[stephenjohnbanker]

” JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? [banning cruel and unusual punishment] You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? “

Best line of the hearings, so far.

[In Maryland]

We do have a runner-up - also from Scalia:

"JUSTICE SCALIA: Is there any dictionary that gives that

-MR. FARR: I'm sorry, Justice Scalia?

JUSTICE SCALIA: -- that definition of "essential"? It's very imaginative. Just give me one dictionary.

MR. FARR: Well, but I think my point, Justice Scalia, is that they are not using it in the true dictionary sense.

JUSTICE SCALIA: How do we know that? When people speak, I assume they are speaking English.

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Ohime, Giudice Scalia. Che un bigotta! Congresso hai sempre in bocca l'italiana. Non e ver? Si, Congresso scrive la legge in italiana. O in keniota!

[Alas, Judge Scalia. What a bigot! Congress always speaks Italian. Isn't it true? Yes, Congress wrote the law in Italian. Or in Kenyan!]