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@AEI
. Co-editor, Scalia Speaks & On Faith. Tweet about bad teams, good music, great books, old shows, and some politics. m.
@AdeleScalia
, dad x4.
Ideas have consequences! In 1978, Waylon and Willie advised, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.”
Within a generation, Paula Cole was asking, “Where have all the cowboys gone?”
I'm very sad to hear about the passing of my parents' good friend, and my father's wonderful colleague, Justice Ginsburg. May her memory be a blessing. I'd like to share a couple of passages that convey what she meant to my dad.../3
This is a story that Judge Jeffrey Sutton shares about an encounter late in my dad's life, when he bought his friend Ruth two dozen roses for her birthday. "Some things in life are more important than votes."
This is from a roast he delivered for her 10th anniversary on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. They'd been colleagues on that court until he went to the Supreme Court; she hadn't joined him there yet—and he missed her.
No one should be able to purchase a semi-automatic weapon, cross state lines and kill 2 people, wound another and go free. In what world is this safe ... for any of us ?
MSNBC's Katy Tur: "Based on where Americans stand on the issues, Americans have really moved in a much more progressive direction over the years. Do you think it’s appropriate to continue to take such a strict originalist view of the Constitution given it’s 2018 and not 1776?”
“Chocolate chocolate chip,” he says, raising the cone he ordered all by himself.
“Oooooh!” says the crowd. “Ahhhhh! We are in the presence of greatness!”
This is a disgrace. Eugene Scalia spent his career putting the interests of giant corporations ahead of American workers. I stand ready to fight back to protect worker's rights.
Enthusiasm to pass abortion bans in Republican-dominated states provides stark contrast to the more muted efforts to protect abortion rights in states controlled by Democrats.
As others have pointed out, the phrase “buy back” is inaccurate because it implies that citizens buy their guns from the gov’t.
For that reason, the phrasing is also a window into the progressive mind, which believes that the state is the source of *everything* you have.
You'll be surprised to learn that the Times has an opinion column about the friendship between my father and Justice Ginsburg that spends as much time complaining about him as it does celebrating/admiring them.
"I'm sorry! I didn't realize that, when signing a letter that warns of an expanding culture of 'ideological conformity,' I was agreeing with people whose ideology does not conform with my own."
I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company.
The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry.
Senator Warner (R-VA) suggested that my father's large family was a good qualification: "Finally…his ability to successfully manage, together with his lovely wife, a family of nine children, may indicate something about his temperament as a future justice of the Supreme Court.”
Can someone help me do a clip search and find whether Antonin Scalia was asked whether he could be a proper father to nine children when he was nominated to the Supreme Court
I'll never forget the first time my parents had Justice Thomas over for dinner. I didn't expect that laugh! It boomed through every room in the house and I loved it. (I still love it.)
Justice Clarence Thomas on Antonin Scalia: "He said, 'Clarence, you like classical music?' I said, 'Oh, I sure do.' He said, 'Come to the Kennedy Center.' I said, 'Oh yeah, but I don't like people who like classical music.'"
#SCOTUS
(h/t
@mikeallen
)
Emmanuel Macron: “Present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight or nine children.”
BA in English from Radcliffe.
Nine children.
39 grandchildren.
Two great-grandchildren.
#PostcardsforMacron
The Post’s humor columnist went to an elite all-girls school in DC, grad from Harvard (like both of her parents), & her father was a Congressman—but she really likes making fun of Kavanaugh’s privileged upbringing and supposed sense of entitlement. Also, his anger makes her mad.
Remarkable: the only mention of Gov. Northam’s blackface/KKK picture is at the end, in parentheses. No mention of the rape charges against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor; no mention of the AG’s admission that he wore blackface, too. It’s nothing but progress for Dems in VA!
It has come to our intention that others are trying to profit from the sale of Jethro Tull branded so-called face masks, some claiming to offer protection against the COVID disease. We wish to entirely disassociate ourselves from any such product.
To believe Originalism is a good thing you must think these people are wrong: Erwin Chemerinsky, Adrian Vermule, Richard Fallon, Dick Posner, Eric Posner, Pam Karlan, Linda Greenhouse, Mike Dorf, 99% of justices since the founding, Adam Winkler, Reva Siegel, me, most historians.
Accusing a man of gang rape is “softball.” Another nominee of sexual harassment: wiffle ball. Having everyone vote against, and stoking irrational fears about, highly qualified nominees: hacky-sack circles. Charges of racism: tiddlywinks. Bush-era filibusters? Flag football.
Thanks for sharing, actionists! The graffiti was gone by the time I got to the office and nobody mentioned it all day, so I wouldn’t have even known about your bravery if it weren’t for this tweet.
Thanks also for making me even prouder to work at AEI, you Jew-hating bastards.
Put another way: we conservatives believe that a black child in the womb—who is pre-viability, who cannot exist outside of his or her mother—should have the same legal rights as full-grown white people in America.
Mad Scientist Fat Albert: "Conservatives want you to think that a fetus--a fetus who is pre-viability, it means it cannot exist outside of its mother, it cannot live outside of--of the womb, has the same--should have the same legal rights as full-grown Black people in" America.
To the many admirers of
@JusticeWillett
: he tells me that his "heroic, angelic mom is in her final hours or days. Please spare a prayer for the extraordinary Doris Willett, and for those who love her."
My wife,
@AdeleScalia
, wrote for
@FDRLST
about how the Kavanaugh confirmation battle has changed her thinking and made her want to become a citizen.
If Kavanaugh is the nominee, the fever-swamp theory that Trump picked him because he'd protect the president from indictment will gain traction. It's nonsense, and here's why. /1
Trump SCOTUS team has looked at Kavanaugh's past comments on indicting a sitting president, we've confirmed. In 2009, Kavanaugh wrote: "The indictment and trial of a sitting President, moreover, would cripple the federal government..."
This passage, about AOC’s reluctance to marry someone of another race, illustrates the regressive impulse of some progressives.
@charlescwcooke
’s response is exactly right.
This thread is best understood as a late-night voice message. “Anyway, call me back when you have a chance. Or don’t. Whatever. This is Steve, by the way.”
@DanRather
For those of you under the impression that Kenneth here knows the frequency: originalists don’t believe the Constitution should never change; they just realize it’s not judges but citizens through their representatives who should make those changes. Read!
President Obama “politely disagreed” with a straw man version of the opinion. And the justices didn’t just happen to be in attendance—they were in the first two rows (right in front of the president) and were surrounded by Democrats who stood to applaud.
Before we were married, I wrote a poem for
@AdeleScalia
about what life would be like together, describing a Saturday afternoon where I watched college football and raked leaves with the the kids. Not the most romantic stuff, but I’m pretty happy it came true.
Really hard to describe what it’s like in Virginia this weekend. There are tons of them out, roaming around joyfully, excitedly, living for the moment and getting together and making tons of noise after being underground for what seems like ages.
Lots of cicadas out, too.
Style guide update: When progressives restrict access to certain works, they're protecting children. When conservatives do the same thing, they're banning books.
Four progressive teachers in Washington’s Mukilteo School District wanted to protect students from a book they saw as outdated and harmful. The blowback was fierce.
What my wife said: "I like that one Cheap Trick song."
What I heard: "I'd like you to play 50 consecutive Cheap Trick songs for me, supplementing each one with trivia, opinions, and your personal memories. Also, please provide lip-syncing and air guitar."
Some of the stories about Justice Ginsburg skipping Trump’s State of the Union mention that my father didn’t attend Pres Obama’s SOTUs—which is true, but not the whole story. He stopped attending them altogether in the late 90s.
Super Bowl party tip: all the Super Bowl ads are already online. Watch them now so that when they air during the game, you can shush everyone and announce, “This one’s really good!” Then, let them know when the best part is about to start by declaring, “here it is here it is!”
The fact that
#ScotusPick
Kavanuaugh believes that a President cannot be indicted is an automatic disqualification from Supreme Court consideration.
Plain and simple.