Scalia Defends Positions in TV Debate

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday defended some of his Supreme Court opinions, arguing that nothing in the Constitution supports abortion rights and the use of race in school admissions.

Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, sparred in a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen. He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues.

Arguing that liberal judges in the past improperly established new political rights such as abortion, Scalia warned, "Someday, you're going to get a very conservative Supreme Court and regret that approach."

"On controversial issues on stuff like homosexual rights, abortion, we debate with each other and persuade each other and vote on it either through representatives or a constitutional amendment," the Reagan appointee said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500480_pf.html

She's gonna "regret that approach"? It's not everyday that a Supreme Court Justice issues threats. I did find a pony, though. With Tony's vote, it looks as though Bush will have trouble with this court on his kiss-habaes-corpus-goodbye law:

"But during Sunday's debate, Scalia noted there were cases in which he and the ACLU agreed. They included rulings upholding flag burning and a 2004 opinion arguing that a U.S. citizen seized in Afghanistan in wartime could challenge his detention as an enemy combatant in U.S. courts."

[UTUSN]

1. Here's looking at YOU, asshole-SCALIA!!!!1111

[Joe Bacon]

2. Where does the Constitution allow judges to elect the President?

Hmmmm, I'd love to see that asshole explain that little bit of "judicial activism"!

[OKthatsIT]

6. WORD

[Nolo_Contendre]

3. Scalia is a vicious little maggot

Unfortunately, the bastard will likely live long enough to haunt the next generation of Americans, even after his self-serving ideology is chucked into the dustbin of history.

[shanti]

4. oh this is rich

"...He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues..."

does this include you, tony?!!

[Lexingtonian]

5. ya gotta love Fat Tony

All I know is, when he leaves the Court the thing is going to do a huge lurch- and go from being stuck in the Jim Crow era to the present.

[xchrom]

7. there are many scalias waiting in the wings.

right wingers think long term -- and they are -- everyday -- doing their best to create the america they want.