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BingoBoingo: Hussein as a political construct *needed* enshrined on court, preferably in
Scalia's seat. Twas why there was no big push to vacancy fill.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 01:55:31; asciilifeform: 'you got due process, now stfu and sizzle in the electric chair' --
scalia assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 20:15:45; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this is where
scalia's magical formula comes into play
mircea_popescu: "
Scalia was found with a pillow over his head wearing unwrinkled pajamas (archived). " o.O
assbot: Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin
Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch - San Antonio Express-News ... (
http://bit.ly/1QexhnS )
pete_dushenski: ^in which
scalia pulls the mask off bahamas' incompetent ruse.
pete_dushenski: "Abigail Fisher graduated two years ago from Louisiana State University instead, but the court was warned that the number of minority students on US college campuses could “plummet” if her appeal against UT is successful – something
Scalia suggested could be no bad thing."
pete_dushenski: "The comments by Antonin
Scalia came as conservatives on the court gave a sympathetic hearing to a white student who claims she was deprived of a place at the University of Texas due to her race."
decimation: actually
scalia threatened the nsa along those lines
decimation: and the peak of 'libertarian' achievement is to place someone like
scalia on the court to old-man rant about what's going wrong
decimation: ironically
scalia himself is reduced to mocking the text too
mircea_popescu:
Scalia cuts him off: “Well, religious beliefs aren’t reasonable. I mean, religious beliefs are categorical. You know, it’s … God tells you. It’s not a matter of being reasonable.” He looks amazed. “God, be reasonable?”
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mircea_popescu: “It is not the role of this court to identify and plug loopholes,”
Scalia wrote. “It is the role of good lawyers to identify and exploit them, and the role of Congress to eliminate them if it wishes.” << i could see
scalia as bitcoin chief justice.
assbot: How
Scalia Helped Legalize Gay Marriage in Pennsylvania - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Mats_cd03: "Adversarial system"? Who are you,
Scalia?
mircea_popescu: from the "i'm a derp on the internet hear me roar" dept : "It is often noted that Barack Obama is an expert on constitutional law. That is better than the alternative, but it doesn't follow from that credential that he has a sound (or even benign) philosophical understanding of the constitution. Obama's credentials as a constitutional lawyer pale compared to those of Justice Antonin
Scalia, for instance, and
Scalia's p
Mats_cd03: it has been an adversarial judicial system its entire existence...
scalia agrees on this account
dub: s/
scalia/e-bob and it makes perfect sense
ThickAsThieves: i think what
scalia is saying is, if homosexuals want a "real" win, it needs to be on grounds good enough that he has no argument worth dissenting over
mircea_popescu: dub
scalia is famous for having dissented a while back when they struck down the no fags in texas laws
ozbot: The Best (or Worst) Lines From
Scalia's Angry Dissent on the Supreme Court's Defense of Marriage Act