more nuanced perspective, demonstrating how Scalia was crucial to reshaping jurisprudence on issues from abortion to gun rights to separation of powers. A jumble of contradictions, Scalia promised neutral tools to legitimize the Supreme Court, but his jurisprudence and confrontational style moved the Court to the right, alienated potential allies, and helped to delegitimize the institution he was trying to save."

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Oct 25 2022 12:00am)

Scalia was an incredibly blatant hack that regularly contradicted himself to hurt democrats and help republican presidents. It's really telling how intellectually bankrupt modern conservatism is that they hold him up as a unique talent.

Quote (bogie160 @ Oct 25 2022 01:17pm)

Synopsis you quoted.

Versus...

Own goal.

Two ad hominem attacks, zero substantive critiques of DC v Heller. Do we want to make it three?

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Oct 25 2022 01:41pm)

You realize influential is not the same as consistent or good right?

I mean, you speak English, that shouldn't have been something you missed.

Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 25 2022 02:15pm)

this mainstream narrative about Scalia is rather silly. Scalia made the mistake of claiming that through his process that he'd be able to impartially decide cases. it was a standard he never lived up to because it's not really possible to do what he claimed he could do. but overall he was no worse really than any other justice in his era when it came to inconsistencies.

Quote (JohnnyMcCoy @ 25 Oct 2022 21:27)

fenderp triggered again

Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 25 2022 12:10pm)

If we made it so that you could no longer buy a gun in the us, so that you had to sell your guns back to the govt by law, and made it a life sentence to even be found in possession with a gun we'd still have to wait about 100 years before this is stopped.

we have more guns than people.

australia famous for it's gun buyback and firearm banning has a rate of about 15 guns per 100 people. even after the 1997 reform laws this hasn't fluctuated all that much. in the usa we have about 100 guns per 100 citizens, we dont have licenses to own and registration to even track them or where they are.

it's an issue i truly dont see a noteworthy fix to. we can do things to try and reduce the severity of these events, but we can't stop it at all. not legally or even logically. we can do things to make it worse of course, and have.

Quote (fender @ Oct 26 2022 09:07am)

texas being texas:

https://i.imgur.com/ApWOuUe.png



i just love how you're not smart enough to see the irony of that post, lol. coming to my thread exclusively to make a personal comment, without even the pretence of addressing the topic, has to be the definition of butthurt.

Quote (addone @ 25 Oct 2022 23:06)

Yes 79% = 62.5% nice source much statistics, wow credibility

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