Letters to the Editor
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Editing error
"The Sierra Club had asked Cheney to step aside from hearing the case..."
Scalia heard the case.
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Scalia e pazzo
Yet another hint that Scalia is losing it...
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Understandable
You seem to have Scalia and Cheney mixed up in the article, which is not surprings since they are both evil balding white men.
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Cheney/ Scalia
quoting:
" Cheney's comments came in response to a question from a University of Connecticut law student who apparently asked the associate justice about his decision not to recuse himself from the 2004 case involving Cheney's energy task force. The Sierra Club had asked Cheney to step aside from hearing the case,
uh, Cheney? or Scalia??
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Trust?
We're supposed to "trust" Scalia to do the right thing?
Actually, we do trust Scalia to do the right thing, which is why it's left up to him and his fellow Justices to recuse themselves from cases in which they appear to have a conflict of interest rather than having some other authority make those decisions for them.
And that's all it takes to prompt a self-recusal: the appearance, not the fact, of a conflict of interest. Heck, if we could "trust" the Justices to do the right thing we wouldn't need a recusal option. I mean, if these guys are so trustworthy it shouldn't matter that they have a conflict of interest, real or apparent, in a case before the Court. Such trustworthy folks can be counted on to rule fairly even when their own interest is harmed, right?
It's not about trust, Antonin. It's about eliminating the need to trust. None of us can ever really trust anyone absolutely, and that's precisely why things like recusal mechanisms exist. Trust is risk, and I for one would like to remove as much of the element of risk as possible from processes that decide issues impacting my life directly. So no, I don't trust you, Justice Scalia. You're supposed to recuse yourself from cases in which you appear to have a conflict of interest.
Obviously you can't be trusted to do that.
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Quack! Quack!
"For Pete's sake if you can't trust your Supreme Court justice more than that, get a life."
This is some of the funniest shit I've read all day. You guys don't need to even add commentary. It's absurd enough on its own.
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The fat ugly bastard is losing it
it's got me feeling sorry for Danny DeVito, who's going to have to gain 50 pounds to play Tony in the bio-pic.
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Manhattanite Hits the Nail on the Head
I suspect that the reason the king didn't appoint Scalia chief justice is that his majesty is aware of a possible medical condition. Scalia just keeps getting sillier and sillier.
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Holy toledo
Scalia sure sounds like he's losing it. Anyone know about precedent for removing an unfit judge from the Supremes?
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got a life
It's under the thumb of bastards like him and "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore"
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As opposed to Justice Brennan
who, when asked at my law school in 1985 what he thought was the most important case he had decided said "Gideon v Wainwright," which established the right to counsel for indigent criminal defendants. How far we have fallen with this bunch.
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The Bush Supreme Court Scalia Disorder will spread to the rest of them
Scalia you are deteriorating, your mind is degenerating. You have caught Bush Cronyism Syndrome, which is a degenerative disease of the mind often seen in people of low intelligence and low native ability at birth leading to little or no character formation. Usually resulting in narrow mindedness, intolerance toward the sensitivities of others, narcissistic self centeredness, self indulgence, completely inadequate character development, foot in mouth disease and shallow thinking.
This longstanding degenerative disease is worsened by spending too much time near George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Berto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Richard Nixon Bill O'Reilly or Rupert Murdoch and his employees all of whom spread this syndrome from too much incestual thinking.
There is no cure for this condition and it is exascerbated by and further characterized by lack of a soul, lack of personality, lack of humility, lack of humor, lack of character and a complete inability to laugh at oneself, no self perception and a meglomaniacal and messianic complex. The Alito arrogance gene is a closely associated structural defect.
Bush style Republicans are the only ones known to acquire this disease. Attendance at Yale and Princeton and close involvement in the petroleum industry, sniffing gasoline, frequently tasting oil, too much alcoholic consumption especially while inhaling gunpowder fumes and killing small animals and birds and/or spending too much time in some southern states expecially in Texas are all contributory factors.
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But can he count?
How can one trust a judge who can't even count, as Bush vs. Gore has proven.