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Beautiful: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Demolishes Arguments Against Gay Marriage

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Aelfric8/28/2014 7:39:15 am PDT

Posner is a Reagan appointee, it’s true, but he’s always been a super smart guy—he basically invented (or at least popularized) the legal field known as “law and economics.” His intellect leads him to some odd places sometimes (as in when he recommended a free market for adoptable children), but he is not afraid to follow where the evidence leads. He stands as quite the GOP heretic these days, after having admitted that Republican thinking over the last decade has “deteriorated” and become “goofy.” npr.org

He is also famed for his long-running judicial contretemps with Justice Antonin Scalia—you can read his criticism of Scalia’s book here: newrepublic.com
and then simply google to find the many back-and-forth articles between the two (and Bryan Garner, Scalia’s co-author).

I think many here would agree with me that it’s not Posner who has changed, but the Republican party abandoning many of the principles which even its opponents could at least respect.