Posted on 02/28/2013 5:49:11 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down.
As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the court’s newest members, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
The acerbic Scalia, the court’s longest-serving justice, got his latest comeuppance Wednesday morning...Scalia, assuming powers of clairvoyance, argued that the lawmakers were secretly afraid to vote against this “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”
...The two new justices are sending a message to the court’s conservative majority: You may have the votes, but you’re going to have a fight.
Wednesday’s voting rights case was typical. Surprisingly, the five conservative justices seemed willing to strike down a landmark civil rights law (the provision that gives extra scrutiny to states with past discrimination) that was renewed with near-unanimous votes in Congress. Conservative jurists usually claim deference to the elected branches, but in this case they look an awful lot like activist judges legislating from the bench.
Sotomayor allowed the lawyer for the Alabama county seeking to overturn the law to get just four sentences into his argument before interrupting him. “Assuming I accept your premise — and there’s some question about that — that some portions of the South have changed, your county pretty much hasn’t,” she charged. “Why would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused the passage of this law to start with?”
Moments later, Kagan pointed out that “Alabama has no black statewide elected officials” and has one of the worst records of voting rights violations.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Scalia and Kennedy, on the other hand, want to hear a CONSTITUTIONAL argument.
Looks like Miss Milbank and her liberal pals are afraid the Voting Rights Act is about to receive a smack down...long overdue...from the Supreme Court.
By the way, if you read the whole article it appears as though Miss Milbank is a member of the Kagan/Sotomayor fan club...not a journalist.
By the way, there is more intellectual firepower in one of Scalia’s FARTS then there is in the thought process of Sotomayor, Kagan and Miss Dana Milbank COMBINED.
Whats Milbank smoking? Scalia has twice the IQ of Sotomayer and Kagan combined.
see post 2.
Reminds me of the dysfunctional Wisconsin Supreme Court. Bradley and Abrahamson vs. Prosser.
Isn't that kinda' slow. Four sentences? Isn't it usually four words?
Yup. Milbank is telegraphing the strategy here - take on Scalia and when he kicks their ass cry “bully”.
Oh how I wish Jim would give us a “like” button.
The phrase “reigning bully” and the word “ascerbic” told me all I need to know about the author of the article, the content of the article and the lack of validity anything the article had to say.
Miss Milbank is a guy, but other than that slight mistake, you have him pegged.
By the way, if you read the whole article it appears as though Miss Milbank is a member of the Kagan/Sotomayor fan club...not a journalist.
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“AMEN”!
Miss Malbank is a very fitting monicker for that commie.
Dana Milbank thinks he’s very clever.
Little does he know.
Kagan and Sotomayor are barely qualified to judge a chess tournament.
He’s turned the Supreme Court into MSNBC and when he gets one more on there the clowns will be running the circus.
They actually complained that a state doesn’t have a statewide elected black official. Do you doubt for a second these radical bimbos would install a black governor by affirmative action?
How low the U.S. has fallen when a president of the U.S. appointed two such nonentities to the highest court of the land. Obama is not of the U.S. and is not for the U.S. He’s
a Manchurian Candidate tasked with taking down the U.S. piece by piece and quickly.
Much like the idiots celebrating the Violence Against Women Act, Obama’s demon spawns have no basic comprehension of the Constitution.
I thoroughly enjoyed how Scalia mocked the name of the act, while acknowledging that many in Congress voted for the act based on its name alone. (Ie. VAWA)
That ignorant left wing witch actually disputed the statement that even “some parts of the South have changed”.
As if she knows or cares about reality.
I looked at the liberal’s BIO. His pals and the shows he’s has been on are the whose who of liberal idiots. Chris Mathews and Bill Mahrer(sp). I cannot figure out how the Wall Street Journal put up with him for 8 years, but; he is 52-3 now, so; he’s had 20 years on CNN and practicing his liberal skit. I can honestly state that even Nebraska U had a liberal journalism PHD in 1970.
To a great extent the current leftist revolution is fueled by racial grievances and revenge motives. Sotomayer was acting out as a revenge seeking minority. What will happen in the USA under such racist radicals will be horrible to behold.
This woman is ranting about the evils of a state’s “record” even though the record is from decades ago and does not involve the present citizenry.
And yes, the Congress lines up to pass crap legislation because it sounds racially / politically correct.
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