"Fat Tony" Scalia mentioned as possible successor to Justice Rehnquist

[DaveSZ]

Can you imagine a SC full of Scalias ruling from the bench for another 40 years?

:puke:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/politics/02SCAL.html?hp

In Re Scalia the Outspoken v. Scalia the Reserved
By ADAM LIPTAK

Published: May 2, 2004


PHILADELPHIA, April 29 — About 20 minutes into stock remarks in praise of the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia paused. "Everything I've said up to now," he told a hotel ballroom full of lawyers here on Thursday, "has been uncontroversial."

What followed was not.

In emphatic phrases punctuated by operatic gesticulation, he then launched into an attack on a series of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the last 40 years. The court was wrong, he said, to say the Constitution requires that lawyers be provided to poor people accused of crimes. It was wrong, too, to find that the First Amendment imposes limits on libel lawsuits.


"We have now determined," he continued, "that liberties exist under the federal Constitution — the right to abortion, the right to homosexual sodomy — which were so little rooted in the traditions of the American people that they were criminal for 200 years."

[DaveSZ]

1. We

We have to at least win back either the Senate or the WH this year, or it's curtains for America.

[0007]

2. This certainly wouldn't surprise me if it did occur -

[DaveSZ]

3. .

It would only happen in this political climate if we stay out of power in Washington I think.

This should be a rallying cry for us though.

[whistle]

4. This further explains the cosy relationship...

...that Scalia and Cheney have. Nice trade, Cheney's environmental policy review gets passed by the Supreme Court and Scalia gets the nomination and appointment as chief justice. If you plan to build a fascist state in America, you must first have all of your loyal soldiers in place, starting at the top.

[rebellious woman]

5. Scalia

All came to pass in 2000...God help us if another four
years.

[tabasco]

6. Scalia would oversee the destruction of democracy in the US

and proclaim that is what the Founding Fathers intended.

[Moderator]

7. locking

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