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Review of book on Justice Scalia
Posted by David Hardy · 3 January 2010 04:35 PM
In the NY Times.
Hat tip to Sebastian of Snowflakes in Hell, who notes, "Posner’s knowledge of the scholarship that has surrounded the Second Amendment recently leaves much to be desired, and one wonders whether Harvie Wilkinson has read the Congressional briefs in Heller and McDonald, where a substantial majority of the “political branches” came down in favor of an individual rights view of the Second Amendment. Unless be “political branches” Judge Wilkinson means DC City Council, the City of New York and the City of Chicago?"
"On the court, Scalia has shown a disdain for elites that keeps him not only in the Dick Cheney but also the Sarah Palin wing of the Republican Party." And of course we all know that Sarah Palin is bad.
"As a Supreme Court justice, he has written a series of decisions striking down affirmative action." And of course we all know affirmative is good.
"You have to be prepared to be regarded as idiots by sophisticated, modern society,” he told Biskupic in explaining his 1996 speech urging a Christian audience to “pray for the courage to endure the scorn” of the “worldly wise,” who don’t believe in miracles and the resurrection of the dead." And of course we all know how silly those miracle thingies are.
"And he also told Biskupic how much he lamented the decline of the recreational hunting culture of his youth. He then wrote a 5-4 decision declaring the right to bear arms to be a fundamental, individual right." And of course we all know guns are bad and only the gummint has any business owning them.
Oh, the things that are taken for granted among a certain set. Does this guy know that he is speaking to a particular crowd in their particular language, or does he think he is describing self-evident truths that need no explanation or support?
Either way, he's a dingaling.