By Tom Carter Excerpted from: httpss://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/15/scal-f15.html Scalia has personified the rightward march of the US political establishment over the past three decades, as it jettisoned democratic institutions and erected a police state. The establishment has in nearly uniform language closed ranks to praise Scalia as a national treasure, worthy of universal mourning. Obama called Scalia "a towering legal figure." The Washington Post described him as "the intellectual cornerstone of the court's modern [...]