In Re Scalia the Outspoken v. Scalia the Reserved

April 29 — About 20 minutes into stock remarks in praise of the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia paused. "Everything I've said up to now," he told a hotel ballroom full of lawyers here on Thursday, "has been uncontroversial."

What followed was not.

In emphatic phrases punctuated by operatic gesticulation, he then launched into an attack on a series of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the last 40 years. The court was wrong, he said, to say the Constitution requires that lawyers be provided to poor people accused of crimes. It was wrong, too, to find that the First Amendment imposes limits on libel lawsuits.

"We have now determined," he continued, "that liberties exist under the federal Constitution — the right to abortion, the right to homosexual sodomy — which were so little rooted in the traditions of the American people that they were criminal for 200 years."

He said his colleagues may soon discover a right to assisted suicide between the lines of the text of the Constitution.

"We're not ready to announce that right," he said, more than a little sarcastically. "Check back with us."

Citing long judicial tradition, Justice Scalia speaks eloquently about his desire to stay out of the public eye. But with his frequent and colorful public speeches, his 21-page defense in March of his duck-hunting trip with Vice President Dick Cheney, and his forceful, cutting and almost uniformly conservative opinions, Justice Scalia cannot help attracting attention.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/politics/02SCAL.html

Where is that in the constitution?
Kinda quiet about that, no?

And that slavery thing, well,....

How can a U.S. Supreme Court Justice be so anti-democratic?

...that there were no laws against abortion until the latter half of the 1800s, long after the constitution was written. They were passed as public health measures to ban a procedure performed under nonsterile conditions and with a lack of understanding of female anatomy that was killing too many women.

Justice Quack has apparently not read much history in his life. He is certainly unaware of the inherent unfairness of expecting a wrongly accused individual taking on a large DA's office full of lawyers and headed by a DA up for reelection without a lawyer of his own.

Justice Quack has also been speaking out against "allowing" women to vote, since that wasn't in the original document, either. Please tell this fool what an amendment is.

It's time for this guy to be impeached and removed. He's obviously gone as crazy as the man he installed into the presidency is.

He thinks it's 1904!!!

Sounds like a form of psychopathology to me!!!

Just, "Wow."

that Scalia's father was an Fascist. He belonged to that party in Italy. Scalia himself went to a private school in New York (I think) that has very fascist leanings. Scalia was appointed by Reagan.

When I heard that, everything made sense.

Scalia says: "We have now determined," he continued, "that liberties exist under the federal Constitution — the right to abortion, the right to homosexual sodomy — which were so little rooted in the traditions of the American people that they were criminal for 200 years."

Someone ought to remind him that his boy Clarence Thomas could have been lynched 50 years ago for marrying a white woman. What does he think about the "right" to marry outside your own "race" -- that's not spelled out in the Constitution either. Should we still support laws against that? They were certainly popular in their time... the KKK always argued that their positions were rooted in tradition... and so they were.

Little antonin is a scumbag through and through, a true nazi-repuKKKe with no conscious or remorse...

Instant Karma is gonna pound little antonin into doggy submission one of these days and when "it" (little antonin) least expects it...

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