Scalia Slams 'Living Constitution'

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/05/050505scalia.htm

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Thursday said the public - not the courts - should make decisions on controversial issues such as abortion, the death penalty and gay rights.

He said too many courts are interpreting the Constitution as a document that evolves with society, but that he believes it should be interpreted as it was written.

"The Constitution is not a living organism. It is a legal document ... and like all legal documents it doesn't change," Scalia told about 1,000 people during a 30-minute speech at the George Bush Presidential Library Center at Texas A&M University.

[Arkana]

1. Right, but he didn't seem to think Bush v. Gore should

have been left up to the public. Hypocritical fuckstick.

[Bluebear]

14. can't let this one sink without looking one more time

[Hugin]

2. Ummm... Hey, duck hustler there's a whole section of *amendments*

added over the last couple of hundred years.

They're part of the Constitution!

They *CHANGE* the Constitution.

MORAN!

[paineinthearse]

3. Bullcrap!

When Thomas Jefferson returned from France to find citizens' basic rights had not been included in the Constitution, he lobbied for the Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments).

I imagine Scalia would have been in opposition to Jefferson?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Thou imaginest rightly. (nt)

[lastliberalintexas]

16. Scalia would have certainly opposed Jefferson

I wouldn't even say that Scalia would have been in with Hamilton and the Federalists, either. Scalia would have been a Torry.

[tabasco]

4. Even my conservative professors in law school ...

thought Scalia was a dangerous whack-job.

[ET Awful]

5. So tell me oh Dark and Scaley One

Is it not true that if the Constitution was not changed, there are certain of your Supreme Court brethren that would not be allowed to hold the position, or, for that matter, would not be free but would be the property of some southern plantation owner?

Others of your peers would not be allowed the position because they are women (and, for that matter, they would not be allowed to vote).

Should I continue?

We could talk about how the Constitution only allows for an Army and a Navy, thus the Air Force is not a recognized entity and any funds spend on it are unconstitutional according to Scaley.

We could have fun with this.

[0007]

6. ......yeah, crank out those phony voting machines and let's vote!!

Scalia should be ashamed of himself for saying something so stupid.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. Doesn't the first statement contradict the second statement?

I must be dense. :shrug:

Hmmm... it should be as it is written but the public should decide based on the current flavor of the month what is law? :crazy:

[shraby]

8. Is Scalia getting senile?

Seriously, his recent statements and actions show that something is awry in his brain.

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. It's that horrid GOP disease

It's an all consuming disease that takes the brain and makes the logic part go to sleep.

[Jacobin]

18. Oh no. He's bee nuts since birth. See my sig line

[Skidmore]

9. So, someone tell me why we aren't protesting this activist judge?

[paineinthearse]

11. Will someone tell me why

1. This post is receiving so little attention.
2. Received only 1 "greatest" vote over its first 24 hours?

[K-W]

13. Because it is old news.

Scalia is a partisan hack.

[K-W]

12. He is a liar.

He doesnt believe that in the slightest.

[gratuitous]

17. Dog whistle political pronouncement

Fat Tony's signalling the biblical literalists that he's on their side, and makes a fatuous pronouncement like this to curry favor with an incredibly gullible segment of society, and they hear the message loud and clear, like a dog hearing a dog whistle. Based on his actions rather than his public pronouncements, he doesn't believe a word of what he's saying, but his marks don't know that.

[Deja Q]

19. Gee, in 1965 I bet he'd say the opposite... or would he?

And since when, in America, does ANYBODY speak up for PEOPLES' RIGHTS?

It's always corporate this, or bribery that.

Scalia can go scale himself. He'll find he's as dense as a neutron star.

[sweetheart]

20. Oh yea, at TAMU

At the nexus of the new nazi racist right wing, Texas A $ M... so
little is suprising from these foul scum... and scalia is just another
spike in the leather collar.

The library at the public land grant university in texas belongs to
the public, not to some criminal scumbag lowlife from connecticut.
.. but hey, them Aggies Ar stupid and ezily duped.... dumb fuckers.
So send a priest of the antichrist to the library of satan to deliver
a message on the resumption of slavery.

I've sat on that same campus, in civil war history graduduate classes,
as the minority amongst a majority that wished for slavery and a
revival of the new plantation state. Seems they got their wish, and
they can keep the buggers in their stinking hot sweaty hell.

Ain't it all so damn perfect. ;-)