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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPosner'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.htmlThe 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 centurieswell, 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
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Exilednight
(9,359 posts)1. he's right.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)2. Posner also changed his tune on employment law,
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.
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
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)4. I've read a couple of his books.
They were good reads.