Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Saturday issued a statement mourning the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, describing him as “one of the most influential and eloquent Justices” to ever serve on the Supreme Court.
“Justice Antonin Scalia was, and will always be remembered as, one of the most influential and eloquent Justices ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Lynch said. “His indomitable conviction and his fierce intelligence left a lasting imprint – not just on the way the Supreme Court resolves cases, but on the legal landscape that he helped to transform. A lion of American law has left the stage, and it is up to all of us – every American – to keep our national constitutional dialogue as lively and as learned as he left it.”
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli described Scalia as a “great jurist” in his statement.
“I am saddened by the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia,” he said. “He was a great jurist and a great man who served the Court and the country with honor and distinction. We will miss him very much. On behalf of my colleagues in the Office of the Solicitor General, I extend our deepest condolences to Mrs. Scalia and to the rest of his family.”
Jeebus on a Triscuit. Brandeis was a Lion. Douglas was a Lion. Fat Tony was an ideologue who only wrote vitriolic dissents.
More like a hyena, a powerful, cunning beast with incredibly powerful jaws which scavenges other predators kills.
But I get your point.
Panegyric
A panegyric is a formal public speech, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and undiscriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical.
We’re going to be listening to a lot of this sentimental crap in the next few days.
[Also see Hagiography]
“A kidney stone of American jurisprudence has been passed.” There, Loretta, fixed that for you.
She’s a class act … just what she needed to say. Obama is freed, with this ‘hug’ to Scalia from Lynch, to go forward with his constitutional requirement of nominating a new justice.