Supreme Court Justices Exit Cave; Breyer Complains About Light
The Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Conner, Atonin Scalia, and Steven Breyer did a Q&A session with Tim Russert.
On the Court & Politics
"Something very fundamental has changed," [Scalia] he said. If judges start interpreting the Constitution to suit political views, he added, then the Supreme Court "becomes a very political institution and when that happens the people in a democracy will try to seize control of it."
On International Law:
“I don’t agree it’s much ado about nothing,” Scalia said in response to O’Connor. Regarding the death penalty case, he said the majority led by Kennedy “contradicted the view of the majority of the states.”
“I don’t see how international law is relevant. I don’t know what a South Africa court will tell you about American law,” he said.
Scalia is awesome, and moreso than that, he's absolutely correct. Impeaching Judges, like Tom "I've Lost It" DeLay has called for, sets a dangerous precedent. We should make sure that Justices on the Court follow a strict interpretation of the Constitution. And using international law as the basis for a descision is crap. Would that make canining Constitutional? The Gulag? The Nazi restrictions against Jews?
On the Court & Politics
"Something very fundamental has changed," [Scalia] he said. If judges start interpreting the Constitution to suit political views, he added, then the Supreme Court "becomes a very political institution and when that happens the people in a democracy will try to seize control of it."
On International Law:
“I don’t agree it’s much ado about nothing,” Scalia said in response to O’Connor. Regarding the death penalty case, he said the majority led by Kennedy “contradicted the view of the majority of the states.”
“I don’t see how international law is relevant. I don’t know what a South Africa court will tell you about American law,” he said.
Scalia is awesome, and moreso than that, he's absolutely correct. Impeaching Judges, like Tom "I've Lost It" DeLay has called for, sets a dangerous precedent. We should make sure that Justices on the Court follow a strict interpretation of the Constitution. And using international law as the basis for a descision is crap. Would that make canining Constitutional? The Gulag? The Nazi restrictions against Jews?
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