NBC says Scalia Speaks His Mind, but it should probably read Scalia Shoots His Mouth Off.
Scalia is not interested in facts, jurisprudence, or the Constitution, only in his own ideology. He apparently supports the “imperial presidency” and not the rule of law.
While he should recuse himself from the latest Guantanamo case, I would be surprised if he had that much integrity left.
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i wish somebody would capture and torture him, that’s what i think about him. no rude hand gestures needed. the sicilian in my blood sans any roman catholic preoccupation has no trouble with this notion. none whatsoever. i can’t stand that partisan ideologue. may he rot in his roman catholic hell.
Amy, I like to see him go to Jerry Falwell’s heaven and leave the rest of us alone. I can’t accept their version of heaven as a reward.
The gesture just solidifies my image of him as trash. I worked with Sicilian cops, and they would never consider doing that when they could be identified. That’s something for hanging with your buddies, not public conferences. These people are just thugs.
true. in fact, it would be heaven on earth for me if they would all just rapture right now and leave the business of earth to the rest of us.
yeah, thug would be a better description except, even thugs have better manners i think…
but hey, there are more important things now…the red sox are introducing lottery tickets where you can win sox tickets for life among other things…woohoo!!!
When you are a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and in a foreign country you really shouldn’t engage in conduct that would cost an enlisted member of the military a stripe. You would think that a member of Opus Dei would have learned some manners.
These people are just rude.
I wish Scalia no explicit physical harm. But amy has it about right: if Scalia were raptured tomorrow, those of us who are determined to be “left behind” would not miss him for a moment. I’ve no idea what sort of Catholic he is, but it’s clear what sort of human being he is, and what sort of Justice he is. I’ll bet that the priest who said Mass is hiding out today from the media, so that he won’t have to say what surely is on his mind. What an embarrassment Tony Scalia must be to everyone who ever supported him.
And you’re right, Bryan: his remark about his Sicilian ancestry was an unwarranted slur on some very decent people. My father encountered more than a few of them during W.W. II, and had high praise for them (and Italians in general) as a group. Scalia should go back to the home of his ancestors and ask them what they think of his gesture, his personal and judicial arrogance, etc. I suspect he wouldn’t like their answers.
The Sicilians have enough problems trying to convince people they are not all mafiosi without dealing with jerks like Scalia. You don’t make yourself welcome by defining your ethnic origins and then acting like street scum.
Part of the problem with Scalia is that he’s read and re-read his own press to the point that he really believes that he’s the supremely intelligent ueber-judge that all his press makes him out to be (just like George Armstrong Custer really believed all the press that said he was the best Indian fighter in the frontier Army…).
I’ve always detested Scalia ever since I read a Newsweek “My Turn” piece that he wrote as a mere Federal appeals judge. Basically, the essay argued for the abolishment of Federal jurisdiction over “diversity of citizenship” cases (i.e., cases where the plaintiff and defendant are citizens of different states of the Union). These cases aren’t exactly beloved of the Federal judiciary, often because they turn on questions of state law.
If you want to do an in-depth study, there are good arguments for abolishment (or at least curtailment) of diversity cases. However, Scalia’s argument, in a nutshell, was that diversity jurisdiction should be abolished because such cases were beneath him; that he became a Federal judge to decide important questions of Federal law, not judge piddling matters under state law.
Whatta dick. Frankly, I hope he chokes to death on his lobster or filet mignon sometime. And I sure as hell won’t weep any tears if that should happen.
It sounds like the complaints I used to get about having to write parking tickets, it’s beneath my dignity.
Scalia, another “legend in his own mind”.