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Question: Which US Supreme Court jutice has the best legal mind?
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Scalia		  
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Ginsburg		  
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Kagan		  
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Roberts		  
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Thomas		  
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Sotomayor		  
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Kennedy		  
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Breyer		  
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Alito		  
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
Nathan
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« on: March 20, 2012, 03:15:56 PM »
Quote from: I cannot imagine power as a thing negative and not positive. on March 20, 2012, 01:12:05 PM
Objectively speaking, Scalia is by far the most intelligent and has the best grasp of law and precedent.  That isn't my own opinion (Thomas is probably the "best" politically), but rather that of my parents' neighbor, a very liberal lawyer who formerly clerked for Justice Blackmun (of Roe v. Wade fame).

Replace Thomas in this post with...well, pretty much anybody else (probably Ginsburg, perhaps Sotomayor) and this is about how I see it too.
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
Nathan
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2012, 04:14:42 PM »
By which you mean he hasn't said anything for seven years.

That's not 'not engaging in bluster'. That's dereliction of duty.
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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2012, 12:02:26 AM »
I've heard Scalia's much less abrasive in his personal life than he is in his opinions. Maybe not Harry Blackmun likable, but likable.
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