Reply #48: I believe in the language of the Constitution, that does not make me like Scalia. [View All]

Scalia recently made a statement that he believes that the schools should be able to search kid's underwear without a warrant in order to see if teenage girls are hiding aspirin in their panties. I am not making this up, he actually made that argument and that is not the kind of argument that someone who respects the fourth amendment would make. I am sick of hearing people like him are "strict constructionists" who stick to the words of the Constitution, as he will clearly ignore those words when it suits his agenda.

And by the way I am not a "strict constructionist" by the traditional definition of the words, I simply don't think we can spin the very clear language of the bill of rights. I do see some ambiguities to the text in some places, I think the second amendment is unclear as to what constitutes "arms" for example and those parts are open to interpretation. The word "all" seems pretty straightforward to me however, and I don't see much room for interpretation there.