Here's a thing Justice Scalia said during oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (AKA B. Hussein Soetoro's Diktat on the Punitive Application of Collectivist Death Panels v. Bald Eagle ) that is quite typical of him: "An equally evident constitutional principle is the principle that the Federal Government is a government of enumerated powers and that the vast majority of powers remain in the States and do not belong to the Federal Government. Do you acknowledge that that's a principle?"
The Founding Fathers....FATHERS that's right I said it, neither foresaw nor intended blacks to vote. Amirite, Tony? Keep it simple, simpleton.
Ugh. Voting Rights Act was in specific furtherance of an enumerated power (yes, the reconstruction amendments enumerate powers too!) but Roberts gave Congress no deference, and Scalia was perfectly fine with that because who gives a shit about blahs, right? Also <em>Shelby County</em> contains no discussion of standard of review and there was a conspicuous lack of wailing and gnashing of Nino&#039;s teeth.
DOMA on the other hand advances no enumerated power and Nino says that&#039;s just fine and we must just take Old Congress&#039; word that it&#039;s all perfectly legit what they did, and the lack of discussion of scrutiny means it&#039;s inevitable the Court will be mandating gay marriage next year (he actually says this, or something very similar!)
Yeah, there can be absolutely no doubt whatsoever in the mind of anyone who&#039;s actually read a few of Scalia&#039;s argle-bargles (ironic that he would accuse the liberals of that at the end of ~30 pages of his own) that his decisions are exclusively outcomes driven, because there is no other principal consistently applied.
Made irrelevant by the 16th Amendment since Senators are no longer chosen by state legislatures, they&#039;re elected by the people - there is no longer a &quot;Place of Chusing&quot;.
<i>vast majority of powers remain in the States and do not belong to the Federal Government</i>
Man, he has to stop reading the Articles of Confederation. If you&#039;re going to get micro about it, the powers remain with &quot;We the People&quot; and not the States or the Feds.
The Founding Fathers....FATHERS that&#039;s right I said it, neither foresaw nor intended blacks to vote. Amirite, Tony? Keep it simple, simpleton.
Ugh. Voting Rights Act was in specific furtherance of an enumerated power (yes, the reconstruction amendments enumerate powers too!) but Roberts gave Congress no deference, and Scalia was perfectly fine with that because who gives a shit about blahs, right? Also <em>Shelby County</em> contains no discussion of standard of review and there was a conspicuous lack of wailing and gnashing of Nino&#039;s teeth.
DOMA on the other hand advances no enumerated power and Nino says that&#039;s just fine and we must just take Old Congress&#039; word that it&#039;s all perfectly legit what they did, and the lack of discussion of scrutiny means it&#039;s inevitable the Court will be mandating gay marriage next year (he actually says this, or something very similar!)
Yeah, there can be absolutely no doubt whatsoever in the mind of anyone who&#039;s actually read a few of Scalia&#039;s argle-bargles (ironic that he would accuse the liberals of that at the end of ~30 pages of his own) that his decisions are exclusively outcomes driven, because there is no other principal consistently applied.
Where in the constitution does it say gays are icky?
Sometimes I think about kittens, instead. For my health.
Gay marriage doesn&#039;t really affect profits, does it? I&#039;d been wondering why Scalia went pro-gay.
<i>&quot;Where in the Constitution does it say ____?&quot; </i>
... money is speech? ... Dubya should be president? ... life begins at conception? ... the death penalty isn&#039;t cruel? .
see also: medical MJ
that asshat gives me whiplash trying to pin his supposed core principles
intellectually bankrupt, morally bankrupt and utter hypocrites
... corporations are people?
Made irrelevant by the 16th Amendment since Senators are no longer chosen by state legislatures, they&#039;re elected by the people - there is no longer a &quot;Place of Chusing&quot;.
<i>vast majority of powers remain in the States and do not belong to the Federal Government</i>
Man, he has to stop reading the Articles of Confederation. If you&#039;re going to get micro about it, the powers remain with &quot;We the People&quot; and not the States or the Feds.
It&#039;s the Scalia Alito Cult of the Red Beanie Army of God.
Sometimes I get the impression that these guys make the decision first, and then come up with an explanation.