Tue Jan 29, 2013, 12:38 PM

kpete (38,895 posts)

Scalia: Constitution is ‘dead, dead, dead’

Source: The Hill

Scalia: Constitution is ‘dead, dead, dead’
By Jonathan Easley - 01/29/13 09:11 AM ET

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia emphatically rebutted the notion that the Constitution is a living document in a lecture at Southern Methodist University on Monday.

“It’s not a living document,” Scalia said, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News. “It’s dead, dead, dead.”

Scalia also told the crowd that sometimes the decisions he arrives at are not in concert with his political convictions.

“The judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge,” he said.

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Scalia: Constitution is ‘dead, dead, dead’ (Original post)	kpete	Jan 2013	OP
So... no one other than land-owning white guys should ever have been allowed to vote?	villager	Jan 2013	#1
Apparently so. On the up side, he now has to face the fact that him impoverished Italian immigrant	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#60
Who foisted this asshole on our country?	Scairp	Jan 2013	#74
The problem with Supreme Asshole Fat Tony is..	PerceptionManagement	Jan 2013	#75
Yet another reason	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#2
So explain the amendment process, Fat Tony	demwing	Jan 2013	#3
I vastly prefer the other version.....	Ian Iam	Jan 2013	#8
The government of the Bill of Rights instead of the government of the Constitution.	DhhD	Jan 2013	#44
Living dead?	R. Daneel Olivaw	Jan 2013	#14
It's an Amendment Apocalypse!	demwing	Jan 2013	#15
Yes, due in no small part to that presidential selection you made a little over a decade ago. n/t	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#4
If it is dead	lrellok	Jan 2013	#5
I think he should resign	Angry Dragon	Jan 2013	#6
+1	sakabatou	Jan 2013	#39
I think we should resign	demwing	Jan 2013	#56
Why is his opinion	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Jan 2013	#7
same question I have about rand paul n/t	wilt the stilt	Jan 2013	#17
So he swore to defend a dead thing?	malthaussen	Jan 2013	#9
Nice of him to gloat about it nt	NoGOPZone	Jan 2013	#10
Then quit Tony.	Botany	Jan 2013	#11
Exactly... or explain how corporations now = people. That rat fucker!	kysrsoze	Jan 2013	#29
Somebody's gotta get that man an evaluation. nt	msanthrope	Jan 2013	#12
OK Scalia, let's try to find some common ground.	robertpaulsen	Jan 2013	#13
Well, if there's one man who knows what it takes to be a "bad judge" it's Tony.	Scuba	Jan 2013	#16
Scalia is the experiment that this country needed to go through to convince us once and for all	Baitball Blogger	Jan 2013	#18
He was needed to make it clear there's no such thing as a "strict constructionist"	JHB	Jan 2013	#42
Scalia is a weirdo.	yardwork	Jan 2013	#19
Scalia was not Bork's replacement	n2doc	Jan 2013	#23
You're right. Reagan had originally considered Bork when he nominated Scalia instead.	yardwork	Jan 2013	#25
Scalia is dead, dead, dead wrong.	SunSeeker	Jan 2013	#20
What a sick fuck....so what's he saying? Don't even try for an ERA?	MADem	Jan 2013	#21
If this is the case, then we do not actually have liberty or self-determination, but	NinetySix	Jan 2013	#22
It was the intent	John2	Jan 2013	#73
He's Just As Unhinged As So Many Of Us Have Suspected. (nt)	Paladin	Jan 2013	#24
Jefferson, on reform of the Virginia Constitution	Klukie	Jan 2013	#26
I just sent this to the SCOTUS	demwing	Jan 2013	#35
I read that in Stephen Dillane's voice.	MessiahRp	Jan 2013	#37
So the Air Force is unconstitutional?	broadcaster75201	Jan 2013	#27
Poor Tony....	Plucketeer	Jan 2013	#28
I Guess It's Only A Living Document When We Consider the Second Amendment.....nt	global1	Jan 2013	#30
Bye Bye standing Army	LeftInTX	Jan 2013	#31
Back to the Militias.	DhhD	Jan 2013	#47
"The Congress shall have Power .... To raise and support Armies,..."	hack89	Jan 2013	#55
no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years	Lesmoderesstupides	Jan 2013	#70
Stupid NAZI gangster even talks like a mafiosi.	Octafish	Jan 2013	#32
So now the constitution is pick & choose.	Crowman1979	Jan 2013	#33
ok mr opus dei, is the bible dead then?	pansypoo53219	Jan 2013	#34
This message was hidden by jury decision.	AlexDeLarge	Jan 2013	#36
That phrase should describe the judicial careers	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#38
Scalia, How Dead Was The Constitution	DallasNE	Jan 2013	#40
Jack Rabbit: Scalia's mind is "dead, dead, dead"	Jack Rabbit	Jan 2013	#41
The 2nd Amendment needs to be reworded,changed or removed. The US has the federal Armed Forces; no	DhhD	Jan 2013	#49
. . . because the Founding Fathers did not inted to maintain a standing army	Jack Rabbit	Jan 2013	#65
The actual question was	Madmiddle	Jan 2013	#43
The only thing dead about the Constitution is	Old and In the Way	Jan 2013	#45
Yep, he just hates what's in it.	GoCubsGo	Jan 2013	#61
How does he get away with continually saying this?	Blue_Tires	Jan 2013	#46
Same answer to pretty much every political question	bongbong	Jan 2013	#53
Rocktivity: Scalia is	rocktivity	Jan 2013	#48
Just like his brain, brain, brain.	AzDar	Jan 2013	#50
But you liked the outcome of Bush V Gore didn't you Tony?	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#51
I don't think that's what he is saying.	GoCubsGo	Jan 2013	#64
Va fanculo, Antonio.	geardaddy	Jan 2013	#52
So Scalia....	cynzke	Jan 2013	#54
He'd say it was never alive.	Igel	Jan 2013	#68
Somebody give this idiot a remidial class on Common Law.	Odin2005	Jan 2013	#57
And Scalia and his compadres killed it	Demeter	Jan 2013	#58
Scalia: My brain is dead, dead, dead.	GoCubsGo	Jan 2013	#59
Tony is always right. Just ask him.	MissMarple	Jan 2013	#62
So the right to bear arms is dead?	Lint Head	Jan 2013	#63
he's used that line before.	unblock	Jan 2013	#66
While he may think otherwise, that's just his interpretation.	Hosnon	Jan 2013	#67
It's dead until something like DC vs Heller comes along	high density	Jan 2013	#69
Hey Tony! Clarence Thomas would still be a slave under your interpretation of	muntrv	Jan 2013	#71
Scalia's ability to reason fairly and logically is dead, dead, dead. nt	Zorra	Jan 2013	#72
Finally, We Can Rescind The Second Amendment	cantbeserious	Jan 2013	#76
I know on the day this happens	davidpdx	Jan 2013	#77
meaning only muskets should be allowed	ZRT2209	Jan 2013	#78
I hate when I misread OPs. nt	Incitatus	Jan 2013	#79
and he helped kill it when he selected Dubya for President.	olddad56	Jan 2013	#80
Hey, Scanklia...	SoapBox	Jan 2013	#81
Sounds like a confession of murder to me.	aquart	Jan 2013	#82
Then since his job is to defend it, he should be "unemployed, unemployed, unemployed"	wickerwoman	Jan 2013	#83
YES, YES, YES	47of74	Jan 2013	#88
yet corporations are alive and killing us?	RedCloud	Jan 2013	#84
He was talking to his Pleasure Pickle	BudHardener	Jan 2013	#85
If the Constitution is dead then doesn't that mean there shouldn't be any USSCJ's?	LiberalFighter	Jan 2013	#86
I'll be damned. The guilty do return to the scene of the crime.	Thor_MN	Jan 2013	#87
Yup and guess who killed it? (hint: Bush v. Gore)	Initech	Jan 2013	#89
he is very conservative & sometimes a smartass, I don't think he ever took bribes for him and wife.	Sunlei	Jan 2013	#90
Well, he did do his part to kill it by selecting Bush in 2000	lunatica	Jan 2013	#91

Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 12:40 PM

villager (18,983 posts)

1. So... no one other than land-owning white guys should ever have been allowed to vote?

Well, thanks for being honest, at least, Scalia.

Scalia: Constitution is ‘dead, dead, dead’

1. So... no one other than land-owning white guys should ever have been allowed to vote?

60. Apparently so. On the up side, he now has to face the fact that him impoverished Italian immigrant

74. Who foisted this asshole on our country?

75. The problem with Supreme Asshole Fat Tony is..

2. Yet another reason

3. So explain the amendment process, Fat Tony

8. I vastly prefer the other version.....

44. The government of the Bill of Rights instead of the government of the Constitution.

14. Living dead?

15. It's an Amendment Apocalypse!

4. Yes, due in no small part to that presidential selection you made a little over a decade ago. n/t

5. If it is dead

6. I think he should resign

39. +1

56. I think we should resign

7. Why is his opinion

17. same question I have about rand paul n/t

9. So he swore to defend a dead thing?

10. Nice of him to gloat about it nt

11. Then quit Tony.

29. Exactly... or explain how corporations now = people. That rat fucker!

12. Somebody's gotta get that man an evaluation. nt

13. OK Scalia, let's try to find some common ground.

16. Well, if there's one man who knows what it takes to be a "bad judge" it's Tony.

18. Scalia is the experiment that this country needed to go through to convince us once and for all

42. He was needed to make it clear there's no such thing as a "strict constructionist"

19. Scalia is a weirdo.

23. Scalia was not Bork's replacement

25. You're right. Reagan had originally considered Bork when he nominated Scalia instead.

20. Scalia is dead, dead, dead wrong.

21. What a sick fuck....so what's he saying? Don't even try for an ERA?

22. If this is the case, then we do not actually have liberty or self-determination, but

73. It was the intent

24. He's Just As Unhinged As So Many Of Us Have Suspected. (nt)

26. Jefferson, on reform of the Virginia Constitution

35. I just sent this to the SCOTUS

37. I read that in Stephen Dillane's voice.

27. So the Air Force is unconstitutional?

28. Poor Tony....

30. I Guess It's Only A Living Document When We Consider the Second Amendment.....nt

31. Bye Bye standing Army

47. Back to the Militias.

55. "The Congress shall have Power .... To raise and support Armies,..."

70. no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years

32. Stupid NAZI gangster even talks like a mafiosi.

33. So now the constitution is pick & choose.

34. ok mr opus dei, is the bible dead then?

38. That phrase should describe the judicial careers

40. Scalia, How Dead Was The Constitution

41. Jack Rabbit: Scalia's mind is "dead, dead, dead"

49. The 2nd Amendment needs to be reworded,changed or removed. The US has the federal Armed Forces; no

65. . . . because the Founding Fathers did not inted to maintain a standing army

43. The actual question was

45. The only thing dead about the Constitution is

61. Yep, he just hates what's in it.

46. How does he get away with continually saying this?

53. Same answer to pretty much every political question

48. Rocktivity: Scalia is

50. Just like his brain, brain, brain.

51. But you liked the outcome of Bush V Gore didn't you Tony?

64. I don't think that's what he is saying.

52. Va fanculo, Antonio.

54. So Scalia....

68. He'd say it was never alive.

57. Somebody give this idiot a remidial class on Common Law.

58. And Scalia and his compadres killed it

59. Scalia: My brain is dead, dead, dead.

62. Tony is always right. Just ask him.

63. So the right to bear arms is dead?

66. he's used that line before.

67. While he may think otherwise, that's just his interpretation.

69. It's dead until something like DC vs Heller comes along

71. Hey Tony! Clarence Thomas would still be a slave under your interpretation of

72. Scalia's ability to reason fairly and logically is dead, dead, dead. nt

76. Finally, We Can Rescind The Second Amendment

77. I know on the day this happens

78. meaning only muskets should be allowed

79. I hate when I misread OPs. nt

80. and he helped kill it when he selected Dubya for President.