Justice Scalia has passed

[superunknown23]

If those are all minor accomplishments "in your opinion," then

Thurgood Marshall's biggest legal accomplishments were as a lawyer, not a supreme court justice. As a justice, Scalia is far more influential. O'Connor has a couple of major opinions (Casey and Grutter), but Scalia's catalog is far more impressive. He wrote opinions that will be part of the law school canon for generations.

Scalia is best known for his dissents. He lost a lot and issued plenty of angry dissents.
His influence was all in rhetoric and bombast. His biggest weakness was in failing to persuade his colleagues to go along with him, as we've seen in the last few years. He couldn't move the needle in his Holy Grail (abortion), then gay marriage and even affirmative action. Social issues were his main focus, yet he couldn't stop the progress. His legacy is all in criminal justice and political shyt (police search and seizure, death penalty, Bush v Gore, campaign financing). Even most of those rulings are in danger of being overturned now.
For someone who's been on the bench for almost 30 years, he has a very short list of accomplishments in settled laws.

 

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[GzUp]

So will Obama appoint someone?

 

[Edub]

If those are all minor accomplishments "in your opinion," then

Thurgood Marshall's biggest legal accomplishments were as a lawyer, not a supreme court justice. As a justice, Scalia is far more influential. O'Connor has a couple of major opinions (Casey and Grutter), but Scalia's catalog is far more impressive. He wrote opinions that will be part of the law school canon for generations.

He wrote law that would allow our society to further erode morally...while many disguise it as there love of separation of church and state, its merely a scheme to relax moral standards for corporate interests...and he served to relax those standards...this created a climate that allowed Wall Street to run wild , lobbyist to control government, and media to go unchecked on its standards towards our youth. Basically lowering societal standards to increase bottom lines and revenue statements...and then personally investing income into those companies and entities that would benefit most from this erosion. Reagan, Bush and high placed republicans all eroded social standards and directly invested in corporates entities that stood to benefit from the erosion financially. His influence, if any at all, was to our detriment. Oconnor and Marshall did more good for society just in lending their opinion and judgement than Scalia did biased administratively ...facts.

 

[GzUp]

It is interesting how so many people in this thread want Obama to nominate a justice based on their race, gender, ethnicity, etc and not qualifications.

All liberals care about is identity politics.

republicans are the same way.

 

[88m3]

smh lol

 

[superunknown23]

Let's hope this controversy remains red hot all the way til November. Republicans used beat democrats on social issues, now they try to avoid mentioning them (abortion, gay marriage, etc). Making this election about social issues plays right into the hands of Obama. Nominating a well-qualified minority and campaigning for him/her should help increase turnout (republicans are counting on a sharp decrease without Obama on the ballot).
The higher the turnout, the better for democrats.

republicans are the same way.

Identity politics was all good when it was driving GOP wins from 1968 thru 2004

 

[GzUp]

Why do people hate him so much?.. I need to know so when I tell people that I don't like him I have proof.

 

[无名的]

If GOP loses upcoming election, do they propose we wait another 4 years to nominate?

 

[superunknown23]

If GOP loses upcoming election, do they propose we wait another 4 years to nominate?

They'll probably lose the Senate too... They're defending 24 seats, including 6 in states that Obama won twice (democrats barely have 10 to defend, most in deep blue states).
Democrats only need to pick up 4 seats to regain the Senate.

 

[RickyGQ]

Obama Nominates Abortion Doctor to Replace Scalia on Supreme Court

 

[714562]

Scalia is best known for his dissents. He lost a lot and issued plenty of angry dissents.
His influence was all in rhetoric and bombast. His biggest weakness was in failing to persuade his colleagues to go along with him, as we've seen in the last few years. He couldn't move the needle in his Holy Grail (abortion), then gay marriage and even affirmative action. Social issues were his main focus, yet he couldn't stop the progress. His legacy is all in criminal justice and political shyt (police search and seizure, death penalty, Bush v Gore, campaign financing). Even most of those rulings are in danger of being overturned now.
For someone who's been on the bench for almost 30 years, he has a very short list of accomplishments in settled laws.

Scalia is best known to LIBERALS for his dissents because they hate him. No, he does not have a "very short list of a accomplishments in settled laws." You just don't know his accomplishments in settled laws.

 

[714562]

He wrote law that would allow our society to further erode morally...while many disguise it as there love of separation of church and state, its merely a scheme to relax moral standards for corporate interests...and he served to relax those standards...this created a climate that allowed Wall Street to run wild , lobbyist to control government, and media to go unchecked on its standards towards our youth. Basically lowering societal standards to increase bottom lines and revenue statements...and then personally investing income into those companies and entities that would benefit most from this erosion. Reagan, Bush and high placed republicans all eroded social standards and directly invested in corporates entities that stood to benefit from the erosion financially. His influence, if any at all, was to our detriment. Oconnor and Marshall did more good for society just in lending their opinion and judgement than Scalia did biased administratively ...facts.

"Facts?" Literally nothing you said is a fact. When did Scalia "write law" to "increase corporate bottom lines?" Show me when. Do you actually know that a judge does?

It sounds like you're just taking generic talking points about Ronald Reagan and applying them to Antonin Scalia. It's laughable that you think Scalia, the biggest moralizer on the court, sought to "lower moral standards."

 

[superunknown23]

Scalia is best known to LIBERALS for his dissents because they hate him. No, he does not have a "very short list of a accomplishments in settled laws." You just don't know his accomplishments in settled laws.

The fukk you're talking about? I just listed them, idiot.
He was always a social ideologue with a strong religious bent, yet he couldn't succeed in changing the social dynamic on the issues that he cared most. The Casey case was his biggest loss
Citizens United, Heller and even the death penalty will be on the chopping block very soon if a liberal takes his place. That would be the complete erasure of his legacy in terms of settled laws.
His dissents will live on, which is quite fitting for such a retrograde judge.

 

[714562]

The fukk you're talking about? I just listed them, idiot.
He was always a social ideologue with a strong religious bent, yet he couldn't succeed in changing the social dynamic on the issues that he cared most.
Citizens United, Heller and even the death penalty will be on the chopping black very soon if a liberal takes his place. That would be the complete erasure of his legacy in terms of settled laws.

Except those dissents are not his major accomplishments and NOT what he will be known for. I listed some of his major accomplishments on the first page of this thread.

http://www.thecoli.com/posts/17756194/

The fact that you only know him through his dissents doesn't mean that those dissents are his major accomplishments.

The fact that you treat Citizens United v. FEC as an accomplishment of Scalia's is very telling, considering Antonin Scalia didn't write the majority opinion in that case. Anthony Kennedy did.