SUPREME COURT JUSTICE HAS OMINOUS WARNING
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia unleashed some of his harshest criticism yet for the court this week in a speech at Santa Clara University.
Scalia has long been the most outspoken conservative on the court, but it is clear from his tone that he has never been more concerned about the direction of the Judicial Branch. “The whole time I have been on my court, it has been a liberal court,” Scalia said.
Scalia thinks the fundamental problem lies in the idea of the Constitution as a living document, subject to the whims of whichever justices happen to be minding the court. He disagreed with this position, telling the law students gathered there that the Constitution is a “legal document.” “It means what it says and it doesn’t mean what it doesn’t say,” Scalia said in what is surely a contender for Quote of the Year.
He questioned whether the American people would have ever supported the Constitution if they had been told that “the meaning of this document shall be whatever a majority of the Supreme Court says it is.”
In his long rant against the current state of the court, he predicted that it would bring about no less than the “destruction of our democratic system.” “I cannot imagine the system can continue with more and more of the basic rules made by the Supreme Court,” he said. Just think about what we’re hearing.
This is one of the most powerful men in the country telling us that the institution to which he belongs is broken, and we would be foolish not to listen. You can go back to the original Roe vs Wade decision, but you don’t even have to.
Just look at the decisions that came down this year on gay marriage and Obamacare. In these instances, the court completely abdicated its responsibility to uphold the Constitution. Instead, it became an absolute free-for-all where justices simply voted according to their political ideology.
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