Even in Agreement, Scalia Puts Roberts to Lash

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NY Times

It’s not every day that one Supreme Court justice, even one as rhetorically unrestrained as Justice Antonin Scalia, characterizes another justice, let alone the chief justice of the United States, as a wimp and a hypocrite.

Yet Justice Scalia did something very close to that, not once but twice, in separate opinions on Monday. As a result, he has served to lift the curtain a bit on the differences within the powerful five-justice conservative bloc that has marched in lock step through much of the term, bent on reshaping the law and, in several important areas, well on the way toward doing so.

In the campaign finance case, he accused Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. of “faux judicial modesty” for writing an opinion that in Justice Scalia’s view effectively overturned the court’s 2003 campaign finance decision “without saying so.” The clear implication was that the chief justice lacked the courage or honesty to overturn the precedent openly as Justice Scalia himself would have done.

“This faux judicial restraint is judicial obfuscation,” he said.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/washington/28memo.html?hp

[Spinzonner]

1. Think maybe there'll be a duel ?

Besmirching one's honor should not go unchallenged

[tularetom]

2. Maybe he's still pissed he didn't get the chief justice job

after all the strings he pulled for the boy king, like making him pres when he actually lost. Could be interesting down the road.

[aquart]

7. Good. Hope it eats his liver. And pancreas.

[Skittles]

9. of course that's what it is

besides being a supreme asshole, Scalia is one jealous bastard

[Fovea]

3. Be A Proud Straussian

don't just wear your badge and cap in private meetings.
Give the secret handshake in public-- use the password in conversation.

[Neshanic]

4. Meowwwww! "Peppermint Patty Roberts" may get in a snit.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. ROFL. Scalia and Roberts. meowwww indeed!

:rofl: :toast: MKJ

[rwenos]

6. Scalia is an Asshole

He has a long history of insulting dissenting opinions, usually read from the bench so that his antagonists (usually Justices Ginzburg, Stevens and Kennedy) have to listen to the insults.

He has a poor judicial temperament, and is intellectually dishonest.

[depakid]

16. He's also unethical

and if he were a state judge, he'd have long since been called before a judicial conduct committee.

[DFW]

8. This is of no comfort to us

It's more like two Gestapo officers bickering over who is the better Nazi.

They can dis each other all they want. Neither of them is ever going to make a ruling
in favor of the individual or against a corporation or the Republican Party.

That's what counts, not which of the two of them is to the right of the other.

[Skittles]

10. like picking the better Melendez brother

yup

[David__77]

11. Right, Himmler vs. Goering.

I would add that Scalia is more Himmler.

[The Stranger]

14. Not necessarily.

If the Left/"liberal" wing of the Court is worth its weight in dogshit, it can discern subtle differences in jurisprudence that divide the Right/"conservative" wing, decide to take cases that exploit that division, and win at least a stalemate on certain issues.

[ClintonTyree]

12. I'm SO glad the Dems "kept their powder dry"....

during the confirmation hearings of Alito and Roberts. :grr: I mean, it isn't like any on these decisions actually MEAN anything or have any consequences for our country. :eyes:

Yep, the Congressional Dems have a shitload of dry powder saved now, ready for the really BIG issues facing our country when they arise. :sarcasm: I have some suggestions as to what they can do with all of that dry powder they've saved. :mad: Thanks for saddling us with Alito and Roberts. That was a real slick move there. Gutless worms!

[catmandu57]

13. All that dry powder they're sitting on

might just blow up in their faces come election time, we need to find some fighters.

[AndyTiedye]

15. They Kept Their Powder Dry Because It Was Only Bath Powder Anyway