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brooklynite

(94,608 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:23 AM Jun 2015

By gum -- Justice Scalia does it again...

"If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie."

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spanone

(135,846 posts)
2. thanks to a majority of the court, this asshole has been rendered completely ineffective.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:27 AM
Jun 2015

shove your fortune cooking up your ass, tony

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
7. The guy is dangerous. Just because one is on SCOTUS, does not mean one is fit to
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:29 AM
Jun 2015

serve and capable of rationale decisions.

Spazito

(50,375 posts)
6. He is so full of shit...
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:27 AM
Jun 2015

an enema seems to be in order.

He is also filled with hate, I don't think there is a remedy for that.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
9. As one of my friends used to say, some people are so filled with hatred you can
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:31 AM
Jun 2015

literally smell them they are so rancid from hatred.

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