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malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 12:39 PM Jun 2016

Posner's trolling the Court again:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2016/supreme_court_breakfast_table_for_june_2016/law_school_professors_need_more_practical_experience.html

The excerpt that is raising eyebrows:

I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries—well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments). Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century.

It is humorous how many comments attribute this statement to a "lefty" bias.

-- Mal
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Posner's trolling the Court again: (Original Post) malthaussen Jun 2016 OP
he's right. Exilednight Jun 2016 #1
Posner also changed his tune on employment law, ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2016 #2
I'm pretty much a fan. malthaussen Jun 2016 #3
I've read a couple of his books. ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2016 #4

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
2. Posner also changed his tune on employment law,
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 12:45 PM
Jun 2016

which is a really big deal, given how he penned most of the pro-business decisions.

He admitted that he was wrong, and that workers needed a fairer playing field in court.

No, he's not a liberal, but what he is doing to the Scalia school of "thunk" in the Supremes is really amusing. I cannot go so far as to call original intent a reasonable "thought."

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
3. I'm pretty much a fan.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 12:57 PM
Jun 2016

Although I don't agree with the hyperbole, I think he is one of the better legal scholars running around, and his ridicule of Scalia is a joy to watch.

-- Mal

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