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Calling Scalia âbrilliantâ should nullify a Democrat candidate running for President.
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I canât see it being applied to you.
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citizens united has been a plague on this country. scalia was in the vanguard. the man had become a political hack over the last several years, often including verbatim fox talking points into his ramblings. he was no longer faithfully doing the job he had sworn to do. so, no bernie, if he was ever brilliant, he had lost it, to the detriment of our country.
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Just as citing Kissinger as a mentor should.
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It certainly wasnât brilliant of him to claim that states had a right to incarcerate same sex couples for âsodomy.â
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Bernie, I know youâre only being magnanimous, butâŚ
Anyone referring to him as brilliant should be expected to produce evidence.
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Right about now, Scalia is saying hello to some old buddies of his: Saint Ronnie Reagan, Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, Jerry Falwell ⌠and his good old friend, Satan.
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Scaliaâs problem wasnât a lack of intelligence.
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No, it was lacking empathy.
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Bernie Sanders On Scalia: âI Differedâ With Him, But 'He Was Brilliantâ
I had the same feeling about the character Hannibal Lecter.
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Brilliant by the same definition Ted Cruz is called brilliant. The word has been stripped of any meaning.
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The worst and most evil humans frequently are brilliant. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Pinochet were all very smart.
So itâs not out of line to note that fact.
Note that Bernie didnât say that Scalia was a decent Human being.
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Brilliant like a nut, you mean, He could write well and by all accounts was very charming. He was catastrophically wrong in his legal thinking, which revolved around his dogged and wrongheaded insistence that the law is static. Itâs as wrongheaded as the naive rubes who insist that language is or should be static, that words never change their meaning. Law, like language, is organically bound to its time, place and culture.
So, other than being completely wrong at the core of all his legal thinking, brilliant.
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Bernie should clarify his statement, otherwise, Iâm perfectly willing to hold it against him.
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Scalia was a very smart man with very bad ideas and a great deal of power â which is a very dangerous combination. Iâm sure Bernie is as glad as the rest of us are that Scalia is no longer on the Court. His statement was gracious and appropriate given the circumstances.
I expect we will see Hillary express her condolences as well, if she has not already done so. Or perhaps her campaign will indicate that sheâs shared her condolences privately with his family, which would be perfectly appropriate too.
Obama has already offered his condolences, according to the White House, and apparently will have more to say soon. I hope none of the commenters here are overly shocked when he finds some nice things to say about Justice Scalia.
No one is under any obligation to like the guy, or his horrible version of âjurisprudenceâ any better just because heâs died. But when youâre President of the United States â or running to be President â and a Supreme Court Justice dies, you offer condolences, and find something positive to say, even if privately youâre rejoicing that the recently deceased person can do no more damage.
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In a nutshell, yes.
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Very nice post.
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Oddly enough, Justice Ginsburg thought the world of Scalia. She respected his intellect, they shared a love of opera, and dined and vacationed together.
RBG: Last night, my daughter and I got a prize from a womenâs intellectual property group, and Nino [Scalia] was in the video, saying his nice things about me. Heâs a very funny man. We both love opera. And we care about writing. His style is spicy, but we care about how we say it.
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