Well, since the 14th amendment guarantees equal protection of the laws to “all persons,” I guess non-persons might not be entitled to legal protections. Or is that his point?
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So, we’re going to put legal protections for minorities up to a vote??? The U.S. Constitution was carefully drafted to afford protections for minorities from the majority. Stunningly ignorant opinion from Scalia. Stunning!!
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I see. So then we are supposed to amend the Constitution for all such cases, because the Democratic process would tend to protect, then over rule that protection as we continue to fight over these issues.
Why the Constitution would become so unruly that they would scream that the government can’t govern.
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Actually, its a horrible example. Because pedophiles DO have rights and protections. A pedophile has all the same rights as everyone else in this country. Convicted ones have some restrictions placed on their rights, but they can still get married, for example.
What he is trying to do is engage in a bit of smearing…attempting to associate homosexuality with pedophilia. But as a legal argument, its silly and amateurish.
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I can’t figure out why Caitlyn Jenner is a Republican, but I digress.
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Scalia is such an unbelievable hypocrite that I doubt even he believes his own crap. The Constitution demands that ALL receive equal treatment under the law. No more, no less. Aside from being patently offensive, Scalia’s comparison of the legal treatment of criminals (pederasts and child abusers) to the legal treatment of consenting, law-abiding adults (married LGBT people) is the ultimate strawman argument.
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Gay Syrian refugees?
And yet Ruth Bader Ginsburg seems to admire and like him. From a recent interview. Go figure.
RBG: Last night, my daughter and I got a prize from a women’s intellectual property group, and Nino [Scalia] was in the video, saying his nice things about me. He’s a very funny man. We both love opera. And we care about writing. His style is spicy, but we care about how we say it.
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A dumpy catholic should be more circumspect - should show more discretion when throwing around the word ‘pedophile’, one would think! What an ill-informed or devious way to change the subject…DEVIOUS…for sure. Ugly in truth!
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Proof once again where Scalia’s mind wants to go, which speaks volumes about what he thinks about.
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He argued that it instead should be up to the democratic process to determine which minority groups deserve legal protections.
Like they did in Nazi Germany?
(This marks the first time I have ever made a Nazi comparison on the internet. Sigh.)
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So if a law was passed limiting the right of person of Italian heritage, he would be happy with it? Because the Constitution says nothing about Italians?
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Like a lot of right wingers (Trump, Coulter, et al.), Scalia is basically an Internet troll who seems to say shit because he knows it’ll piss people off.
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I couldn’t agree more. This is one human the world would be better off without.
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I hope every restaurant server working in DC has an opportunity to spit in Scalia’s food.
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Ummm…kinda.
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"In"justice Scalia ---
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If you can’t tell the difference between Hillary Clinton and … say, Ted Cruz, you have a bigger problem that the Supreme Court composition. Same for pretty much the whole passle of clowns in the Republican Preznitential Clown Car.
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How in the Hell did someone like Scalia ever become a Supreme Court Justice. The man is definitely living in the 1800’s.
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The SupCt is a funny place. Unlike society at large, it seems that the justices and the clerks are able to separate the personal from the political. When I was in law school, one of my professors, who was an out and proud gay woman, had clerked at the SupCt and she absolutely loved Clarence Thomas. Apparently all the clerks love him. I could never quite figure it out because he seems like a dullard and an insufferable dick.
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