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Showing Original Post only (View all)Scalia: Constitution is ‘dead, dead, dead’ [View all]
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.
Its not a living document, Scalia said, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News. Its 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.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/279789-scalia-constitution-is-dead-dead-dead#ixzz2JO4Hi7vI
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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
The government of the Bill of Rights instead of the government of the Constitution.
DhhD
Jan 2013
#44
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
Scalia is the experiment that this country needed to go through to convince us once and for all
Baitball Blogger
Jan 2013
#18
You're right. Reagan had originally considered Bork when he nominated Scalia instead.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#25
If this is the case, then we do not actually have liberty or self-determination, but
NinetySix
Jan 2013
#22
I Guess It's Only A Living Document When We Consider the Second Amendment.....nt
global1
Jan 2013
#30
no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years
Lesmoderesstupides
Jan 2013
#70
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
Then since his job is to defend it, he should be "unemployed, unemployed, unemployed"
wickerwoman
Jan 2013
#83
If the Constitution is dead then doesn't that mean there shouldn't be any USSCJ's?
LiberalFighter
Jan 2013
#86