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Swede

(33,258 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 01:40 PM Jun 2012

Justice Scalia Rages Against Obama On Immigration




In his aggressive defense of Arizona’s immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia pointedly went after President Obama’s recent immigration policy shift and accused him of deliberately refusing to enforce immigration statutes.

Justice Scalia wrote a 22-page barnstorming dissent against the court’s 5-3 decision Monday which found major provisions of S.B. 1070 violate the Constitution. The conservative jurist accepted the premise that the federal government has supremacy on immigration, but declared that the Arizona law is “in complete compliance” with federal statutes.

In his point-by-point defense of the Arizona legislation, the avowed law-and-order conservative surmised that the Obama administration “desperately wants to avoid upsetting foreign powers.” He accused federal officials of “willful blindness or deliberate inattention” to the presence of illegal immigrants in Arizona.

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Justice Scalia Rages Against Obama On Immigration (Original Post) Swede Jun 2012 OP
two words....partisan hack. shame on him spanone Jun 2012 #1
Two other words come to mind for me. GoCubsGo Jun 2012 #9
Scalia would rule in favor of the KKK if given the opportunity. Hoyt Jun 2012 #2
"Scalia has finally jumped the shark"... cynatnite Jun 2012 #3
Oh no, he's not a judicial activist... Raven Jun 2012 #4
He's a militant aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2012 #6
Despicable. sinkingfeeling Jun 2012 #5
Jail for seeking work or not having proper papers is 'in complete compliance' ProgressiveEconomist Jun 2012 #7
Don Gotti Scalia is unfit for the office he holds. Dawson Leery Jun 2012 #8
Scalia belong behind bars, not behind a bench meow2u3 Jun 2012 #10

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
9. Two other words come to mind for me.
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:06 PM
Jun 2012

Raving lunatic. This rant goes beyond being a shameless partisan hack. Twenty-two pages of mouth-foaming rage indicates that he's batshit crazy. There has to be a way to get that kook off the court and into an appropriate facility, where the public will be safe from him and any of his subsequent actions.

cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
3. "Scalia has finally jumped the shark"...
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 01:48 PM
Jun 2012

Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at UCLA, pushed back on Scalia’s argument.

“Scalia has finally jumped the shark,” Winkler told TPM. “He claims to respect the founding fathers, but his dissent channels the opponents of the Constitution. Back then, opponents argued that the Constitution denied states their sovereignty by giving too much power to the federal government, as with immigration. Now Scalia echoes their complaints that states are being denied their sovereignty. States are not sovereign when it comes to powers vested in Congress, such as the authority over immigration and naturalization.”


Scalia's such a douche.

ProgressiveEconomist

(5,818 posts)
7. Jail for seeking work or not having proper papers is 'in complete compliance'
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 02:59 PM
Jun 2012

with federal law? Why not just incarcerate "them" for drinking water or buying food?

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
8. Don Gotti Scalia is unfit for the office he holds.
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:02 PM
Jun 2012

Tony's primary purpose is to use the bench of the highest court to vilify political opponents.

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
10. Scalia belong behind bars, not behind a bench
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:20 PM
Jun 2012

And certainly not behind the bench of the highest court in the land. He's an amoral, sociopathic monster who makes up the law as he goes along.

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