Justice Antonin Scalia has died

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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:02 pm


Students petition for transparency of Koch Foundation financial donations

https://www.usu.edu/studentmedia/index. ... nations-2/

“Utah State students should have a right to know if their professors are hired to support and advance ideologies of donors,” said protester Chris Tonan. “This is not a partisan issue as we are against undue influence of donors on our education whatever end of the political spectrum they fall under.”

How dare students bite the hands that feed deaducation?
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:36 pm


GMU Faculty Sign Petition Against Law School Name Change Cite Scalia’s ‘Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia’


"Faculty and staff members at George Mason University are signing a petition against GMU's law school being renamed to honor the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on account of his alleged “racism, sexism, and homophobia.”

On March 31, George Mason University announced the school will be changing the name of the George Mason University Law School to “Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University.” That name has since been changed to “The Antonin Scalia Law School.”

However, according to an open letter written by assistant cultural studies professor Craig Willse, “the values that Scalia affirmed from the bench do not reflect the values of our campus community.”

According to Willse, renaming the law school after Scalia is an “affront to those in our community who have been the targets of Scalia’s racism, sexism, and homophobia.”

“As a Supreme Court Justice, Scalia enacted direct harms to many in our student body, especially students of color, women, and LGBT students," Willse claims.


“To those students — and all students committed to realizing our university’s stated commitment to a diverse, accessible, and inclusive learning environment — we want to affirm publicly our commitment to fighting alongside them for a just world, beginning with a just university,” the petition reads.

A section on the “No Justice for GMU” website titled, “Who was Scalia?” states, “Antonin Scalia strongly opposed affirmative action, rights for LGBT people, and constitutional protections of abortion.”

Currently, none of the petition signatures belong to a professor or staff member at the George Mason School of Law.


Willse’s major academic focuses are on “biopolitics, neoliberalism, critical race and ethnic studies, urban studies, political sociology, queer and feminist theory.” He is involved in “trans justice and prison abolition, and queer anarchist anti-war activism.” He also serves as the faculty advisor for GMU Students Against Israeli Apartheid."

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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Tue Jul 18, 2017 1:58 pm

NPR's newest lackey just aired an hour long puff piece w/his equally obsequious guests to promote this tribute play about Scalia, a 'charming' 'monster', at Arena Stage:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IJVIjzJLwk

(NPR did pay obligatory lip-service to a few protests from their 'listening audience', off-air, of course, to keep their policy of 'civil discourse' unchallenged.)

NPR's nod to the First Amendment in tackling 2017's 'controversial, significant' subjects.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rI7sMwwDtY
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Elvis » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:44 pm

I've already sent the "A1" guy some notes...to no avail. :lol:
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:23 pm

^^^ What? J.J. miss an opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue? :shock: (He was probably tied up playing tennis or lunching at The Cosmos Club.)

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Who knows, maybe 'The Racist Originalist' really is a revolutionary work that will provide audience members with provocative dinner conversation, post theater, at 'Rose's Luxury' or other fine restaurants in Washington. Just not people most impacted by Scalia, et al.

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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Cordelia » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:46 pm

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Capitol Hill Roll Call's review ("Roll Call - providing Capitol Hill and Washington, DC news, objective facts and analysis....."):

The play is focused around showing Scalia’s “heart,” and while at times it was cutesy and dramatized, it is a rare modern-time play for Arena Stage.

Scalia, played by Edward Gero, feels less iconic and more human, full of humor, occasional anger, faith and kindness
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Gero still rules as Scalia in ‘The Originalist’

The disarming laughs come early as Strand hands the stage to a Scalia who’s combative but charming as he lectures on law and parries with the feisty young liberal who will be his foil throughout the evening. “The Originalist” demands that you like Scalia: Then maybe, just maybe, you’ll hear his arguments. Gero woos the crowd beautifully with a virtuosic blend of bluster, intellect and devastating wit.

Strand’s play has been a hit for Arena, where it’s now playing on the larger Kreeger stage after premiering in the 200-seat Kogod Cradle two years ago (and then playing several theaters across the country). Director Molly Smith hasn’t substantially restaged the piece: It’s still furnished with little beyond Scalia’s imposing desk, and it still uses a thrust stage, though it’s cut back from the runway that jutted well into the Cradle’s seating.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertai ... 663d60e61f




Scalia might have been pugnacious but he really must have been a pussy cat. One has to marvel at how seamless it appears for powerful Washington media institutions to band together (including re-staging a recent play) to invent a legacy. And, despite its $30 Million funding gift , The Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University encourages its quick and easy "Giving to Scalia Law" https://www.law.gmu.edu/give/

Maybe Bob Woodward will write the book (never mind, he already wrote The Brethren).
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby The Consul » Fri Jul 21, 2017 4:42 pm

The rule of law is laid by mad Catholics who love the hunt. Originalists pine for that lofty time before the Civil War when America was Great and people better understood their place.
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