Scalia's "brilliance" was wasted in service of fascism.

Even as he probably burns in hell, he is being touted as one of our national treasures, sorely missed. His worth to the cause of the Establishment was indeed, probably incalculable.

In the hopes that when they croak, people will say nice things about them, no matter what kind of corrupt douchebag they were.

Because when push comes to shove there are no conservative heroes of the common man, there are no giants of conservative thought. There is no conservative FDR, no conservative Earl Warren. Any past republican that they could possibly put forward, would surely be derided as a RINO or Liberal today. The hallmarks of conservative thought include a selfish small mindedness that is the antithesis of heroism, and with their lack of actual heroes, they simply fabricate them from whole cloth.

...gave for the guy. Terrible Obama did that!! He also ordered flags to be lowered to half mast, when there are Nobel Laureates that that has not been done for.

Obama has handled this very well

...we shall just have to disagree regarding how President Obama handled the matter.

"President Barack Obama has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at the Supreme Court, where Scalia served for three decades, and other federal buildings throughout the nation and U.S. embassies and military installations throughout the world." from http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/flags_at_half-staff_in_honor_o.html

Maybe it would be pertinent to vet racist judges and lawyers out of the process.

Just like most conservatives in power.

I'd sure like to hear him expand on Ukraine.

repeat a 1000+ times how Scalia was the greatest legal mind of his generation - no
different than the deification of Ronnie Raygun the mental midget

how extreme the national corporate propaganda networks have become.

Turn off corporate propaganda. Turn on Free Speech TV and Democracy Now.

One of the worst and most intellectually dishonest justices in Supreme Court history. Worse than Rehnquist, if that's possible. For the sake of our nation, good riddance.

years ago. He should have been impeached for Bush v. Gore, his son worked for the firm representing Bush. He should have been impeached for ruling on the Cheney / oil executive secret meeting case. But now what does Clarence Thomas do without his brain telling him how to vote?

Do whatever Scalia does.

(That's a Betty Bowers joke, by the way)

His comments on foreign policy in particular--ostensibly Hillary's biggest advantage in the race--would seem to indicate a different preference.

I find it odd when any liberal says, oh but he was smart and funny. I have never seen any brilliance in any of his writings, only mischief, closed mindedness and lies.

was on the Court. Thomas keeps his mouth shut (to open it, I suspect, would remove any doubt).

Love me some Mike D. You can still see him riding the T. He teaches at Northeastern. He's a visiting prof at UCLA--avoiding the winter weather, perhaps?

http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/faculty/michael-dukakis

It's the conservatives dirty little secret that they try to cover with lies. They want and got activist judges, not strict constructionists. They use that phrase as a fig leaf and hope people don't pay attention to the truth of raw unbridled political rulings. Citizens United, personal right to carry guns and Bush v Gore are totally the opposite of following the constitution, in fact they all show total disregard for the constitution.

Scalia answered," I do not follow the Constitution. I follow the Federalist papers in my decisions.."
Watched that on CSpan last weekend.

If you listened to what he said, there is a clear implication that he used the Fed Papers to surmise what the framers were THINKING when they wrote them.

IOW, he interpreted the constitution by thinking he could read the minds of people who have been dead 200 years.

And It was an eye opener that Scalia disregarded the Constitution so completely and bragged about it.

That explains many of his disastrous decisions.

I can confirm that Mr. Dukakis was a great governor and is a very down-to-earth, kind man. He would've made a great President, if Rove hadn't been at the helm of George Bush, Sr.'s campaign. Boy, did he get unfairly smeared.

...better than Bill Clinton, that's definitely for sure.

his campaign sucked. That picture of him in the tank just made him look like a pencil neck. So tragic because I remain convinced he would have been a great president.

Having been to Boston in the 80s, I was really impressed with him - especially in comparison with Our Own Dear Maggie Thatcher. I became a sort of one-woman Dukakis Fan Club of Great Britain, and was devastated when he lost. I suppose this was one of the factors that eventually led by a long route to my joining DU.

Was Rove already involved that long ago, or were you thinking of Atwater (horrible man!)

good. The world became a better place that day.

...and WTF was he doing partying with a guy who had a case coming up before the Court?

something he apparently made a habit out of.

but the conservatives love him because he gave them what they wanted

I've always respect what Dukakis has to say. He would have been a good president, in my opinion.

Scalia was an abomination on the Court. The damage he has caused to our Nation may never be fixed.

There is no other explanation for his behavior on the SC. His decisions lacked compassion and common sense and had a complete disregard for precedent. If that isn't an activist judge, what is?

It is sad this does not seem to happen more in the mainstream media. So far most of the mainstream reporters have been saying Scalia was an originalist. Very few seem to have asked was Scalia really an originalist, or was he really a legal genius. Many have been claiming Scalia was a legal genius while pointing out that he said giggery pokery and applesauce in his decisions. How is saying giggery pokery and applesauce a sign that you are a legal giant? Where is all that great conservative legal reasoning?

You don't want to nominate a person to the Supreme Court, a life appointment, who will possibly retire or otherwise end his term within a decade or 15 years. You want someone who will serve on the Court a long time and develop a deep understanding of the history of the Court's decisions and the deliberative process.

So the ideal nominee should be as young as possible yet still be mature. It's not that easy to find a good candidate to fill a Supreme Court position.

He like many other conservative justices use the originalism argument as a way to inject their prejudices, bigotry, and elitism into their written opinions. They hide their prejudices behind the excuse they are constitutional originalists.

If you read his opinions he was no legal giant or great legal theorist.

Thank you. kick

we haven't heard the last of Scalia.

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I wish there were more resources on him that worked it's way into the mainstream. Very interesting fellow that cuts through the shit without being a blowhard.

integrity, the man should have been president. Clearly, the country blew it, I really didn't like the 80's.

Obviously Scalia had a “Bloated Ego” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has said, "You can't separate speech from the money that facilitates the speech. It's utterly impossible."

Yes, it depends on relativity, and the realm of the Gaussian science, lets’ start with a penny for your thoughts. We know Scalia would give us lessons back to both the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke.

Or, the extremely poor widow places just two small coins, her two cents, into the offering. She finds greater favor with Jesus than those Scalia supporters.

The old phrase a penny for your thoughts, but now I got two pennies' worth, seem out dated now that Scalia found a new proof in mathematics in the fascist most principle structure of the Gaussian conservative party called todays Republican.

Give me all the money for your thoughts. Isn’t that exactly like a hold up. Isn’t that as machination, a crafty artful design intended to accomplish an unusual evil end.

Sorry Mr. Scalia if you don’t separate the money form the speech your Republican Party will choke.

I loved that line.