The Rude Pundit: Antonin Scalia Doesn't Give a Damn About Your Little Problems

[Laxman]

3. Unfortunately mean & hateful people seem to live to 100...

How he is considered some kind of Constitutional scholar is mind boggling.

Scalia also said that he didn't give much of a thought for the Bill of Rights, that it was an "afterthought" by the writers of the Constitution, and that "Every tinhorned dictator in the world has a bill of rights." So we have a Supreme Court Justice who admits that he thinks the amendments to the Constitution are useless and he derided the idea of a "living constitution." All of which is quite odd, considering that Article V of the Constitution is about how to amend the thing...

To use some fancy Supreme Court type words, the Bill or Rights was the sine qua non for the adoption of the Constitution. No Bill of Rights-No Constitution. It would never have been adopted. One of the central themes of the Federalist Papers. Just another example of the hypocritical thinking and flexible moral backbone of the modern day conservatives. Maybe we can all give him the 'malocchio'.