blackbootz, always very interesting to find the things Scalia was actually right about. Not something you come across every day.
Scalia sat for thirty years. It's heartening that he was right some of the time. Greenhouse is in my rotation of constitutional law blogs by the way. She's top-notch. I spent an afternoon just going through her past articles. Did you know that Senate Republicans literally outsources the judicial nomination process to the National Rifle Association?
Sadly, I did. That is information I wish I could unlearn, because it gives me so little faith in our institutions. I'm reading a book right now that I can't recommend high enough to you: Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet. It's a biography of sorts of justice Brandeis, but more a dissection of his contributions and political/judicial philosophy. He's the type of judge that we would do well to have 9 of on the Court, a small government progressive a la Thomas Jefferson. That type of person doesn't seem to exist in government or anywhere else nowadays.
Consider the book recommended and at the top of the list. Really exciting. I heard about this book but it's escaping me from where exactly. What was great was that I think the recommender was a public official and was enthusiastic in his praise, so it's possible that his strain of small government progressivism is living on.
Woah, "We the People" looks awesome. "A constitutional history of the Republican Party"? That sounds so interesting.