Justice Scalia is an ASS, and Must Step Down

[octothorpe]

From Andrew Sullivan's blog:

The Supreme Court Justice cites Jack Bauer and the Hollywood torture show "24" as relevant background for constitutional jurisprudence

From the Globe and Mail:

What would Jack Bauer do?

Comments

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

"Must step down?" You're really not from around here, are you?

[chris-online.livejournal.com]

Guess some have learned nothing from Dan Quayle.

[pagerbear.livejournal.com]

Do you really want another opening on the Supreme Court while Karl Rove is still President?

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the other day that if I could go back ten years and change one thing, I'd probably cause Scalia to resign from the Supreme Court while Clinton was president.

[notdefined.livejournal.com]

If I could go back in history, I would have a serious talk with his parents about birth control!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Even before reading this response, I was thinking about Stephen Fry's Making History. It's a really weird book, but its central premise has to do with somebody finding a way to reach back into the 1880s and prevent Adolf Hitler from being born -- except that the results turn out to be even worse.

Yah

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Yep, Justice Scalia has some really convoluted thinking. If you have ever heard recordings of him on the bench arguing cases, he's rather nasty and abrasive, even towards other justices on the court if they disagree with him.

Justice Ginsburg has recently really lashed out at the conservative justices on the bench with a very vocal dissent, pretty much saying the decisions the court has issued were about politics, and not about law.

the failures of the legislatures

[redbearmark.livejournal.com]

The long ago approach to change things shifted from the legislative branch where laws should be written to the judicial branch. Elected politicians have no backbone or principles (in either party) to write a law that solve many of the disputed issues. They are concerned about getting money to their districts and states. The CNN article today notes that pork spending is up under the newly elected Congress - change ain't gonna happen. It is all about being reelected.

So the decisions come down to nine individuals. I know if I were a Supreme Court Justice I wouldn't resign either - something like $200,000 a year for life and no one to answer too? We might be more like ancient Rome than we would like to be. Except we don't want politicians that have sex. (evil grin)

[annoyinghandle.livejournal.com]

WTF?! Really, that's all I got.