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| Articles about Scalia |
| Jefferson would have hated Scalia. | | 2008-07-02 16:02:16 | | In the United States, we hold the Constitution as sacrosanct. Rightfully or not, we honor it as the longest continuously observed ruling document and as a document which can be amended only with some measure of "national agreement." A strong debate that we often see in 5-4 Supreme Court decisions is the question of whether Justices should rule by the letter of the law or by... | | By: Poli-Think | | |
| | | The Scalia Chin Shuffle | | 2006-03-27 22:45:00 | | Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been a major topic of discussion across the country today for reportedly flipping the bird at the media as he was leaving Sunday mass in Boston. Thoughts on this from bloggers and the MSM have been varied, ranging from amusement to admonishment. Some people don't even seem to think he should be a Supreme Court justice if he can't act in a more dignified manner. (Most of those people were also probably right behind Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, but that's to be expected.)What you're not hearing very much about is the question that provoked Scalia's response, which the AP now reports was actually a dismissive Italian hand gesture. You've probably seen it before; the post title is a fairly accurate description of what it looks like. I have yet to find an exact quote of the question. However, according to the article above, a reporter from the Boston Herald asked Scalia, as he was leaving Catholic mass, if he "faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state." Scalia's response makes sense in that context:You know what I say to those people? *makes hand gesture* That's Sicilian.The implication here is subtle, but it reeks of anti-Catholicism. If you honestly believe that Catholics cannot think independently of the Pope (as people used to back when JFK ran for President, which is why it was such a huge deal that he won), then you might come up with a question like that. You would also have a response similar to Scalia's if you were used to hearing this kind of stuff all the time. It's also disturbing because a line of questions not far from this one was levied at Chief Justice John Roberts during his confirmation hearings. Roberts is also Catholic. Honestly, who has the nerve to ask him a question like that? It appears to have a logical basis at first, but ultimately it becomes a thinly-veiled attack on what someone stands for and assumes that their j... | | By: The Unknown Blogger | | |
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