Saturday, February 20, 2016

2016-02-18 US Supreme Court Justice Scalia - the death of an icon of judicial corruption...

2016-02-18 US Supreme Court Justice Scalia - the death of an icon of judicial corruption...
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Great review from Tikkun:
"Scalia played a prominent role in introducing extremist and blatantly racist ideas, undermined democracy not only by helping overcome the majority vote for Al Gore by finding justification for giving the presidency to George W. Bush but also by overturning the decisions of democratic elected Congressional mandates restricting the role of money in politics (the infamous Citizens’ United decision) and dismantling key sections of the Voting Rights legislation that had been the most concrete accomplishment of the Civil Rights movement (thereby allowing southern states to rush in, as they have done, to create significant obstacles to voting for many people of color). His impact on our society was overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) hurtful to the poor and the powerless."
...there is nothing special that titles bestow--even a Supreme Court Justice can be a bigot, and there is no…
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Joseph Zernik One hundred years from now, if the planet is still here and populated by intelligent life, Scalia's death on a quail hunting vacation at Pointdexter's, with various theories on who paid for the vacation, would be considered an anecdote, showing the depth of the corruption of SCOTUS in our period. Anyway, it is a great finale for a corrupt justice... Too bad there is no adequate pic, like David's The Death of Marat, another death the came to symbolize its period... https://upload.wikimedia.org/.../Jacques-Louis_David_-_La...

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