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Ummm, the Supreme Court justices supervise Circuit Court judges. Many of us here aren’t in love with our bosses. Do they teach civics in school anymore?
Posner and Scalia's feud is largely based on some conflicting core beliefs about judging, according to FedSoc Blog. Posner emphasizes the importance of making pragmatic legal opinions that apply to the real world and criticizes Scalia for following legal text too closely while neglecting practical consequences.
Scalia is a proponent of the originalism method for judging cases, based on the view that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning at the time of enactment. "I ... disagree with Justice Scalia's philosophy of originalism," Posner said in the interview.
Between those two philosophies, one makes a lot more sense to me. As in 'words have meanings' and the meanings of words in laws and constitutions should remain precisely the same as when they were adopted. If a change is needed, it should be made by the legislative or amendment process and not imposed by judges.
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Lawyers are PAID to lie... thats what they do..
I find the headline to be backward. Justice Antonin Scalia is much more renowned that some lower court functionary.
Posner is something of a jerk at times. He is pro-abortion, pro-drugs, anti-privacy, and sees or saw hyperlinks to newspaper stories as violations of copyright.
“He clerked for (far left liberal) Justice William J. Brennan, then he went on to work in the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, under (far left liberal) Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall.”
“Today, although generally viewed as to the right in academia, Posner’s pragmatism, his qualified moral relativism and moral skepticism, and his affection for the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche set him apart from most American conservatives. As a judge, Posner’s rulings have always placed him on the moderate-to-liberal wing of the Republican Party, where he has become more isolated over time.”
Posner is an out and out socialist lib appointed by Jimmah Carter and is constantly praised by the lib main stream media,
