{"id":4670,"date":"2016-02-17T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2016-02-17T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T17:40:36","slug":"scalia-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"AND SCALIA HAD NO ETHICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did he fail to recuse himself from Bush vs.Gore despite the fact that his son worked for GW&#8217;s law firm, Scalia issued the most convoluted, ludicrously ass-backwards rationale for engineering what was, for all intents and purposes, a judicial coup d&#8217;etat.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida recount had to be stopped, he and his Supreme conspirators argued, because the truth might have prejudiced Bush&#8217;s claim to legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>This is a man who will live in infamy.<\/p>\n<p>And when students demanded answers to why he had mugged democracy, he told them to get over it, spewing his contempt for the nation, because he could, thanks to the lifetime-appointment sinecure syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Get over it indeed. Will America be able to get over what Scalia did to us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did he fail to recuse himself from Bush vs.Gore despite the fact that his son worked for GW&#8217;s law firm, Scalia issued the most convoluted, ludicrously ass-backwards rationale for engineering what was, for all intents and purposes, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}