antonin "elmer fudd" scalia

... remember, this is the SC justice that Dubya said he admires the most. and that Dubya wouldn't mind seeing as Chief Justice when rehnquist is gone. still think that voting nader = good thing?

http://www.dragg.net/users/pennywitt/elmer/Elmer3.gif

How's that sacrificing the future for today thing working out? Oh, for the halcyon days of Clinton/Gore!

Supreme

By Elise Amendola, AP

Scalia is known for a biting humor and is entertaining
on the talk circuit and on the bench during the court's
argument sessions.

He raised some eyebrows with a speech this week at
Harvard University, however, with a comment about
the number of people needed for group sex and the
jest that "sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and
ought to be encouraged."

He made a similar remark in a speech Sept. 20 in
Washington, to chuckles from the crowd at the
conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, while
making the point that judges can have personal moral
judgments. It is not judges' role to impose them on
citizens, he said.

"Let me make it clear that the problem I am
addressing is not the social evil of the judicial
dispositions I have described. I accept, for the sake of
argument, for example, that sexual orgies eliminate
social tension and ought to be encouraged," Scalia
said with a smile.

Scalia made his point about morality in a considerably more serious fashion Friday.

From abortion to the death penalty, the Supreme Court is being asked to determine moral issues that fall
outside the scope of strict constitutional interpretation, he said in a lecture at the University of Arkansas in
Little Rock.

"It is blindingly clear judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to determine what is moral,"
Scalia said.

The 68-year-old was named to the Supreme Court in 1986 by President Reagan, and President Bush
has said that Scalia is one of the justices he admires most.

A Harvard Law School graduate, he was invited to Cambridge, Mass., and spoke Tuesday to a packed
auditorium.

According to The Harvard Crimson newspaper, Scalia ridiculed a European court decision that struck
down British legislation barring group gay sex on the ground that the law intruded upon private life. He
asked rhetorically and very much tongue-in-cheek how many people it takes for such sex.

"Presumably it is some number between five and the number of people required to fill the Coliseum,"
Scalia said, according to the newspaper.

On a more serious note, Scalia was asked if he had any gay friends. Scalia said he probably does, but
he's never "pressed the point."

please die. but wait until there's a democrat in office. in the meantime, you can get scabies.

love,

amateurist

this fuckin guy

dear justice scalia:

please die. but wait until there's a democrat in office. in the meantime, you can get scabies.

love,

amateurist

^^^where can I sign this petition

hahahahahaha what the hell, Scalia

activist judge imo

don't "honor" me with your fucking crosses sheesh

"What do you mean, Jewish cemeteries don't use the cross to honor soldiers? Aren't they Americans, too?"

seriously lolling my balls off over here

guys he's catholic. catholics don't know anything about other religions

(;_; myself included)

this is the guy who said "fangool" to the press right after attending Mass -- on the church steps even!

lolling hardcore after looking up "fangool"

Scalia, you would be a treat if you weren't a Supreme Court justice

ha, yeah, I wanted to post something about this earlier -- it seems like a moment of total lostness on his part, an actual non-awareness that the cross is not a universal commemorative symbol for the dead

I was reading more about this in an effort to figure out if maybe he had a less idiotic point -- like maybe if his claim was that the VFW could deploy a commemorative symbol in sort of a Christian symbolic language but still intend it for everyone -- but no, the more I read, the more clear it seemed to be that dude was just missing out on an extremely basic aspect of life

i know -- it's getting harder each day to tell whether he's a Supreme Court justice or doing stand-up comedy.

basically the more I learn about him, the more endearing and hilarious I find him until I remember that he's actually on the Supreme Court, at which point I die a little inside

saw Barry Lynn (Americans united for the Separation of Church & State) arguing this on Lou Dobbs. He wasn't nearly as persuasive as I would have liked.

guys if we let the ACLU take this cross down, then all of the crosses at arlington national cemetary will have to be bulldozed, forever and ever!!

sounds great

yeah well good thing it's not up to the forum of lou dobbs' show to decide these things, ha

it's 1/9th up to antonin scalia, not ha

xps

this is 9 years old, but it's a pretty decent rundown of Scalia being a cunt:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20001220.html

the issues in this case were mostly weird and procedural and about standing and whatnot, so far as I could tell. and the main thing is that congress basically tried to get around the constitution by just gifting the patch of land where the cross stood to the VFW, making it a private display (but also requiring that the VFW had to maintain the cross or else return the land), which as far as I understand it the court generally recognized as kinda bullshit.

I mean in Bill of Rights terms it kinda seems worse for the government to give people land for the purpose of religious displays than to just put them up itself!

basically the more I learn about him, the more endearing and hilarious I find him until I remember that he's actually on the Supreme Court, at which point I die a little inside

OTM - if he was a character in a novel he'd be a stone classic of comic lit

if this is the case i'm remembering a friend of mine telling me about, calling it a "ww1 memorial" is a thin disguise for having an evangelical revival spot on public land. it's not like it's been there since 1919 or something. again, iirc.

haha yeah that's the other funny thing, that like this tiny patch was given over to the VFW as private, which then holds a huge cross up on a hillside so it's most visible from all the surrounding public land

need to read about this again, but it might have been repurposed as a ww1 memorial as part of the deal to give it away to the vfw

http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Salazar_v._Buono

(scroll down to "background")

ok, i'm totally wrong!