antonin scalia

Yesterday I pointed out that the SCOTUS decision in the Exxon Valdez disaster case is obvious judicial activism, with the Justices determining tort policy and micromanaging a jury decision of a corporate political campaign contributor without showing any jury irrationality.

If you have a beef with the election fiasco of 2000, Justice Scalia wants you to talk to the hand — of Al Gore:

The U.S. Supreme Court has told Bush that his offshore detainee prison camps are unconstitutional and illegal. For the third time.

Dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia said "It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."

I recently wrote a post titled ‘Democrats Disenfranchise Tennessee Voters’.

After reading this poignant Thomas Sowell quote about the McCain candidacy,

"Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him.

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Simplicity is praised and inner thoughts revealed by the nation's Supreme Court Justices in a series of video interviews which have been made available on the internet.

The growing popularity of those videos and the comments made on them were featured in a recent article from Law.com (click here for their story). Some samples:

In a maze of hypotheticals and imaginings, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (along with many in the highest level of government) sort of talks about why he thinks the use of torture to get information is an acceptable policy of American jurisprudence. I'm left with far more questions as the debate and discussion of the uses of torture contiues.