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mohandasgandhi: I get really excited when other people realize what a complete creep (and douchelord) Antonin Scalia is. I apologize. I’ve had so much fun reading his legal opinions in my studies and have had very few people to share my enthusiasm with. Let’s keep this anti-Scalia energy going. It may re-energize my enthusiasm for Tumblr. I don’t think the whole thing is online, but I think Corey Robin’s essay “Affirmative Action Baby” is one of the best things I’ve read about Scalia: More than coloring outside the lines of the Constitution, it was the Court’s “Mr. Fix-It Mentality,” in Scalia’s words, its “mission to Make Everything Come Out Right,” that enraged him. Scalia’s mission, by contrast, is to make everything come out wrong. A Scalia opinion, to borrow a phrase from New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot, is “the jurisprudential equivalent of smashing a guitar on stage.” Scalia may have once declared the rule of law the law of rules—leading some to mistake him for a stereotypical conservative—but rules and laws have a particular frisson for him. Where others look to them for stabilizing checks or reassuring supports, Scalia looks for exhilarating impediments and vertiginous barriers. Where others seek security, Scalia seeks sublimity. Rules and laws make life harder, and harder is everything. “Being tough and traditional is a heavy cross to bear,” he tells one reporter. “Duresse oblige.”

mohandasgandhi:

I get really excited when other people realize what a complete creep (and douchelord) Antonin Scalia is. I apologize. I’ve had so much fun reading his legal opinions in my studies and have had very few people to share my enthusiasm with.

Let’s keep this anti-Scalia energy going. It may re-energize my enthusiasm for Tumblr.

I don’t think the whole thing is online, but I think Corey Robin’s essay “Affirmative Action Baby” is one of the best things I’ve read about Scalia:

More than coloring outside the lines of the Constitution, it was the Court’s “Mr. Fix-It Mentality,” in Scalia’s words, its “mission to Make Everything Come Out Right,” that enraged him.

Scalia’s mission, by contrast, is to make everything come out wrong. A Scalia opinion, to borrow a phrase from New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot, is “the jurisprudential equivalent of smashing a guitar on stage.” Scalia may have once declared the rule of law the law of rules—leading some to mistake him for a stereotypical conservative—but rules and laws have a particular frisson for him. Where others look to them for stabilizing checks or reassuring supports, Scalia looks for exhilarating impediments and vertiginous barriers. Where others seek security, Scalia seeks sublimity. Rules and laws make life harder, and harder is everything. “Being tough and traditional is a heavy cross to bear,” he tells one reporter. “Duresse oblige.”

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  1. lastnightsmusings reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  2. chotai said: I LOVE SCALIA OPINIONS. ahahahah he never ceases to amuse. my friend just wrote a satirical piece about the supreme court overturning gravity. it’s hilly
  3. youthisastateofmind reblogged this from mohandasgandhi
  4. blissandzen said: One of my major goals in life is to live long enough to pee on Scalia’s grave. Right after I do Cheney’s.
  5. luckyjimjd reblogged this from mohandasgandhi and added:
    In my first year of law school, a professor got really mad when she called on me to ask what I thought about a Scalia...
  6. other-stuff reblogged this from kp777 and added:
    Gad I had to read one essay he wrote touting religion. I read it with a Saudi student I was tutoring. I did NOT have...
  7. lenxo reblogged this from mohandasgandhi and added:
    I can’t wait for that muthafuqr to die. Seriously. The sooner the better.
  8. nighthalos said: yes!
  9. laaurel said: You have the most quality gifs all of the time.
  10. kp777 reblogged this from mohandasgandhi
  11. atlasdrugged reblogged this from mohandasgandhi and added:
    Reading his mind would be a scary thing…