And Then He Flipped Them the Bird
Oh, Nino. What would we do without you?
Justice Scalia doesn't suffer fools gladly -- even if the fools are on his side :
Scalia dissented vigorously from the court's recent decisions that invoked foreign law to help strike down the death penalty for juveniles and laws against consensual homosexual conduct. In Congress, conservative Republicans responded angrily to the rulings and introduced bills that would either condemn or ban the court's use of foreign legal authorities.
But in his speech to a National Italian American Foundation luncheon attended by several House members, Scalia said, in effect, that he does not need any help.
"It's none of your business," he said, referring to Congress. "No one is more opposed to the use of foreign law than I am, but I'm darned if I think it's up to Congress to direct the court how to make its decisions."
Translation: "Sure, those liberal justices need to be slapped around sometimes. But those clowns are my clowns -- and I will do the slapping!"