Scalia Dissent: I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy

Supreme Court.gov ^ | 26 Jun 15 | Antonin Scalia

[redleghunter]

Here's an interesting excerpt:

Scalia dissenting at 5-6:

Not surpris­ingly then, the Federal Judiciary is hardly a cross-section of America. Take, for example, this Court, which consists of only nine men and women, all of them successful lawyers who studied at Harvard or Yale Law School. Four of the nine are natives of New York City. Eight of them grew up in east- and west-coast States. Only one hails from the vast expanse in-between. Not a single South-westerner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner (California does not count). Not a single evangelical Christian (a group that comprises about one quarter of Americans), or even a Protestant of any denomination. The strikingly unrepresentative character of the body voting on today's social upheaval would be irrelevant if they were functioning as judges, answering the legal question whether the American people had ever ratified a constitutional provision that was understood to proscribe the traditional definition of marriage. But of course the Justices in today's majority are not voting on that basis; they say they are not. And to allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

[Grampa Dave]

Some of the most vile fascist/people in America are Harvard/Yale scum, and the worst are the lawyers from these two elite universities.

The rest of us are low class scum to them. Their mission is to control us via the courts and the mediots controlled by them.

“Not surpris­ingly then, the Federal Judiciary is hardly a cross-section of America. Take, for example, this Court, which consists of only nine men and women, all of them successful lawyers who studied at Harvard or Yale Law School. Four of the nine are natives of New York City. Eight of them grew up in east- and west-coast States. Only one hails from the vast expanse in-between. Not a single South-westerner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner (California does not count). Not a single evangelical Christian (a group that comprises about one quarter of Americans), or even a Protestant of any denomination. The strikingly unrepresentative character of the body voting on today’s social upheaval would be irrelevant if they were functioning as judges, answering the legal question whether the American people had ever ratified a constitutional provision that was understood to proscribe the traditional definition of marriage. But of course the Justices in today’s majority are not voting on that basis; they say they are not. And to allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.”

[Elsie]

We are done and I’m afraid Obama has won.

I guess we'll just HAVE to pay the higher taxes on tea after all.

Boo hoo; boo hoo

[Theodore R.]

I generally believe in Scalia but not his court and not “democracy”.

[Theodore R.]

Ronald Reagan was tricking us back in 1988, but I don’t think he knew that. Didn’t do his judicial homework but chopped wood nicely.

[Theodore R.]

An amendment is already failed before it begins. The American people don’t like constitutional amendments.

[xzins]

I think he was using ‘democracy’ because the crowds don’t understand the word ‘republic’.

[Theodore R.]

I never thought the Soviets would disband, and I surely don’t think the Americans would.

[Theodore R.]

Actually, in a surprise, the more liberal candidate lost the race for mayor of San Antonio this month. It’s a non-partisan election, but Leticia Van de Putte, Dan Patrick’s 2014 opponent, lost her bid for mayor.

[Theodore R.]

Well, I sat out John Cornball and George P. Bush.

[Bluewater2015]

I never thought the Soviets would disband, and I surely don’t think the Americans would.

---

That’s just it. 30 years ago, no one foresaw the breakup of the Soviet Union. History, and political events, have a habit of sandbagging us.

[dfwgator]

Perhaps it turned out that opposing the Soviet Union provided the glue that held America together, with the Soviet Union gone, we have struggled to figure out just what it is we stand for.

[Dat]

Exactly. Now that we are fighting Islamic terrorists, we are trying to do everything the polar opposite of what they would do. Sometimes the exact opposite of stupidity is just more stupidity.

[Robert Teesdale]

I’m thinking Scalia might do us all a bigger favor by leaving the Court and writing a tell-all book about what really goes on in there.

I'm thinking Scalia might do us all an even bigger favor by having this printed on his robe: