[lilylangtree]

Salute Antonin Scalia!!!!

[2timothy3.16]

Wasn't ginsberg an aclu lawyer once a while back? If so how come she doesn't sideline herself when they are in court?

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I was there... it was GREAT! Scalia is the MAN!

[DonQ]

Scalia seems a trifle inconsistent. He was pleased that the Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty; he even said that trial judges with reservations about the death penalty should resign because the death penalty had been officially upheld by the Supreme Court.

Yet the right to an abortion has also been upheld, repeatedly, by the same Supreme Court and Scalia hasn't told judges with reservations about abortion to resign ... and hasn't resigned himself.

And here the Supreme Court has upheld the right to privacy, even with same sex couples, a decision that did not exactly legalize homosexual relations but effectively crippled most of the mechanism for prosecuting it; Scalia evidently has his own reservations and isn't telling people to get in line with the Supreme Court majority or anything like that.

[ThreeYearLurker]

The Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear a case testing the constitutionality of the current version of the pledge as it is recited in public schools and that Scalia will not take part.

Scalia apparently sidelined himself because of remarks he made earlier this year critical of a lower court ruling in the case. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) had found the pledge was unconstitutional in public school classroom because of the phrase, "one nation, under God."

This can't be a good thing.

[GluteusMax]

Scalia is a hero of conservatives who favor a strict adherence to the actual text of the Constitution.

They say this like it's a strange concept. To actually uphold and defend the constitution like they've all sworn to do. The traitors who do not strictly adhere to the actual text should be dealt with accordingly. (Of course that would require a spine.) The winds of CW 2 are blowing.

[aimhigh]

I'm beginning to think that Scalia is not real bright. By speaking out on these issues, he disqualifies himself from these issues in the future. We will lose the pledge of allegiance case because he couldn't hold his tongue.

[Zeroisanumber]

Unusual for a justice to take the rest of the Supreme Court to task in a public forum.

[Zeroisanumber]

Unusual for a justice to take the rest of the Supreme Court to task in a public forum.

[anniegetyourgun]

By the looks of the headline, I guess AP doesn't think Scalia should give his opinion on a matter upon which he has already given his opinion!