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The perfect follow up

...to yesterday's post. From the WSJ Law Blog:

The Scalia Roadshow continued yesterday when Nino took questions from a group of really smart students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

To queries about his youth, Scalia said that, while a student at Xavier High School in Manhattan, he played the French horn, was on the junior varsity rifle team, and played Macbeth in a high school play, terming his mastery of Shakespeare?s tragedy ?significant.?

Well this brings a couple quotes to mind:

• "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" See, e.g., FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, 551 U.S. ___ (2007) (SCALIA, J., dissenting)("This faux judicial restraint is judicial obfuscation").


• "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me." See Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000).

And Scalia also told the high school kids: ?I am not a moralist-in-chief ? (nor an) ayatollah who is supposed to tell America what its morality should be.? REALLY? Did he even read the opinion he wrote in Lawrence?

Today?s opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct.

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Full post as published by Supreme Dicta on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).