"Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday, was not the first modern thinker or US Supreme Court justice to articulate the modern conservative agenda that eventually took over the court after decades of being ruled by progressives..."
"His most memorable recent quote saw him taking the Supreme Court majority to task for its legal reasoning on the passport issue.
"He said its interpretation that putting the word 'Jerusalem' on individual passport documents was tantamount to recognition of Israeli claims over the city was a logical 'leap worthy of the Mad Hatter.'”
As if putting the word "Jerusalem" on passports doesn't acknowledge facts on the ground?
"Overall, Scalia’s judicial philosophy was not identical with Israeli conservatism, but his arguing for it has supported Israeli conservatism and sometimes put Israeli conservatives in a position where they could point to someone who was more conservative than they."
Scalia ‘Mad hatter’ who recreated the US conservative movement
"His most memorable recent quote saw him taking the Supreme Court majority to task for its legal reasoning on the passport issue.
"He said its interpretation that putting the word 'Jerusalem' on individual passport documents was tantamount to recognition of Israeli claims over the city was a logical 'leap worthy of the Mad Hatter.'”
As if putting the word "Jerusalem" on passports doesn't acknowledge facts on the ground?
"Overall, Scalia’s judicial philosophy was not identical with Israeli conservatism, but his arguing for it has supported Israeli conservatism and sometimes put Israeli conservatives in a position where they could point to someone who was more conservative than they."
Scalia ‘Mad hatter’ who recreated the US conservative movement