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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. Probably the best mockery of Scalia I’ve seen is this explanation of his judicial philosophy with respect to the Commerce Clause: Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. In recent years, the Court’s commerce clause analysis has been accused of being “unclear” and “results-driven.” See Bork, R., What the Fuck Is Up With Scalia in Raich?, 118 Harv. L. Rev 211, 213-14 (2005). Specifically, critics have pointed to the seeming inconsistency between the Court’s decision in Morrison and its decision in Raich (cases coincidentally involving similar facts at the case at issue here).Id. at 215. See also Aging Hippy Liberal Douche, A Post-Modernist Perspective on the Habermasian Dialectic Inherent in Scalia’s Commerce Clause Analysis, 98 Yale L.J. 1201, 1210-11 (2004). The lower courts have also failed to find a meaningful distinction between the laws struck down by the Court and those upheld. See, e.g., Vedder v. Cobain, 321 F.3d 12, 15 (2004) (Posner, J., dissenting) (“What the fuck is up with Scalia in Raich?”).In light of this criticism, the Court today announces a new clear standard to guide lower courts in their application of the commerce clause. This new standard will govern when a law exceeds Congress’s power under the commerce clause and when it does not. The new standard is this – a law passed pursuant to the commerce clause is constitutional if Justice Scalia likes the law and unconstitutional if he does not. Similarly, if the law is regulating things that Justice Scalia wants regulated, it is constitutional. If it does not, it is not.

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.

Probably the best mockery of Scalia I’ve seen is this explanation of his judicial philosophy with respect to the Commerce Clause:

Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. In recent years, the Court’s commerce clause analysis has been accused of being “unclear” and “results-driven.” See Bork, R., What the Fuck Is Up With Scalia in Raich?, 118 Harv. L. Rev 211, 213-14 (2005). Specifically, critics have pointed to the seeming inconsistency between the Court’s decision in Morrison and its decision in Raich (cases coincidentally involving similar facts at the case at issue here).Id. at 215. See also Aging Hippy Liberal Douche, A Post-Modernist Perspective on the Habermasian Dialectic Inherent in Scalia’s Commerce Clause Analysis, 98 Yale L.J. 1201, 1210-11 (2004). 

The lower courts have also failed to find a meaningful distinction between the laws struck down by the Court and those upheld. See, e.g., Vedder v. Cobain, 321 F.3d 12, 15 (2004) (Posner, J., dissenting) (“What the fuck is up with Scalia in Raich?”).

In light of this criticism, the Court today announces a new clear standard to guide lower courts in their application of the commerce clause. This new standard will govern when a law exceeds Congress’s power under the commerce clause and when it does not. The new standard is this – a law passed pursuant to the commerce clause is constitutional if Justice Scalia likes the law and unconstitutional if he does not. Similarly, if the law is regulating things that Justice Scalia wants regulated, it is constitutional. If it does not, it is not.

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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…