Discussion: Yet Again, A Scalia Dissent Is Used Against Him

system1 · June 25, 2015, 5:18pm

Discussion for article #237867

mrdependable · June 25, 2015, 5:54pm

Smartest guy in the room.

dnl · June 25, 2015, 5:56pm

Hoist on his own petard…

“I fahrt in your general direction, Tony!”

tecmage · June 25, 2015, 6:04pm

Maybe Scalia didn’t think Roberts would go at him like that?

humpback · June 25, 2015, 6:08pm

That is the result of backward legal reasoning, starting from the result you want and developing an argument to support it. Such jurisprudence is not consistent. Scalia’s past “reasoning” is easily used against his current passion of the moment.

rudesan · June 25, 2015, 6:11pm

Oyay NOW I know what “pegging” means.

dave_adams · June 25, 2015, 6:11pm

Justice Scalia is resembling Fred Flintstone more and more with every passing year, except without the gruff charm.

doremus_jessup · June 25, 2015, 6:18pm

rotflmao! Fellow Justice’s trolling Scalia with his own words is sweet, sweet irony. I didn’t think this decision could get any better.

indyundecided · June 25, 2015, 6:19pm

As much fun as it is seeing Scalia lose his mind and all the clueless rightwingers and Foxbots spout about the decision being ‘unconstitutional’ with no logic whatsoever, I enjoy this for another reason: dollars. The Bush crusade in Iraq set the country back 3 trillion dollars. The Bush Depression cost millions of jobs and nearly destroyed the country. The fifty four votes to repeal Obamacare cost us all another major chunk. Now the Supreme Court has now heard cases on the ACA twice. How many of our taxpayer dollars are being wasted on Republican’s attempts to deny citizens access to health care? These people keep showing themselves to be anything but fiscally responsible.

genomeman · June 25, 2015, 6:22pm

“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”

blue_grit · June 25, 2015, 6:23pm

Scalia was not, is not and never will be qualified to be on the SCOTUS.

He and Clarence “Porn Connoisseur” Thomas are responsible for turning the SCOTUS into the SCrOTUS.

Well, I guess it really is the presidents (Reagan and G.H.W. Bush) who appointed them and the senators who confirmed them.

uggswell · June 25, 2015, 6:23pm

This happen when toss rocks without think. Har har har.

storm · June 25, 2015, 6:23pm

Scale the war to fit in one hand, and use the same scale to put everything else in the other. It will be hard to tell the second hand isn’t empty.

dnl · June 25, 2015, 6:26pm

…and Clarence T as Barney…

wiscojoe · June 25, 2015, 6:26pm

When Scalia claimed that “words no longer have meaning,” he must have been referring to his own writing.

gr · June 25, 2015, 6:29pm

Indeed, the guy said he had no agenda during his confirmation hearings. That was the tip off that he did have an agenda.

slbinva · June 25, 2015, 6:32pm

Ugg! Good to see you back around here, man! I’ve missed you!

edantes · June 25, 2015, 6:33pm

The problem for Scalia is that the only thing he really believes in is that he is RIGHT. That is the be all and end all of his judicial philosophy. To make matters worst he wants to pretend (or try to convince himself) that he adheres to some sort of lofty ideals. He wants to brag about that endlessly.
Now because of the first part and that he really has no ideals other than that (hence the need to convince himself that he does) he contradicts himself on a fairly regular basis. Finding something that contradicts what he has said before is not that hard. Since he sets himself up as some towering pillar of judicial wisdom what he has written gets quoted by everyone from the Chief justice to municipal and county judges.
Just can not make this sh!t up.

fargo116 · June 25, 2015, 6:37pm

You just know that when Fat Tony heard that argle-bargle read out loud he went, “WTF? JOHNNNNNN!!?”

jimtoday · June 25, 2015, 6:37pm

Justice Roberts is a corporatist, but not a flat out true believer nutbag like Scalia.