If Rush, Glenn, and Sean can make up stuff, why can’t Antonin? Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!
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And of course, Justice Thomas agrees with the dissent without reading it…
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Of course, it’s not as if, in the past, Scalia hadn’t tailored the “facts” to conform to the decision he wants to impose, rather than the other way around.
The idea of Fat Nino being logically consistent went out the window a long time ago. And y’all think it’s signs of dementia? Right. Listen, while you’re at it: I got this great bridge I’m trying to sell - call it a “Going Out of Bidness” sale - that runs between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Bargain-basement pricing, and you get all the toll revenues from it. Any takers?
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Time for this arrogant blowhard to step down and fade into obscurity.
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When his right-wing ideology consistently trumps precedent, law, and fact, you know that Mr. Scalia has given up his vow to uphold the Constitution. Time for impeachment.
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This is just par for the course for this high class prostitute.
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The weird thing is, it’s not even logical that the EPA would lobby to limit its own regulating authority. Scalia must have had a brain freeze. Time to go, maybe?
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And Justice Uncle Thomas concurred. The man is an empty suit.
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“…or he simply forgot…”
Or Scalia and Thomas are simple ideologues, careless – as in, they could care less – about law. Their opinions are based on what they consider conservative correctness, intending to provide fodder for the conservative movement’s talk shows and lecture circuit. They’re propagandists, not justices.
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Convenient. He’s the only one who knows the original intent of the guy who wrote the American Trucking decision.
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Scalia wrote in his dissent, which was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.
clarence thomas is an embarrassment; and if the man had an ounce of integrity, he’d resign.
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Actually, it’s not so much as embarrassing for him as further fodder for the emerging consensus that he’s showing signs of dementia.
It’s embarrassing for his clerks, however. And super-duper embarrassing for Thomas for joining him.
What’s really bizarre, however, is how a dissent was written in such secrecy that the other justices and their clerks didn’t know about it in advance and tell him about the error and give him a chance to fix it.
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Lets be honest, Scalia doesn’t care.
We all know he is going to ignore his opinion in Employment Division v. Smith when he expresses his sentiment in the Hobby Lobby case.
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Rehnquist found Placidyl very helpful…
Start with the idealogical conclusion you want and then twist and warp history, even your own statements to fit that conclusion.
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I honestly don’t think he gives a hoot about precedent, even HIS OWN. He’s a train barreling down a very specific ideological track and nothing is going to stop him from getting from Point A to Point B. Or Point Tea maybe.
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Does this mean Scalia’s senility is finally out in the open?
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I kinda doubt that it was a mistake. A deliberately misleading lie is probably more like it.
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Impeach Scalia and Thomas.
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Not surprising that Scalia made such an error. After all, he gathers his opinions from the political winds, rather than legal precedent.
But I am shocked, absolutely shocked, that Justice Thomas would sign up for Scalia’s opinion without catching the error. Absolutely shocking. It’s just as if Thomas draws his salary while doing no real legal work at all. Could that be? Just shocking.
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