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longship

(40,416 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:27 AM Jun 2015

From Scalia's dissent, a footnote.

According to SCOTUSBlog:

Scalia's dissent has an awesome footnote on page 7 (note 22): he says, "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." He is not happy with Justice Kennedy.


What a fucking jerk!
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From Scalia's dissent, a footnote. (Original Post) longship Jun 2015 OP
hopefully a plastic bag with a drawstring corkhead Jun 2015 #1
Screw him. He's going to be a villain in an Oscar-winning picture someday. fishwax Jun 2015 #2
He is happy to join any decision that grants liberty and rights to corporations Democat Jun 2015 #3

Democat

(11,617 posts)
3. He is happy to join any decision that grants liberty and rights to corporations
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 12:56 PM
Jun 2015

Just not certain people.

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