Scalia on FOX News Sunday

[YankeeFan]

If you're a SCOTUS nerd, make sure you catch a replay of this.

 

[Amy]

And if that's not enough, Sandra Day O'Connor is going to be on Face the Nation this morning.

 

[TigerVols]

If you're a SCOTUS nerd, make sure you catch a replay of this.

This has to be a hoax; only an activist judge would appear on a morning political show, especially one on Fox News.

 

[Point of Order]

He's going a whirlwind tour. Damage control?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

He's got a book to flog.

 

[YankeeFan]

He's going a whirlwind tour. Damage control?

New book out:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/intention-and-the-canons-of-legal-interpretation/

 

[TigerVols]

Would be interesting to know (a) how much he got paid for this book, which clearly has no mainstream audience and (b) who exactly paid him.

But I suppose transparency only applies to Democrats.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Reading Law: The Importance of Imposing One's Personal Opinions On Everyone Else

-- by Antonin Soprano

 

[User 4332]

Would be interesting to know (a) how much he got paid for this book, which clearly has no mainstream audience and (b) who exactly paid him.

But I suppose transparency only applies to Democrats.

He's already written several books clearly intended for legal audiences, including one other with Bryan Garner, his co-author on this book, who is the leading authority on modern legal writing (wrote the Red Book -- legal writing's version of the AP style book -- and is the current editor of Black's Law Dictionary, among other things). And the book is being published by West's, one of the two leading publishing houses for legal texts, casebooks and other insanely expensive books for lawyers, judges and law students.

While transparency in the amount of the advance would certainly be a good thing, it's odd to imply something nefarious here.

 

[YankeeFan]

And if that's not enough, Sandra Day O'Connor is going to be on Face the Nation this morning.

Sandra got bumped when CBS scored an interview with Mitt Romney from Israel.

Will air next week.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

And if that's not enough, Sandra Day O'Connor is going to be on Face the Nation this morning.

Sandra got bumped when CBS scored an interview with Mitt Romney from Israel.

Will air next week.

Shelly Adelson chuckles.

Bought and paid for, baby.

 

[Greenhorn]

He was originally slated to write "Get Over It: How a Terrible Eagles Song Inspired Me to Rage Against Liberals in the Wave of Bush v. Gore."

 

[Double Down]

He believes "hand-held rocket launchers" are protected under the 2nd Amendment?

Between this and citing slave laws in the Arizona immigration case, the judge has gone Full Lunatic.

 

[HanSenSE]

He's going a whirlwind tour. Damage control?

New book out:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/intention-and-the-canons-of-legal-interpretation/

The younger generation will be surprised this has nothing to do with cell phones.

 

[YankeeFan]

He believes "hand-held rocket launchers" are protected under the 2nd Amendment?

Between this and citing slave laws in the Arizona immigration case, the judge has gone Full Lunatic.

He said the right was to keep and bear arms.

So, it had to be small enough to carry. That rules out some military weaponry, but leaves in hand held rocket launchers.

 

[Starman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29

 

[Double Down]

He believes "hand-held rocket launchers" are protected under the 2nd Amendment?

Between this and citing slave laws in the Arizona immigration case, the judge has gone Full Lunatic.

He said the right was to keep and bear arms.

So, it had to be small enough to carry. That rules out some military weaponry, but leaves in hand held rocket launchers.

Odd that he would obsess over the "keep and bear" part of of the Amendment, as opposed to the "well-regulated militia" part of the Amendment, which is why Madison wrote in the first place. (If Scalia wants to be so obsessed with doing it the way of the founders, he should at least be consistent.) There is no such thing as a one-man militia, and people have been purposefully misinterpreting this for 300 years to serve their own desires.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/sep/21/to-keep-and-bear-arms/?pagination=false

And once again, we are talking politics, so we might as well just stop.

 

[MileHigh]

Yup. Moddy was right in his sticky note at the top posted this morning.