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To: epicure who wrote (31431)	2/25/2004 5:35:26 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793708

Scalia and Thomes- two of the least competent scholars dissent. Good grief. Please at least spell Thomas' name correctly before criticizing his scholarship. It suggests sloppiness and loose thinking, especially when criticizing someone for "scholarship." Your criticism of Scalia's scholarship simply mirrors your bias against his rulings, which is fine. It is arrogant, however, to disguise this bias in a half-baked, badly-spelled critique of legal "scholarship," something I have yet to see as one of your strengths. You have absolutely no basis for criticizing Scalia's scholarship or academic achievements, which are indeed impressive. Not any dummy gets to write for the Harvard Law Review or teach at Stanford or the University of Chicago. "...educated at Georgetown and University of Friboug (Switzerland), A.B., 1957. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation from law school, Justice Scalia practiced with a firm in Cleveland, Ohio, and then accepted a position as a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He later served in various government positions, including General Counsel, Office of Telecommunications Policy, Executive Office of the President, and as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice. After leaving government service, he returned to law teaching, first at the University of Chicago, and then at Stanford University." tourolaw.edu Thurgood Marshall's scholarship and academic achievements were not particularly noteworthy. After graduating from Howard University's Law School, he did not publish anything, did not teach anywhere. Nevertheless, his record on civil rights cases, as a lawyer and as a Justice, is legendary. chnm.gmu.edu Thomas is a graduate of Yale Law School. You disagree with his rulings, which is fine. But you have no basis for criticizing his scholarship. Supreme Court Justices, like Marshall and Thomas, do not always come to the Court from an academic ivory tower. Yet, they make their own contributions in their own way. Hugo Black is another non-academic great. ccom.ua.edu