Justice Scalia’s partisan discredit to the court (WaPo Editorial)
By Editorial Board, Published: June 27
... In dissenting from a court ruling that struck down all but one part of Arizonas law on illegal immigrants, Justice Scalia strayed far from the case at hand to deliver animadversions on President Obamas recent executive order barring the deportation of people who entered the country illegally as children. Based on nothing more than news reports, Justice Scalia opined that this policy would divert federal resources from immigration enforcement, thus creating the specter of a Federal Government that does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written, and leaves the States borders unprotected against immigrants whom those laws would exclude.
This gratuitous outburst, regarding a matter that might someday come before the court as a legal case, followed Justice Scalias performance during oral arguments on health care, which included a wisecrack about striking down the Cornhusker Kickback even though that infamous dollop of Medicaid money for Nebraska, allegedly inserted in return for the vote of that states senator, was no longer in the statute. He sneered that asking the justices to read the entire 2,700-page Affordable Care Act would violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. He launched into a muddled riff on an old Jack Benny comedy routine that became so protracted and distracting that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., amused at first, eventually had to declare, Thats enough frivolity for a while ...
But his lapses of judicial temperament bashing a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda in a written dissent, or offering views on this and that in sarcastic public speeches detract from the dignity of his office. They endanger not only his jurisprudential legacy but the legitimacy of the high court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/justice-scalias-partisan-discredit-to-the-court/2012/06/27/gJQAoVEG7V_story.html
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)really mastered the English language, I strongly support Obama's stance on the Dream generation. Even if a child brought to the US illegally and living here for many years (5-7 is long enough) hears the language of his parents' home country, say Chinese or Spanish, Japanese or Italian while in his home, that child will be disadvantaged if the child moves back to his parents' country of birth.
If a child grows up in the US, most likely that child will be an American in his language skills, culture and attitudes about his personal life. It is really cruel to send the child "back" to a country in which he is a stranger for all intents and purposes. Obama probably understands that based on his own experience of being a foreigner in Indonesia and then coming back the US.
Scalia has no human understanding or compassion on this issue. Neither do the bigots in Arizona.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Or maybe I mean his emotional state, he sounds a bit out of control.