As a criminal defense lawyer I’m surprise at your opinion of Scalia. His “originalism” belief in the constitution actually joined and authored several decisions that gave protection to the accused. Even if he had to hold his nose at the same time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/antonin-scalia-death.html?_r=0
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Nah, he was the devil. He did hideous, hideous
things to poor people and to the bio-sphere.
Sometimes even the Devil does some things i might
agree with — Like, i remember William F Buckley liked
peanut butter. He wrote a column on it. And i agreed with him 🙂
…We just have fundamentally different views of the “law”
and where it comes from and what it is, W. I agree
with the thoughts below. You have a different view.
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“In practice legal mythology is primarily directed at obscuring
the bitter struggle between the classes and at articulating in
consciousness the view that law is unaligned with any interests…
…law can be characterized in its modern period, by the
conscious camouflaging of interests…expressing in human
relationships on one hand, while hiding its relation to
economics institutions on the other…legal theorists believe
‘will’, rather than material conditions to be the basis of law. …
the state is the political form through which the ruling class
controls and mediates class antagonisms…..law is fundamentally
class law….. M.E. Tigar (“radical lawyers”)
“The law is therefore a regulation of equality among unequals.
For those who believe the official slogans of the ruling class
— that we are a government of laws and not men,
and that our system guarantees equal protection —
Anatole France once answered by describing how
“the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well
as the poor from sleeping under the bridge.” …the law is an
expression of political ideology and propaganda as well as
an instrument of oppression….”
M.E. Tigar (radical lawyers)
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