Scalia Post Mortem Quote of the Day

"Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed. Belligerent with his colleagues, dismissive of his critics, nostalgic for a world where outsiders knew their place and stayed there, Scalia represents a perfect model for everything that President Obama should avoid in a successor." -- (emphasis added) Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the latest issue of The New Yorker, saying what needs to be said about the "legacy" of Antonin Scalia. Perhaps now, post funeral, the puffery and misty, sugar-coated memories of the late Justice and his "wit" will give way to an honest assessment of the damage that he did (or tried to do) to the lives of so many Americans.