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Scalia Slams Juvenile Death Penalty Ruling
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Posted on 03/15/2005 6:46:01 AM PST by Logos124
WASHINGTON - Justice Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) criticized the Supreme Court's recent decision to strike down the juvenile death penalty, calling it the latest example of politics on the court that has made judicial nominations an increasingly bitter process.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dutroll; newbie; scalia; scotus
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:46:01 AM PST
by
Logos124
To: Logos124
Uhhhhhh.....headline needs to match the story
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:47:13 AM PST
by
NRA1995
("Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan & Ah think yer gonna fin'lly understand")
To: Logos124
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:48:09 AM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Logos124
Powers not enumerated for the federal government or reserved for the states belong to the people.
What part of the Constitution says the Fed govt can regulate abortion?
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:48:13 AM PST
by
boofus
To: Logos124
what sucks about this is that Scalia's comments are "news." Rather, the media portrays them as "news," as though they are somehow unusual. Yet anyone faithful to the constitution would reach the same conclusions.
msm-non-event alert.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:48:44 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
("remember, from ashes you came, to ashes you will return.")
To: Logos124
What's up with the phony headline?
To: Logos124
His comments on the constitutionality of abortion are a little more important than the headline of the piece.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:49:03 AM PST
by
Logos124
To: boofus
Isn't murder a federal crime?
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:50:10 AM PST
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Logos124
I almost get the impression that you don't understand what he is saying.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:50:28 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
To: boofus
What part of the Constitution says the Fed govt can regulate abortion?
No part
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:51:31 AM PST
by
Leatherneck_MT
(3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
To: Logos124
Posting threads with the correct headline prevents duplicate posts.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:52:15 AM PST
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: Logos124
He said no such thing.
Citing the example of abortion, he said unelected justices too often choose to read new rights into the Constitution, at the expense of the democratic process.
"Abortion is off the democratic stage. Prohibiting it is unconstitutional, now and forever, coast to coast, until I guess we amend the Constitution," said Scalia, who was appointed to the court by President Reagan in 1986.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:53:32 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
To: boofus
Amendment V: "No person shall... be deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."
Still, I would settle for making it a state issue.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:53:37 AM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real politcal victory, take your issue to court.)
To: Frank_Discussion
No, with the exception of some jurisdictional issues, murder is a state crime.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:55:06 AM PST
by
Melas
To: KC Burke
I understand completely what he is saying, and agree with it. What I find interesting is that most conservitives in this country seem to think that if President Bush can nominate one more conservitive to the bench, then abortion will be outlawed. This is not true and I admire that Justice Scalia is able to seperate what his personal opinions are from what the constitution allows. We need more judges like him
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:55:30 AM PST
by
Logos124
To: Logos124
The relevant quote was a little ambiguous.
Scalia either meant that the right to life for unborn children is not in the constitution (nor of course is the "right to choose") and therefore it won't be until the constitution is amended.
Or that judges have taken abortion out of the democratic process and made prohibiting abortion unconstitutional, and that won't change until the constitution is amended.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:56:48 AM PST
by
JohnnyZ
("Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now." - Clint Eastwood)
To: Dog Gone
Fake headline. Poorly written, misleading, and not the original, but the Justice did say that. Of course what he meant was that outlawing abortion is effectively unconstitutional due to the Supreme Court ruling(s), but he clearly disagrees that such a ruling was proper, or based on the Constitution as written. He explicitly criticizes the notion of a "Living Constitution.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:57:16 AM PST
by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
To: Logos124
Hit n Run eh ? Nice fake headline.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:58:25 AM PST
by
John Lenin
(Abortion has created lots of atheists because no one wants to go to hell)
To: Frank_Discussion
Isn't murder a federal crime? Only the murder of certain "covered" federal employees/elected officials.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:58:40 AM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: Little Ray
I think the correct way to interpret Scalia's comment is that given the state of Constitutional Law, as created by a rouge Supreme Court that makes stuff up as it goes along, no state can now make abortion illegal. However, if the Supreme Court hadn't over-reached its power, then a state could make abortion illegal.
That is, the "Constitutionality" of the issue is a reference to the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution, and Scalia thinks the Supreme Court is WRONG. He goes on to note that it is also PROUD, and will not reverse itself, hence the need for a Constitutional Amendment.
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posted on
03/15/2005 6:59:45 AM PST
by
Cboldt
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