Scalia the Outspoken v. Scalia the Reserved

In emphatic phrases punctuated by operatic gesticulation, he then launched into an attack on a series of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the last 40 years. The court was wrong, he said, to say the Constitution requires that lawyers be provided to poor people accused of crimes. It was wrong, too, to find that the First Amendment imposes limits on libel lawsuits.

"We have now determined," he continued, "that liberties exist under the federal Constitution — the right to abortion, the right to homosexual sodomy — which were so little rooted in the traditions of the American people that they were criminal for 200 years."

He said his colleagues may soon discover a right to assisted suicide between the lines of the text of the Constitution.

"We're not ready to announce that right," he said, more than a little sarcastically. "Check back with us."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/politics/02SCAL.html?pagewanted=1