Scalia Dead.

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Merrick Garland, John Roberts usually agreed on appeals court
During Garland and Roberts 2 years together on the appeals court they agreed 85% of the time.

The NRA doesn't know Merrick Garland: Column

George Mason Tweaks Scalia Law School Name Over Unfortunate 'ASSoL' Acronym

 

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George Mason University Renames Law School Due to Awkward Scalia Acronym - NBC News

George Mason University touted a plan last week to rename its law school after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — but the new moniker was quickly scrubbed after its acronym became the butt of jokes on social media.

The Antonin Scalia School of Law had prompted some backside-related ribbing with the trending hashtag #ASSLaw, as well as another unsavory acronym.

The Fairfax, Virginia-based law school on Tuesday announced yet another new moniker: the Antonin Scalia Law School.

An official name change ceremony isn't expected until the fall, after Virginia's higher education oversight agency agrees to the renaming.

The original proposal was first announced last Thursday when George Mason received a $30 million donation that included the request to rename its law school, known for its conservative legal teachings, after Scalia, a stalwart conservative jurist.

The honor was also met with some criticism from legal pundits who saw Scalia's legacy as polarizing because of his controversial remarks while on the Supreme Court.

But law school Dean Henry Butler co-wrote in The Washington Post this week that Scalia is an appropriate namesake because both he and the school share a "maverick streak."

"It is a fitting honor that his name will now grace the George Mason School of Law," Butler wrote, "memorializing the Justice's legacy at an institution committed to rigorous legal inquiry."

Scalia was a guest lecturer at the school before his death in February and spoke at the dedication of the law school building in 1999.

The latest donation is the largest in the school's history, and was provided mostly by an anonymous donor who gave $20 million. The other $10 million was provided by billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch.

 

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I suppose all of you making fun of #ASSLaw would prefer #ASSOL?

 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Garland's "moderation" seems to be an affinity with the left on gov. power to regulate, and the right on gov. power to police/incarcerate.</p>— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) <a href="https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/710121676458037249">March 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Sounds like the worst of both worlds.

Yea...agree.

But in terms of a politics, GOP was sitting on the Heater, and Mr. Obama just screwed them into the ground with a splitter.... Hatch is a doddling old man who can't play the game anymore...SMH. The GOP should STFU. Just stop talking. You said it doesn't matter, you said it was meant for the next president, you had clips of democrat dipshits supporting your point...reminds me of Buck Gardner...great Duck caller. My favorite line of his...when they are doing what you want...SHUT UP!

 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Garland's "moderation" seems to be an affinity with the left on gov. power to regulate, and the right on gov. power to police/incarcerate.</p>— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) <a href="https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/710121676458037249">March 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Sounds like the worst of both worlds.

Interesting.

You always have to look closer when you hear that someone is a "moderate." I think there are very few real moderates, like Sandra Day O'Connor was. She was right of center, but she was truly a consensus-building, moderating influence who wrote opinions that adopted a middle ground between the extreme right of the Court and the left. People often call Kennedy a "moderate," but it's often not an accurate term as applied to him. With Kennedy, it's more accurate to say that he has an idiosyncratic jurisprudence: he is liberal on some issues (most famously, sexual orientation issues) and conservative on others, but I don't really think of him as a moderate voice who finds middle ground, at least not usually.

Anyway, I think that distinction between (a) a true "moderate," or a person who adopts a middle ground, and (b) a person with an ideology that isn't consistently left- or right-leaning but is sometimes one and sometimes the other, is often lost in these discussions.

 

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• Obama is much better at politics than the mouth-breathers running the GOP;
• Garland's stances on the areas most important to me are virtually unknown, but odds are good he'll vote reliably with the court's Progressive bloc;
• Regardless, Garland is likely much preferable to any nominee that Clinton or Trump would put forward next year.

Mitch McConnell Will Still Block Merrick Garland’s Nomination, Donald Trump Be Damned
The prospect of a more liberal Supreme Court nominee does not faze him.

Some conservatives are even urging the GOP to cut its losses and confirm Garland, a mostly middle-of-the-road U.S. court of appeals judge widely respected by members of both parties, rather than deal with a more liberal nominee if Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton trounces Trump in the fall.

“Republicans must know that there is absolutely no chance that we will win the White House in 2016 now,” Leon H. Wolf wrote on the conservative website RedState. “They must also know that we are likely to lose the Senate as well. So the choices, essentially, are to confirm Garland and have another bite at the apple in a decade, or watch as President Clinton nominates someone who is radically more leftist and 10-15 years younger, and we are in no position to stop it.”

 

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Scalia, Affirmative Action, Fisher v. Texas

Scalia, Affirmative Action, Fisher v. Texas

Fisher v Texas - SCOTUS's decision will impact Affirmative Action with the decision expected in June.

Arguments were heard by the Court in December.

Justice Scalia remarks included:

“There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school – a slower-track school where they do well.

“One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them.”

"I’m just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer [black students]. Maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe some, you know, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks, admitted to lesser schools turns out to be less. And I don’t think it stands to reason that it’s a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible."

Justice Elena Kagan recused herself. The case had previously come before the Court in 2013.

Scalia and Higher Ed: Justice's death may not change outcome on affirmative action, which he opposed. His record includes key votes and dissents on issues of black colleges, hate speech, single-sex public higher education and church-state line. (Inside Higher Education)

Trump: ‘I don’t like’ what Scalia said about affirmative action

Republican Views On Affirmative Action

Argument analysis: Now, three options on college affirmative action (SCOTUS blog)