Last time, in what was arguably a “puff piece” about old judicial friends, I had the audacity to mention strict constructionism, thus unintentionally unleashing a torrent of umbrage. The Originalists defended their hero Scalia with a variety of indignant comments to...
Month: February 2016
Scalia and Ginsburg: Two Kinds of Justice
By now everyone knows that Justice Scalia died last weekend. Most people also know that he was a bastion of Conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court. At least, that is how he is usually described (it’s actually a bit more complicated than that.) And some people now...
Avery v. O.J. Simpson
I know I promised to write more about Making a Murderer. But, two things happened: first, I got busy with my actual job. Second, O.J. I watched Episode One of the new O.J. series, The People Versus O.J. Simpson, sooo aptly named. The People really are all either for...