Supreme Court Justice Scalia is even crazier than you think.....

[Jade Fox]

Scalia is now using the TV show "24" to explain the Constitution....

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/06/scalia_and_tort.html

The Supreme Court Justice cites Jack Bauer and the Hollywood torture show "24" as relevant background for constitutional jurisprudence:

"Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. ... He saved hundreds of thousands of lives," Judge Scalia said. Then, recalling Season 2, where the agent's rough interrogation tactics saved California from a terrorist nuke, the Supreme Court judge etched a line in the sand.
"Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.

"So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes."
Earth to Justice Scalia: Jack Bauer does not exist. But the assumption that he does can lead to a lot of unusual places:


Even if a real terrorist who suffered mistreatment is released because of complaints of abuse, Judge Scalia said, the interruption to the terrorist's plot would have ensured "in Los Angeles everyone is safe." During a break from the panel, Judge Scalia specifically mentioned the segment in Season 2 when Jack Bauer finally figures out how to break the die-hard terrorist intent on nuking L.A. The real genius, the judge said, is that this is primarily done with mental leverage. "There's a great scene where he told a guy that he was going to have his family killed," Judge Scalia said. "They had it on closed circuit television - and it was all staged. ... They really didn't kill the family."

[Lasher]

1. I just had to open this thread.

Crazier than I already think Scalia is? That is a very high hurdle indeed. Don't tell me, he started crying. Quack quack.

[lyonn]

2. I thought this was a joke! Sorry to say it's not

This was during a conference in Canada that Scalia made these comments. This guy needs a mental evaluation and quick....

[Jade Fox]

3. Yes, he does need a mental evaluation!!

At least that.

[UTUSN]

4. Dan QUAYLE was ridiculed out of office for fighting a fictional Murphy Brown

Standards have dropped----well, obviously, if Shrub can be in the WH...who can't?!!1

[mentalsolstice]

5. I guess I went to law school 20 years too early!

Back in the olden days (I took Con Law I & II in 1988-89) we had to pore through hornbooks and treatises 'til the early morning hours. To think, all you have to do these days is watch an hour-long TV show!

And I also had to walk 10 miles in the snow, barefoot, to get to my classes...

[Patsy Stone]

6. You'll notice

that he didn't draw references from Law & Order. Doesn't his TV get that show?

[originalpckelly]

7. Isn't he usually pissed off about the SCOTUS members quoting foreign laws...

as justifications for their decisions? Of course I guess 24 is an American show, so there's not a conflict.

:puke: