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Christopher J. Scalia Profile picture
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Oct 4, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
#NationalPoetryDay with a #SCOTUS twist—some courtly clerihews by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor (from Brief Candles, LSU Press, 1998):

Antonin Scalia
likes to sing "The Rose of Tralee"—a
treat for all students
of his jurisprudence.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
said ''Titanic,'' in truth, made her wince. ''Berg
phobia?'' inquired a reporter.
''No,'' she said, ''I just wish it were shorter.''

Anthony Kennedy
was startled: when had he
removed his tie?
And why?
Sandra Day O'Connor
was just about to don her
robes when her clerk
simply went berserk.

David Souter
booted up his computer
and discovered that sex is
treated dryly in LEXIS.
John Paul Stevens
is one of the evens
against the odds, standing unbent
by his dissent.

William Rehnquist
grew testy when quizzed
concerning how sober
a judge ought to be the first week in October.

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Oct 1, 2018
But whom should the investigation offensively flatter?
Senators loved the word “fulsome” this week. Gillibrand complained the FBI didn’t conduct a “fulsome review.” Even the secondary meaning of “abundant” isn’t fair here, because it implies the FBI would find a lot of info. “Thorough” would probably have been the better word. And...
...yesterday, Murkowski promised to give “more fulsome” remarks re why she was a no on Kavanaugh. The problem is, the primary def is close to the *opposite* of what she means—she wasn’t going to insincerely flatter him. She would have been better off just saying “fuller remarks.”
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Sep 26, 2018
This rhetorical sleigh-of-hand is everywhere right now: Jennifer Rubin calls people making allegations *victims*--which implies that the accusations are true and the accused is guilty. So any question about an accusation becomes contempt for a victim.
washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/…
*sleight-of-hand
And although she starts the post by saying there's not "enough evidence to say definitively" Kavanaugh attacked Ford, here she again calls Ford a victim (presumably his).
As for that comparison: nobody would take a murder accusation seriously if it came 30 years later w/o proof.
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Aug 26, 2018
More tweets about art and books to end the weekend. The Delacroix exhibition at the @metmuseum (& Eric Gordon’s review in @TWSculture) gives me a good excuse to hop on my hobby horse and point out that Delacroix loved to paint scenes from Walter Scott’s novel Ivanhoe. (1/)
He was especially taken by the scene in which an evil Knight Templar, with the help of his Saracen slaves (spoils from the Crusades), abducts Rebecca, “the beautiful Jewess.” This 1846 depiction of The Abduction of Rebecca is in the Met, and...(2/)
...this 1858 version is in the Louvre.
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Aug 20, 2018
FINALLY!!! A news outlet has the courage to analyze "the twenty-four articles that [Kavanaugh] wrote, from 1983 to ’86, as a sports reporter for the Yale Daily News." h/t @RBPundit newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
I think he's being serious.
If Adande said this on Around the Horn, he'd be muted for the rest of the show.
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Aug 9, 2018
Weird Al.
They Might be Giants.
I'm re-adding ELO to this list. Also, I've been known to talk about my love of Cheap Trick for more than 2 hours.
nationalreview.com/podcasts/polit…
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Aug 8, 2018
Be sure to check out the series @realclearpolicy is running called "Reclaiming Our American Project," which has thought-provoking essays about what @Pete4CA and @richtafel of the American Project call the "conservatism of connection."
realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/…
In the latest installment, @ToryAnarchist discusses the importance of "re-affirm[ing] a national perspective." (h/t @smarick) realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/…
.@Reinsch84, Editor of @LawLiberty, on Walker Percy and the present political moment.
realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/…
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