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The Republicans weren’t alone in memorializing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) acknowledging that while they didn’t always agree, Scalia was “brilliant.”
Here’s the full statement from Sanders:
While I differed with Justice Scalia’s views and jurisprudence, he was a brilliant, colorful, and outspoken member of the Supreme Court. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and his colleagues who mourn his passing.”
Calling Scalia “brilliant” should nullify a Democrat candidate running for President.
I can’t see it being applied to you.
citizens united has been a plague on this country. scalia was in the vanguard. the man had become a political hack over the last several years, often including verbatim fox talking points into his ramblings. he was no longer faithfully doing the job he had sworn to do. so, no bernie, if he was ever brilliant, he had lost it, to the detriment of our country.
Just as citing Kissinger as a mentor should.
It certainly wasn’t brilliant of him to claim that states had a right to incarcerate same sex couples for “sodomy.”