Sunday, June 28, 2015

Antonin Scalia Doesn't Even Have A Fundamental Grasp Of What Being A Supreme Court Justice Means

Scalia states in his dissent:
"The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me."  
"It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best."
"But the Court ends this debate, in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law," he also states: "Buried beneath the mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages of the opinion is a candid and startling assertion: No matter what it was the People ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment protects those rights that the Judiciary, in its 'reasoned judgment,' thinks the Fourteenth Amendment ought to protect."

Here Antonin, let Thomas Jefferson, the man who insisted on the judicial branch of our government, explain why 5 other judges voted the way they did:

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”


He also stated:


"Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801.

Moral of the story Antonin, if you have a problem with Constitutional law, then take it up with the guys who wrote it, or better yet, leave it up to people who understand it better than yourself.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

AMEN- THE DISSENTING OPINIONS WERE BASED ON FEAR- THAT IS WHY JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED.

bdsmjack said...

All of the dissenting voters will forever be looked upon as small minded bigots. Enjoy your legacy.

centurionF said...

well ultimately, Jesus was crucified because the people chose Barabbas, but I know that doesn't detract from the truth of your statement. It's just another of those awkward things in the Bible that get swept under the carpet in the search for sanitised, happy-clappy, mom-and-pop soundbites that fit into the agenda

Jesus has always been tediously misrepresented in western art, for suspect reasons I won't go into here. In reality he was a kind of coffee-coloured Ty Roderick. Possibly without the tattoos, especially the gun at the hip. He never said anything about gay sex (although I personally think he would have had deep reservations). Nor straight sex come to that. Or even marriage. Yet he's been the icon of the western civilising influence for 2,000 years. You have to like Him, don't you?