Scales and Scalia
June 23, 2008
Just watching Anthony Scalia on Charlie Rose - sorry, no link. I’m wondering, since when was it ok for a Supreme Court justice to go on tv and critisize the opinions of former Courts and even of the majority members of the Supremes? And Scalia is so pissed off about “activist judges”! At least those judges stayed in their courtrooms. Scalia must be the most “activist”, openly and avowedly, unabashedly right wing judge EVER?
He is so pissed off about Boumediene that he just can’t shut up. More fear mongering to spare - people are gonna get killed because the Supremes attended to the principle of habeas corpus. Charming behaviour in a Supreme Court Justice, really.
It must really be fun to work at the offices of the Supremes these days. Can’t even maintain an appearance of collegiality. If this was a less conservative judge, wouldn’t people be going absolutely nuts? Why aren’t people going nuts now? Or is the Canadian Supreme Court bench just much more polite and concerned about the appearance, at least, of fairness?
