The staunch conservative justice inspired former clerks with his collegiality but left them with mixed feelings about his record: ‘I cannot see him only through the lens of my personal experience’Supreme court justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday leaves behind a complicated legacy. The jurist will be remembered not just as a touchstone of contemporary conservatism,but also as one of its outsized contrarians.
With a bombastic intellect and sharp writing to bolster his strict interpretation of the structure, Scalia inspired vitriol from his opponents. His persona became a punching bag for progressives throughout American popular culture, and emblematic of the current culture of outrage as dialectic. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com