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  • Justice Scalia: Why he's a bad influence (Cry Baby Can't Take Insults)

    07/15/2015 3:02:10 PM PDT · by Titus-Maximus · 31 replies
    LA TImes ^ | 7/14/2015 | Erwin Chemerinsky
    Justice Antonin Scalia is setting a terrible example for young lawyers. Ignore, for now, his jurisprudence, his famously strict originalism; it's his tone that's the problem. I have taught argumentation for many years, first as an instructor to high school and college debaters, currently as a law professor. Throughout my career I have always cautioned students away from nastiness as a crutch for those who cannot win using reason or legal precedent. I have told them to stick to persuasion and to dissecting the opposition's logical fallacies. But lately my students have been turning in legal briefs laced with derision...