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WaPo: Scalia Says ?Hear, Hear? to Machine Guns in D.C.?
2008-06-27 07:32:00 -By Warner Todd Huston It didn’t take long for the Washington Post to weigh in on the wrong side of the Second Amendment issue, did it? The Post’s Colbert I. King could not contain the disgust he feels for at least one part of the Constitution more in his response to the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment ...
By: Publius Forum
Scalia?s Mistake
2008-06-22 22:30:00 A new report from the Seton Hall University School of Law debunks the myth that released GITMO prisoners have killed Americans. On June 12, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia?s dissenting opinion on the [Boumediene] ruling stated that ?[a]t least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantánamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.? The statistic was ...
Scalia on 60 Minutes
2008-04-29 21:26:00 This is the first half of a two-part interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I’m not sure why Leslie Stahl was chosen to interview him. It is interesting to hear his thoughts on the Constitution. I don’t think that he is right, but he is interesting.
Scalia to country get over it
2008-04-25 07:01:00 There is a sense of calm that comes over a professor once he or she gets tenured. All of a sudden you are free to write and say what you please without the risk of being fired. Antonin Scalia sits on the Supreme Court like a tenured professor. He proved that he ...
Scalia On Bush v. Gore: Get Over It!
2008-04-24 22:55:00 From CBS: People who believe the U.S. Supreme Court?s decision giving the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was politically motivated should just get over it, says Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia denies that the controversial decision was political and discusses other aspects of his public and private life in a remarkably candid interview with 60 Minutes ...
By: The Hot Joints
Scalia: ?Not Everything That Is Bad Is Unconstitutional?
2008-03-06 23:15:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 3:15 PM MST Scalia on Torture: “Not Everything That Is Bad Is Unconstitutional” By Paul Kiel - March 6, 2008, 11:27AM Last month, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia pronounced in an interview with the BBC that it was “extraordinary” to think that “so-called torture” might be prohibited by the Constitution. Well, to the ...
By: Suzie-Q
Opus D'Oh! Scalia Opens Up About Torture
2008-02-12 21:00:00 Justice Antonin Scalia told the BBC that "smacking someone in the face" could be justified if there was an imminent threat."You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good'," he said in a rare interview.He also accused Europe of being self-righteous over the death penalty.Justice Scalia is known as the most acerbic member of the Supreme Court, and is often described as the most conservative of the court's judges.Pain inflictionIn the interview with the Law in Action programme on BBC Radio 4, he said it was "extraordinary" to assume that the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" - the US Constitution's Eighth Amendment - also applied to "so-called" torture.Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution?Justice Antonin Scalia"To begin with the constitution... is referring to punishmen...
By: NO Exit...
Antonin Scalia Is Right
2007-10-17 22:25:00 According to this Philadelphia Inquirer story?"The bottom line is that the Catholic faith seems to me to have little effect on my work as a judge," (Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) declared.I should note that Scalia spoke at Villanova University last night, hence the news story (though given Scalia?s propensity for secrecy on these occasions, I?m surprised reporter David O?Reilly was even allowed to do his job).And I should also add that I agree with Scalia; the Catholic faith that I was taught appears to be nowhere in sight when you look at his rulings.He obviously doesn?t want to be a steward of the earth, as noted in this prior post where he rendered a rather restrictive interpretation of the Clean Water Act that allowed for pollution in ?channels through which water flows intermittently or channels that provide drainage for rainfall.?He didn?t care about simple decency, to say nothing of Christian compassion, in the case of James Stone, an 81-year-old retired engineer from...
Webtoon: 24 - Starring Justice Scalia as Jack Bauer
2007-10-12 20:14:00 This video is as ridiculous as Scalia's Jack Bauer statements. However unlike Scalia's statement it's amusing rather than disturbing.H/T to Obsidian Wings
By: Dyre Portents
Scalia, Torture and ?24?
2007-06-21 00:06:00 You may have already heard about it by now, but it’s just too good to pass up. The most esteemed conservative judge in America Anthony Scalia recently defended the use of torture by referring to the feats of none other than Jack Bauer - the fictional lead character on the show 24. Senior ...
By: Bligbi
Scalia, 24, Who Needs Laws?
2007-06-20 15:53:00 *Cross posted from Central Sanity*Antonin Scalia has been called a strict constructionist and a provocateur - well, he's a provocateur anyhow. This week at a Canadian judicial panel he told this whopper:"Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so."So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes." as reported by The Globe and Mail .Canadian Judge Mosely didn't think too highly of the idea, "The agents of the state, and the agents of the Canadian state, under the Criminal Code, are very much subject to severe criminal sanction if they would engage in torture," he said.Scalia countered that it would be folly for laws to force counterterrorism agents to wear kid gloves all the time. Odd that in a 2004 dissent he wrote, "If civil rights are to be curtailed ...
The Scalia Chin Shuffle
2006-12-02 15:41:04 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been a major topic of discussion across the country today for reportedly flipping the bird at the media as he was leaving Sunday mass in Boston. Thoughts on this from bloggers and the MSM have been varied, ranging from amusement to admonishment. Some people don't even seem to think he should be a Supreme Court justice if he can't act in a more dignified manner. (Most of those people were also probably right behind Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, but that's to be expected.)What you're not hearing very much about is the question that provoked Scalia's response, which the AP now reports was actually a dismissive Italian hand gesture. You've probably seen it before; the post title is a fairly accurate description of what it looks like. I have yet to find an exact quote of the question. However, according to the article above, a reporter from the Boston Herald asked Scalia, as he was leaving Catholic mass, if he "faces much q... |
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