Supreme court justice Antonin Scalia dies: legal and political worlds react

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Interesting article...

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/18/scalia_was_an_intellectual_phony_can_we_please_stop_calling_him_a_brilliant_jurist/

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

No one wants to disrespect the dead. But we disrespect the truth to hail his legal mind and phony, grand principles

One of Scalia’s many obnoxious qualities as a jurist was his remarkably pompous, pedantic, and obsessive insistence that the legal principles he (supposedly) preferred – textualism in statutory interpretation, originalism when reading the Constitution, and judicial restraint when dealing with democratically-enacted legal rules – were not merely his preferences, but simply “the law.”

Given that those principles are and always have been controversial among American judges, lawyers, and politicians, insisting that they ought to control judicial interpretation as a matter of definition makes about as much sense as arguing for the desirability of, say, a particular income tax rate by claiming that the advocate’s preferred rate simply is the “true” rate (in other words it’s a nonsensical argument on its face).
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Scalia could have been poisoned: forensic pathologist

Lethal poisoning could have left Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s body in virtually the same condition in which it was found, a top forensic pathologist told The Post on Wednesday.

“It would look like he’s asleep. It doesn’t show anything on the body,” said Dr. Michael Baden, who spent 25 years in the city’s chief Medical Examiner’s Office.

Still, Baden stressed that natural causes was a plausible explanation.
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http://nypost.com/2016/02/18/scalia-could-have-been-poisoned-forensics-pathologist/
 
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Why Some People Think Scalia Was Murdered

[video]http://video.beforeitsnews.com/why-some-people-think-scalia-was-murdered_55309dfff.html[/video]
 
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For those interested, here is the brilliant homily at the funeral Mass for Justice Antonin Scalia. Apols for mobile url, but on a phone. The homily itself starts at 2:25, so skip the formalities.
 
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Arthur said:
ah, yes, my precious. we'll see one day. we'll see.
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Arthur said:
for randhir (and some others, evidently) anything that doesn't fit his worldview is a lie. how wonderful to have such certain access to truth. life is very simple for him.
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Arthur said:
Hehe. Very good. It's abundantly clear now that when I heard this "80 year precendent" thingie mentioned by someone in a CNN interview shortly after Scalia's death that they were not correct. Ah well. I stand corrected. Thanks.
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"Abundantly clear now" Haha.. It was abundantly clear ten days ago. But it was enjoyable watching you make a fool of yourself. Again.
 
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