Lord knows I didn't always agree with his judicial opinions but he was a great writer and advocate of the Constitution. One of us has passed; light up a bowl in remembrance.
Pipe Smoker Antonin Scalia has died
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i am canadian but i do realize a great man has passed on - sorry for your american loss.
PS - who gets that pipe ?????????????????????????????????
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Yes, again, and + infinity. What a great man. He did give up pipe smoking a while back, but he was one of us for a while.
I believe he thrived in opposition, and chose some of his interns based on their leanings contrary to his. His endeavor to seize upon 18th Century historical culture to interpret the Constitution was seized upon by one polar end of the political spectrum because it advanced their ends, but his philosophical leanings were much more imaginative, tentative, and dependent on being balanced by strong opposition. He was both brilliant and a bit of a primitive, he of the nine children. I like him as a scholar and a writer, but not as a Supreme Court Justice. Randy Newman, the sardonic song writer, refers in one of his songs to the Supreme Court having two of the tightest assed Italians in history, one of which was Scalia. RIP.
Indeed. A man who saw how the ages work against truth, and the vitality of it must be maintained...
Would love to know what he smoked, to burn one for him.
Thank you for the piping pix, Al and Jerwynn.
Eric, be kind. A great man has passed.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
He was a man of exceptional intellect and superb wit. And he loved the Constitution of the United States. (What more could any citizen of the United States want from a U.S. Supreme Court Justice?)
Tony Scalia provided balance to the Supreme Court and that alone was a life well spent.
I mourn his death.
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Eric, be kind. A great man has passed.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
He was a man of exceptional intellect and superb wit. And he loved the Constitution of the United States. (What more could any citizen of the United States want from a U.S. Supreme Court Justice?)
Tony Scalia provided balance to the Supreme Court and that alone was a life well spent.
I mourn his death.
Fnord
http://injo.com/2016/02/537426-20-badass-quotes-from-late-justice-antonin-scalia-show-you-what-a-colorful-character-he-was/
A quick snapshot of his mind.
A quick snapshot of his mind.
America was a better place with Scalia on the bench. RIP.
Quote from the link above.
On Constitutional Flexibility
Quote from the link above.
On Constitutional Flexibility
Scalia's legal doctrine was at best schizophrenic, at worst he proved the theory of indeterminacy in law. He would say you can't cite a dictionary in one opinion and cite the same dictionary in another if it suited him. Also, he did an enormous amount of damage to individual rights when compared to the police power of the state. Just enormous. Even handed some of that power to private interests (NDAA, Privatisation of core government functions). But he was a good writer, And he used to smoke a pipe (I don't know if he still did - met him about a decade ago and hadn't been able to figure that out). And he was a really funny and personable guy in person with a sharp and fast wit. And I mean that, a really nice guy. We forget how to see people with whom we disagree on fundamental issues in this day of sound bites and Facebook posts as people sometimes. That is what I really learned from him - I genuinely liked him even though we definitely didn't agree on a lot of things. I am sorry that he passed away.
As with others, I was often not happy with his positions on legal matters, but he dedicated his life to the law and to what he believed in, and for that I admire him, pipe smoker or not. My condolences to his family and his friends. It is important to remember that he counted Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who could not be more diametrically opposed on most matters, as one of his "buddies." It seems that he (and she) were able to separate their views on issues from their view of the individual and respect each other despite their fundamental differences. Certainly something that I, and probably others, could stand to bear in mind every once in a while.
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