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" There is a school of thought that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who&amp;#039;s been so obviously short-timing it at his day-job that he might as well just steal his paycheck, is merely an extremely principled conservative. There&amp;#039;s another school of thought that says that, well, you might disagree with him, but he&amp;#039;s a brilliant scholar. There&amp;#039;s yet a third school of thought that reminds you at length what a hoot the guy can be when the robes come off. Then there&amp;#039;s mine which is that Scalia is someone who stopped giving a fk about anything about half past the moment when he abandoned the last shreds of his intellectual credibility in his great desire to hand the presidency to a manifest incompetent who spent eight years wrecking the place, and whose dedication to constitutional principles approximates that held by what you will find sliming up the walls of the tanks at an abandoned aquarium. Know why I can say all that? New York Times v. Sullivan,that&amp;#039;s why. One of the evolutionary provisions that I abhor is New York Times v. Sullivan. It made a very good system that you can libel public figures at will so long as somebody told you something \u2014 some reliable person \u2014 told you the lie that you then publicized to the whole world. That&amp;#039;s what New York Times v. Sullivan says. That may well be a good system and the people of New York state could have adopted that by law, but for the Supreme Court to say that the Constitution requires that \u2014 that&amp;#039;s not what the people understood when they ratified the First Amendment. Yeah, well, it&amp;#039;s still there, pal, and so is Justice Brennan&amp;#039;s (unanimous) majority opinion. Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. So go bite me, you authoritarian toad. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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