College professor: Supreme Court Justice Scalia a ‘ranting old man’ & 'intolerant blowhard'

Campus Reform ^

[oliverdarcy]

A professor at the University of Colorado on Monday responded to the Supreme Court's landmark immigration ruling by dismissing Justice Antonin Scalia as a "ranting old man," in retribution for his conservative dissent.

Paul Campos, a professor of law at the University of Colorado - Boulder went on to suggest that "degeneracy" brought on by Scalia's old age, 65, had polluted his judgment.

"In his old age [he has] become an increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard: a pompous celebrant of his own virtue and rectitude, a purveyor of intemperate jeremiads against the degeneracy of the age, and now an author of hysterical diatribes against foreign invaders, who threaten all that is holy," wrote Campos in the op-ed published in the liberal web magazine Salon.com.

[This Just In]

“In his old age [he has] become an increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard: a pompous celebrant of his own virtue and rectitude, a purveyor of intemperate jeremiads against the degeneracy of the age, and now an author of hysterical diatribes against foreign invaders, who threaten all that is holy,”

Describes the prof. to a T.

[Perdogg]

Scalia is older than 65

[Uncle Slayton]

This “Professor Campos” must be fired!

[pallis]

Coming from a radically left blowhard who barely passes as competent at the University of Colorado, this drivel can be taken as a compliment by a legal genius like Justice Scalia.

[reg45]

That description is better suited to former President Carter.

[Dr. Thorne]

The meaningless always whine about the profound. Scalia’s name will resonate through American legal history while Professor Numbnuts will disappear and never be thought of again.

[Mouton]

Typical bio for a law school professor blowhard:
Paul Campos left a position with a Chicago law firm to begin his teaching career at Colorado Law School in 1990. As a scholar, he has focused on constitutional law and legal theory. His graduate studies in English literature, which culminated in a thesis on Shakespeare’s King Lear, provided him with rigorous training in literary theory that has been helpful in his current work in constitutional interpretation. He has written several well-regarded law review articles in this area, including “Against Constitutional Theory,” published in the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and “Advocacy in Scholarship,” published in the California Law Review. Both of these articles have been noted as major critiques of the political and normative orientation of current constitutional theory. Professor Campos’ regular column for the Rocky Mountain News (distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service), written for a general audience on political, social, and legal issues, has developed a considerable following. A packed house, drawn by his provocative take on a wide range of topics, attended his presentation of the 27th Annual Austin W. Scott, Jr. Lecture entitled “The Obesity Myth & The Lewinsky Scandal,” which was based on his latest book project. His second book, Jurismania: The Madness of American Law, critiques the American legal system. Professor Campos also served as the first director of CU law school’s Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law.

[jazusamo]

Wouldn't doubt that this Paul Campos was a close friend of former prof and fake Indian Ward Churchill at the Boulder campus, they're both loudmouths.

[RatRipper]

I dare this cowardly POS to tell that to Scalia to his face.

[kcvl]

http://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/pics/campos.jpg

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Paul F. Campos

Professor of Law
Constitutional Law; Legal Philosophy; Legislative Process; Property

University of Colorado Law School
466 Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Phone: (303) 492-6053
E-mail: paul.campos@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)

Educational Background:
J.D. University of Michigan Law School 1989
M.A. University of Michigan 1983
A.B. University of Michigan 1982

Bio:
Paul Campos left a position with a Chicago law firm to begin his teaching career at Colorado Law School in 1990. As a scholar, he has focused on constitutional law and legal theory. His graduate studies in English literature, which culminated in a thesis on Shakespeare’s King Lear, provided him with rigorous training in literary theory that has been helpful in his current work in constitutional interpretation. He has written several well-regarded law review articles in this area, including “Against Constitutional Theory,” published in the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and “Advocacy in Scholarship,” published in the California Law Review. Both of these articles have been noted as major critiques of the political and normative orientation of current constitutional theory. Professor Campos’ regular column for the Rocky Mountain News (distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service), written for a general audience on political, social, and legal issues, has developed a considerable following. A packed house, drawn by his provocative take on a wide range of topics, attended his presentation of the 27th Annual Austin W. Scott, Jr. Lecture entitled “The Obesity Myth & The Lewinsky Scandal,” which was based on his latest book project. His second book, Jurismania: The Madness of American Law, critiques the American legal system. Professor Campos also served as the first director of CU law school’s Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law.

[gortklattu]

Please explain the text behind him. Is it his want ad? /s

[AllAmericanGirl44]

This is rich! Did he also discuss the age and the ‘sharp as a tack’ mind of ginsberg? (sp)

[blueunicorn6]

Ohhhhh.....a chicago lawyer Democrat.......I wonder what he thinks......never mind......he’ll let us know.....God, they have no sense of modesty....

[Norm Lenhart]

Pick any mountain hick/redneck out of the woods at random, ask he and the professor a series of logic questions and I guarantee the redneck would wax the ‘professor’.

Make that “most” professors.

[rockinqsranch]

76 if my math is correct.

[txrefugee]

Another “Hispanic” affirmative action hire who is being paid by clueless parents to indoctrinate their children to hate America. They are a dime a dozen in our universities.

[Huntress]

"In his old age [he has] become an increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard: a pompous celebrant of his own virtue and rectitude, a purveyor of intemperate jeremiads against the degeneracy of the age, and now an author of hysterical diatribes against foreign invaders, who threaten all that is holy,"

The author of that has a lot of nerve calling anyone else a blowhard.

[txrefugee]

After reading this hilarious bio, extolling the virtues of English literature in interpreting the Constitution, I’d say this over-paid slug is angling for the next seat on the SCOTUS, should we be cursed with another four years of BO.

[pookie18]

Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg is 79...