Posted on 01/15/2018 7:18:17 PM PST by Kaslin
The late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia was a fan of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Bryan Garner a friend and now biographer of Scalia told The Wall Street Journal Monday.
Garner, a long-time literary collaborator with Scalia and friend, said that the late justice “thought it was most refreshing to have a candidate who was pretty much unfiltered and utterly frank.”
He had spent two weeks in 2016 traveling with Justice Scalia through several Asian countries just a week before his death.
Garner added that while Scalia liked Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, “he was fascinated by the fact that Trump was so outspoken in an unfiltered way, and therefore we were seeing something a little more genuine than a candidate whose every utterance is airbrushed.”
Garner did go on to specify that Scalia’s approval of Trump’s campaign were during the “early days in the campaign,” and “shouldn’t be looked at through the lens of everything that’s happened since.” He declined to speculate on how the late justice would have viewed other aspects of the Trump presidency.
His decade-long friendship with Scalia is captured in Garner’s book “Nino and Me,” which comes out Tuesday.
Garner is a legal dictionary editor who collaborated with Scalia to produce a book on legal persuasion, “Making Your Case,” and a book on statutory construction, “Reading Law.”
“It looked for a time that we might actually break up the collaboration over contractions,” Garner said of their, sometimes rocky, partnership. He argued contractions help readability while Scalia thought they diminished the dignity of court opinions.
Interestingly, Garner, a Republican with libertarian sympathies, does not share Scalia’s views on abortion, same-sex marriage, and gun control. Their friendship flourished nonetheless.
“It’s fundamentally a book about friendship,” Garner said of his book.
Nice quote. Thank you!
That is so wrong!
And yet so right!
Second, his position would soon be filled. So what would the motive be?
The theory would be that obama would have filled the position. The Republicans warned that they would not give the okay though seeing as it was fairly late in obama’s presidency.
But yeah - I’m guessing he just got old and died.
There was no way he wasn’t killed. I’m sorry, I have no proof but it even fits occam’s razor and so much worse has happened. Too many convenient deaths. Poor guy.
They were so determined for it to look natural that they carefully took the body to a reputable autopsy doctor, by very reputable people.
or not
I never heard of anybody sleeping with a pillow over their faces or even seen it in the movies except when they were killed. I have put a pillow on my head laying sideways to muffle noises, but never fell asleep because it is claustrophobic. Also there was no autopsy,oh that’s ok, he was just the supreme Court Justice. Give me a break, someone smothered him.
“””””””There’s no proof (yet) about the pile-up of bodies associated with the Clintons, but I believe that as well.””””
Snopes says that all the “arkancide” conspiracies are false.....so I guess that settles it seeing as how they are the most elite investigative team in the country.
"They must be false...the Internet said so!" /S
No kidding. It happened just in time for BamBam to appoint a gun-grabber. Thank God he didn’t get in. One of very few things that MM actually got correct.
One heck of a coincidence, “wetworks”, “pool”, “vineyard”, and “night”. And just a few days before (4).
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