Scalia - a national disgrace

[felonious thunk]

Any Justice, liberal, conservative or otherwise, should strive to be as apolitical as possible. If the situation(s) would be reversed, say Ruth Bader Ginsberg speaks at a PETA event a month before hearing a case involving PETA, I'd feel just as strongly about this. And imagine how up in arms the right would be.

Even if Thomas was doing this, he'd likely be having a hard time. But somehow Scalia gets a break. Scalia is an embarrassment to the Constitution. He is exactly the sort of activist judge his supporters decry. He is biased in every case. He has no business being on the Supreme Court. His rulings are based not on law, but on his skewed beliefs and the beliefs of the friends that keep him from having to adhere to legal precedent.

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1. Scalia Addressed Advocacy Group Before Key Decision

by Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage

WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court was weighing a landmark gay rights case last year, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a keynote dinner speech in Philadelphia for an advocacy group waging a legal battle against gay rights.

Scalia addressed the $150-a-plate dinner hosted by the Urban Family Council two months after hearing oral arguments in a challenge to a Texas law that made gay sex a crime. A month after the dinner, he sharply dissented from the high court's decision overturning the Texas law.

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Some experts on legal ethics said they saw no problem in Scalia's appearance before the group. But others say he should not have accepted the invitation because it calls into question his impartiality on an issue that looms increasingly large on the nation's legal agenda.

Scalia declined to comment on his appearance before the group.

Scalia's activities outside the court in two other instances — both involving hunting trips — have also drawn criticism for suggesting partiality on cases before his court. But the Philadelphia dinner May 20, unlike the other cases, shows him appearing to support partisan advocates on a hotly disputed issue.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0308-05.htm

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2. Hummm....

... can you imagine what the court would be like with eight more like-minded justices like Scalia?:nuke:

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3. Talk about your "activist judges"...

this piece of work needs to be impeached and dragged outy of the SCotUS by his nose.

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