WASHINGTON -- Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday defended some of his Supreme Court opinions, arguing that nothing in the Constitution supports abortion rights and the use of race in school admissions.
Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, sparred in a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen. He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues.
Arguing that liberal judges in the past improperly established new political rights such as abortion, Scalia warned, "Someday, you're going to get a very conservative Supreme Court and regret that approach."
"On controversial issues on stuff like homosexual rights, abortion, we debate with each other and persuade each other and vote on it either through representatives or a constitutional amendment," the Reagan appointee said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500480_pf.htmlShe's gonna "regret that approach"? It's not everyday that a Supreme Court Justice issues threats. I did find a pony, though. With Tony's vote, it looks as though Bush will have trouble with this court on his kiss-habaes-corpus-goodbye law:
"But during Sunday's debate, Scalia noted there were cases in which he and the ACLU agreed. They included rulings upholding flag burning and a 2004 opinion arguing that
a U.S. citizen seized in Afghanistan in wartime could challenge his detention as an enemy combatant in U.S. courts."