Scalia was an intellectual phony: Can we please stop calling him a brilliant jurist? No one wants to disrespect the dead. But we disrespect the truth to hail his legal mind and phony, grand principles SALON.COM|BY PAUL CAMPOS[...]
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December 14th, 2014 - 5:34 pm § in Misc.
Scalia is only the latest conservative to assert that torture is OK
Now that it’s been definitively established the Bush regime tortured terrorism suspects, conservatives are rallying around a theme that goes roughly like this: Torture is, at worst, morally ambiguous; and using it is sometimes okay to prevent greater harm. It sounds like a talking point manufa[...]