for the white sheet he currently wears only in his mind. I think the old boy is getting a bit senile if he can't even keep track of his own opinions.

The main point being that he has a sense of the rightness of his position, and the text of the law or even his own former opinions doesn't really seem to matter so much as getting the "right" answer.

Bryant

trying to argue that churches could be forced to wed gay couples which is pure unadulterated bullshit.

Now that scares me. Opus Dei is all orthopraxis, and theology and law be damned.

Ref: http://www.mond.at/opus.dei/opus.dei.uo.faq.html

Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas all belong to Opus Dei.

Rich ones like him think they're doing the poor a favor by cutting off their aid because the poor have it too easy..

It's always been easy to trip up people not arguing in good faith.

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I imagine, though, that Justice Scalia is puzzled by having his own stupid words thrown back in his stupid face: "Hell, I never pay attention to what I've written before! Why does anyone else?"

Someone commented to Rudolph Bing, manager of the Metropolitan Opera, that "George Szell is his own worst enemy." "Not while I'm alive, he isn't!" said Bing.

I don't think Justice Scalia is very happy in his job; he should get his resume in order and start looking around.

but his opinions are becoming more and more irrational and less and less based on any reasonable interpretation of the law. Fat Tony is the epitome of an "activist" judge, a term thrown at liberal courts when the right wingers don't agree with a decision. But Scalia is exactly that, and worse: he decides the result first, then tortures the law to fit that result. And he's doing it more and more obviously and irrationally.

which made his utter wrongness easier and sometimes even rather entertaining to read. Now his opinions are pure Abe Simpson:

Now they're just nuts.

rest of the world.

He could show them

I wonder what it is like backstage at the ol' SC.

Thanks for the laugh.

He only panders to his right-wing masters. He is the archetype corrupt political judge.

BELIEVES every word he writes. That's what he is. I know a guy, now a federal judge, who clerked for him on the DC Circuit. The opinions are his unvarnished core beliefs, though they have sounded more and more like Abe Simpson as the years go by.

A judge is not supposed to issues decisions based on his personal beliefs.

A judge is expected to base his decisions on LAW.

But that is the real Scalia. WYSIWYG.

and the suggestion (not saying it is your suggestion) that he merely ignores the law in favor of his own personal beliefs has no basis in reality. I rarely agree with him, but I also rarely think that his arguments are dumb.

....and insulting comments - comments directed toward his fellow justices.

I've never seen anything like this from a Supreme Court justice. He's had simply lost all sense of reality and objectivity.

I'm always amazed that conservatives talk about his "brilliance" when his opinions are often filled with snark, petulance, and phrases that are ultimately used against him. And even when they aren't snark filled and petulant, they aren't particularly well-reasoned.

Conservatives must have special criteria for brilliance.

partners in the firm at which I was working was getting ready to argue a case in front of the Supremes. This was back in the late 1980s. John was a kind, gentle man, a lifelong liberal Democrat involved with the upper reaches of the state party, and never said a bad word about anyone. Small town MN boy who went from the U of MN to Harvard Law, where he was on the Law Review, graduated magna, and clerked for Felix Frankfurter.

The topic of the case came up in a meeting and someone asked him about Scalia, who had been one of his classmates. His dry response "I knew him in law school. Tony is very smart, but only half as smart as he thinks he is" and the twinkle in his eye said it all.

John won his case before the SCOTUS. Scalia dissented.

And that was, indeed, his reputation. Great story.

who saw the practice of law as a learned profession. John was one of a kind and as good a human being as ever walked the earth.

I can't believe he's comfortable in his own skin, what with all the anger and hate inside of him.

I shudder to imagine what his dissent to the gay marriage ruling will be if it comes down on the side of civil rights for all as it should.

of sticking a shiv in a colleague.

Jiggery-Pokerey is a game played at lemon parties. How did Scalia know that?

Heh heh. Yep, Scalia certainly COULD be into them.

well, there is clarence the mute

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In 2012 he was basing that on the original intent of the framers. Now, he's basing his view on the original intent of the framers. Obviously the framers changed their mind between 2012 and now, even though they've all been dead for 200 years or more.

Not sure how you missed something so obvious.

which cites facts, case law, precedent.

But there seem to me to be 2 to 3 justices who are simply not working very
hard. They spout off like journalists, or are a simple knee-jerk to the right
wing position.

Yeah. Scalia, Alito, Thomas.

These lifetime appointments. Some presidents have appointed SIX justices.
We'd get more stability and less partisanship with retirement ages, limits to appointments, and at
least one for each President who serves at least 4 years.

His head exploding is making this day even better than it already is. I can't wait for the day that this narrow minded bigot is no longer in the Supreme Court. Thanks Ronnie for appointing this jerk.

or where ever the fat cats are going these days?

isn't upon Roberts to show him the door? He is, after all, Chief Justice, i.e. the boss. I know it's a lifetime appointment but if Scalia is not functioning in a rational manner or is having memory issues there must be a way to push him toward retirement. Of course that would open up a slot for Obama to fill which would open a whole new can of worms. I think I'd prefer the worms.