{"id":1692,"date":"2008-12-15T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2008-12-15T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:31:55","slug":"dripping-with-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Dripping With Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2206441\/pagenum\/all\/\">Dahlia Lithwick<\/a> observing Justice Scalia at oral arguments on <em>Iqbal v. Ashcroft<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scalia then points out that the ability of the attorney general and FBI director to do their jobs should not be dependent on the discretion of a district court judge. He pronounces district court judge the way you or I might say serial wife-beater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason she&#8217;s my favorite writer on legal issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dahlia Lithwick observing Justice Scalia at oral arguments on Iqbal v. Ashcroft: Scalia then points out that the ability of the attorney general and FBI director to do their jobs should not be dependent on the discretion of a district court judge. He pronounces district court judge the way you or I might say serial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,36,4,458],"tags":[75,1126,1127,76],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-law","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-dahlia-lithwick","tag-iqbal-v-ashcroft","tag-scalia","tag-slate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ri","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}