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He really doesn, he and Scalia were the reliable crazy uncles of the court. Looks like Alito is trying to take up Scalia's mantle. I sear to god if Thomas had t
by burnte 6y ago
He really doesn, he and Scalia were the reliable crazy uncles of the court. Looks like Alito is trying to take up Scalia's mantle. I sear to god if Thomas had to rule on a runaway slave he'd rule for the slaveholder.
- ncallaway 6y agoI don't agree with this. I _hated_ Scalia while he was on the bench. I fundamentally disagreed with him on a significant amount of his opinions. Their actual opinions though are of such a different quality to me. Scalia's opinions I could absolutely follow the logic, and at times I found myself sometimes dispairing as I became convinced he might be right on an issue. Essentially, Scalia's logic usually felt on point to me, we just had deep axiomatic differences in how the law should operate and how the constitution should be applied to laws. Thomas, though, I sometimes have a hard time understanding the argument he's presenting, and sometimes have a "how do you even believe that" reaction to his opinions. Again, I think I disagreed strongly with Scalia opinions about as often as I do Thomas opinions, I just think they were for very different reasons.
- whymauri 6y ago++ I almost always disagreed with Scalia, but he was a master legal mind in his written opinions. Like, they're not even comparable to Thomas or Kavanaugh, IMO.
- burnte 6y agoI agree Scalia wrote very tight opinions, but his personal biases were in such intense conflict with the actual constitution that the internal consistency just dosn't make it fly for me. But I see your point.