Ditto. He's a dipstick and his face matches.
Posted on 06/27/2012 11:48:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court.
He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and teacher. He’d be a heck of a columnist and blogger. But he really seems to aspire to being a politician — and that’s the problem.
So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. He’s turned “judicial restraint” into an oxymoronic phrase. But what he did this week, when the court announced its decision on the Arizona immigration law, should be the end of the line.
Not content with issuing a fiery written dissent, Scalia offered a bench statement questioning President Obama’s decision to allow some immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children to stay. Obama’s move had nothing to do with the case in question. Scalia just wanted you to know where he stood.
“After this case was argued and while it was under consideration, the secretary of homeland security announced a program exempting from immigration enforcement some 1.4 million illegal immigrants,” Scalia said. “The president has said that the new program is ‘the right thing to do’ in light of Congress’s failure to pass the administration’s proposed revision of the immigration laws. Perhaps it is, though Arizona may not think so. But to say, as the court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of federal immigration law that the president declines to enforce boggles the mind.”
What boggles the mind is that Scalia thought it proper to jump into this political argument. And when he went on to a broader denunciation of federal policies, he sounded just like an Arizona Senate candidate.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Which goes to explain why "conventional wisdom" inside the Beltway is so ill-informed and unreliable.
I think E.J. Dionne is interfering with the independence of the judiciary.
That's only one of hundreds of Italian hand gestures. That one is a mildly contemptuous gesture meaning, roughly, "nothing." You can use it to express what you got when you were expecting more (like, "Geez, could you spare it?"), or how little you care about a situation ("I couldn't care less.").
Ditto. He's a dipstick and his face matches.
Scalia to E. J. Dionne: “Bite me!”
It is so obvious, that any justice is wrong if he happens to be conservative...that seems to be the message.
The lockstep of Sotomayor and Ginzburg and Marshall and Brennan et al. - all that leftist boilerplate never seemed to bother him. That these leftist judges vote in a very predictable block on all these issues never seems to compel Dionne to ask the question if ‘they have any interfering political views’. The putrid problem is that leftists think that their whacked-out mindset dovetails perfectly with the Constitution and that any votes that their robots make are the right votes and needs no examination. (It is why Thurgood Marshall stopped reading and participating in the Court but told the clerks to sign on to anything William Brennan wrote! He didn’t need to think he had a leftist master.) If a judge is conservative - then he is automatically an ideologue and therefore not credible to serve on the Supreme Court. The arrogance of this astounds me.
Canada may well be oversubscribed in the category of brain dead liberals, but we have no need for this one at all. He needs to be there ~ not here!
E.J......eat me!
Mr. Dionne is off my reading list. He’s a wanker.
I think the suggested hand gesture involves the open hand being drawn accross the underside of the chin....and I think the gesture can mean anything from “go pound sand” to “go commit fornication upon yourself” to “drop dead!”
That's the wrong place to dispose of garbage. It stops up the sewer.
Man????
EJ Dionne needs to find a real job suitable for his pea brain like digging ditches
Love it when the flamingest of flaming morons reveal themselves. It leaves the rest of the afternoon free.
Leni
So EJ, alone, decides what a Supreme Court Justice is?
What a F’ing arrogant prick.
I hope he dies a horrible, painful death. Seriously.
I have zero tolerance for the left. Take that back, I have negative tolerance.
Nope it wouldn't; precisely because the Constitution talks about laws for a uniform law of naturalization, if such law is not being applied uniformly, how can such be Constitutional?
For instance, is he even aware that Justice Joseph Story wrote an entire work entitled, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States"? That volume concludes with the following assertion:
"§ 1907.
"If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of fife, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."(Underlining added for emphasis)
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