Scalia Criticizes Politicizing of Judges

[gottaB]

PHILADELPHIA — Judges have become too much like politicians, with the unfortunate result that picking new ones has become needlessly partisan and time-consuming, Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday.

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to "do what the people want," instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically, Scalia said.

"So politics has made itself known," he told an audience of the Philadelphia Bar Assn.

Good judges are honest lawyers who stick to the letter of the law or the Constitution, whatever their political philosophy, Scalia said.


Scalia Criticizes Politicizing of Judges.... (registration required)

Alternative source, somewhat odious: Scalia: Judges Should Know Their Role

[Walt Starr]

1. Wow! Never thought Scalia would be so hard on himself

Either that, or these statements get the Irony Award for the entire millenium!

[gottaB]

6. oh yeah, irony

it saps the righteousness right out of ya. No need for indignation, it's only a joke.

Ha. Ha ha. Ha.





http://www.mwscomp.com/sounds/mp3/sitface.mp3

[The Zanti Regent]

10. Hmmm the pot calls the kettle black, eh?

NEVER has there been such an arrogant asshole on the Supreme Court. John Kerry should call for the impeachment of Scalia!

[LiberalFighter]

42. Call it black?? Do you think he would call anything what it really was?

He would probably say it was white because it had been purified by his god.

[Just Me]

15. That cartoon says it all.

What a butt!!!

It's hard for me to believe we even have someone like Scalia sitting on the highest court in the land.

[gottaB]

43. I thought the song was apropos--lyrics below

Lyrics to Sit on My Face:

Sit on my face, and tell me that you love me,
I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you, too.
I love to hear you moralize,
When I'm between your thighs,
You'll blow me away!

Sit on my face, and let my lips embrase you,
I'll sit on your face and let my love be true-ly.
Life can be fine
If we both sixty-nine.
When you sit on the faces
Of those're from places that play,
You'll get blown away!!

[rooboy]

2. Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack.... n/t

[MurrayDelph]

32. He is not a quack!

But it takes too long, and doesn't quite have the right rhythm,
to say "Shyster! Shyster! Shyster!"

[Solly Mack]

3. Heaven forbid a govt. for/by/of the people does what the people want

ScalieButt IS a politician...a very slimy one.

Damn those "activists" judges, eh, ScalieButt?....unless, of course, they agree with you...that is.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

41. He's said democracy interferes with the Divine Right of Kings!

Just read my sig. quote from this medieval asshole!

[dbt]

4. What the Constitution commands????? (Head...Exploding...)

So, Fat Tony, where does the Constitution command that the Supreme Court elect the president? Go ahead, point it out for me. I'll wait.

*crickets*

:nuke:
dbt

[Kolesar]

5. As I understand, Congress is supposed to sort out disputed electors

...and the SCOTUS stepped in front of the thing and decided it for themselves in December 2000. I think you knew this. I am just giving a civics lesson for anybody who wondered.

[Tuttle]

7. Is this another thread from The Onion?

I thought the Onion had been deemed not a LBN source.

Oh wait... nevermind.

Tut-tut

[bushwakker]

8. you beat me to it*

[Triana]

9. HE only does what bu$hit, Inc wants...

...NOT what 'The People' want. Remember that's how Duhbya got appointed.

This is soooo Rich. The MOST politically influenced "judge" in this country whining about judges being too political. What a fookin hypocrite! What the hell is he trying to do, make himself look 'oh-soooo-innocent' of the charge?

HAA! He's the one most guilty of it!

Ohhh, the Irony!

Jeeeze

[Catt03]

11. While he is being hypocritical

he should include the religiosity of judges also

[TXDemGal]

12. Judge, heal thyself

or some other equally mixed metaphor.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. This man has no clue.

Do you ever get that weird feeling when someone does something so out of the normal that you find yourself looking for exit doors?

I think Scalia isn't operating on a normal plane. He's lived such a favored status that he takes all the perks that comes with the cronyism as his reference to "normal."

[aquart]

14. It's the shamelessness.

Oh, and the hypocrisy.

[ixion]

16. they should have thought of that before they 'selected' the Chimp

They brought themselves into politics, when they defied the popular vote to install their puppet.

[TahitiNut]

17. He's still pissed that Dred Scott v. Sandford was overturned

... and Plessy v. Ferguson. Bush v. Gore has now relegated Scott v. Sandford as the second worst decision in Supreme Court history.

[KittyWampus]

18. Well, If Judicial Excellence Was The Standard, You And Clarence Would Be

out of a job.

[samsingh]

19. shame Scalia, shame

you stole a presidency

[dolstein]

20. Trent Lott criticizes race baiting

NT

[Mattforclark]

21. HAHAHAHAH!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Liberal Gramma]

22. "Activist judges" = Liberals

It's OK to be an activist if you're repressing rights, just not if you're expanding them.

[xchrom]

23. punch line -- drum roll -- rim shot

damn scalia -- that was funny!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. "Fat Tony what have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?"

[Lugnut]

25. The irony

Is obviously lost on Tony. :eyes:

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Scalia's irregular verb

"I'm guided by my morals; You're political; He's corrupt"

[gottaB]

30. took me a second--let's try that with modals

I may recuse, you ought to recuse, a judge shall recuse....

[yellowcanine]

27. Pot, Kettle, Black, etc., etc.

After his outrageous opinion in Bush v. Gore, Scalia has some nerve talking about judges being political. No politics involved in that decision, no siree. I guess that's why he slipped in the little caveat that the decision was not to be a precedent for the future - no we wouldn't want this decision to help out a Democrat in some future contested election would we? - can't have that, no.

[rocktivity]

28. I've got two words for you, Scalia

Quack quack.

:headbang:
rocknation

[BattyDem]

29. Even "The Onion" couldn't have come up with something this hysterical!

[BiggJawn]

31. This was NOT stolen from "The Onion"????

Fat Tony sure has the utmost of contemp for the American people, doesn't he?

I mean, to say ONE thing, yet have a history of doing the opposite, he must think we're too stupid to enjoy "King of the Hill"...

Is he exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's?

[Chicago Democrat]

33. Bush Criticises lack of Reading

[Chicago Democrat]

34. Cheney criticizes Pro-War stance

[Chicago Democrat]

35. Fox News criticises Right Wing TV News shows

[Chicago Democrat]

36. Rush Limbaugh Criticises Oxycontin Addicts

[Chicago Democrat]

37. Hitler criticises Anti-Semites!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. KKK criticizes Scalia

[gottaB]

40. Bush deplores nepotism

Says nincompoops don't belong in positions of power, no matter who their daddy is. FCC Chairman Michael Powell agreed, saying....

you were on such a roll

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. This is the line that gets me:

"As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to "do what the people want," instead of what the document actually commands..."

It's yet another example of the disdain that Scalyass and his repug brothers have for the common man.

Are we not a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people?"