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In reply to the discussion: SCALIA: "Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached." [View all]gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... that she could blithely overlook such heinous, repugnant, and perverted view of the law and call him her dear friend?
RBG also voted with Scalia to allow New Haven, Connecticut to impose eminent domain on an entire middle class neighborhood so some scumbag developer could make a fortune building a shopping complex that no one needed or wanted. The neighborhood was demolished, but it remains an empty lot to this day; nothing was ever built. But all those families lost their homes "for the greater good." Bullshit.
So I have little patience with those who want to tell me what a saint Ruth Bader Ginsberg is.
When you remove any common human decency from legal considerations, the law devolves into nothing but a tool of totalitarianism.
Scalia's diseased belief system that allowed for a man to be executed even though exculpatory evidence proved him to be innocent is the very definition of all that is sick and hateful about conservatism.
Scalia was NOT a great jurist, he was a sadistic asshole, and the world's a better place without him.
And I'll bet he was a big fan of that rabid antisemite, Rickard Wagner.