Scalia, ACLU head face off in TV debate

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Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday defended some of his Supreme Court opinions, arguing that nothing in the Constitution supports abortion rights and the use of race in school admissions.

Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, sparred in a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen. He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues.

Arguing that liberal judges in the past improperly established new political rights such as abortion, Scalia warned, "Someday, you're going to get a very conservative Supreme Court and regret that approach."


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"I'm very distressed about your failure to find protections in the Constitution for the right of consenting individuals in their homes to decide what they see and read, and what type of sexual relations they have," she said as hundreds of ACLU audience members cheered.
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[Erika]

1. You have the Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts arguing

for the fundie position as their stepping stone to Christian theocracy.

[BlueStateModerate]

2. While I'm absolutely pro-choice...

I really don't think that anything in the Constitution applies to abortion. In some state constitutions, maybe, but I just don't see it in the national constitution. The right to privacy isn't even clearly in there, and the right to abortion is a derivation of that. Kind of stretching it.

[Rainscents]

3. Maybe you better re-read it again.

:crazy: PRIVACY is in the constitution. It's my right to choose whatever the hell, I choose to do with my body and it's your right to CHOOSE whatever you want to do with your body. PLEASE, Do NOT tell me or anyone else, what to do with their body. Constitution is about CHOICE and PRIVACY!

[DBoon]

4. Griswal vs. Connecticut lead to Roe v. Wade

the ability of couple to use contraception was deemed a private matter into which the state ought not intrude.

[frogbison]

6. A wise decision

that may have given way to unimagined consequences. Of course it had to happen, as what is right and true always does, eventually.

[hootinholler]

7. Something about being secure in their persons?

Oh, and papers and property too.

-Hoot

[izzybeans]

8. "So called" anyway

"secure in their persons" could mean just about anything. :sarcasm:

[aquart]

5. Ask him what supports interfering in a presidential election.