When I was in high school, Antonin Scalia made fun of me and somehow she heard about it and she told my Mock Trial teacher to tell me that I should "keep dissenting"
Scalia was a guest judge for our Mock Trial nationals one year. Then he gave a speech and answered some questions. *My* question was how he could square his ideas about "founding intent" with the need to overturn such intent in decisions like Brown v. Board of Ed.
He said, to no one in particularly "what have these people been teaching you?" He laughed, everybody laughed. He said that Brown was good b/c of the 14th, and that Plessy was the decision that was against the clear intent of the 14th.
Then he laughed again, and said I needed to "learn more about your own history" and then everybody laughed again.
I didn't know, at the time, that he was, you know, LYING and that actually my question was SPOT THE FUCK ON about his own intellectual inconsistency regarding the 14th A and stare decisis. But... I had to go all the way to law school to figure that out. Bastard owes me $300K
In fairness... let me tell you guys something... law school is not nearly as intimidating when you've ALREADY been mocked by Antonin Scalia. Like, what was a *law school professor* gonna do to me? Give me a B? What is dead may never die, y'all.
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