re: #137 HappyWarrior

That is his legacy. We can talk about his ‘sharp tongue’ but the man’s rulings screwed millions of people based on a nonsensical view of the Constitution as a document that can’t be altered with the times,

Its not even so much that the document can’t be altered as that the legal principles espoused there can’t be applied to specific situations that arise unless there is evidence that people in the 18th and 19th centuries had considered the situation and intended it to apply in those situations. So, for example, despite the clear equal protection language in the 14th amendment, it should only provide equal protection to African-Americans and not women or LGBT. Its a nutty philosophy, IMO.