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Scalia to Conservatives: Butt Out!Posted on May 19, 2006Justice Antonin Scalia told fellow conservatives on Capitol Hill to butt out of the Supreme Court’s business in regards to using foreign law in its constitutional rulings. “It’s none of your business,” he said during a speech.
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By candide, May 21, 2006 at 7:38 am Link to this comment
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WEll, I had a few colleagues on campus who told me our laws and constitution came from the Iriquois.
Do you think perhaps they were being politically correct?
Report thisBy robert puglia, May 20, 2006 at 7:51 am Link to this comment
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scalia says of himself; “part of my charm is that i tell people what they don’t want to hear”. the main of his charm is that one cannot discern whether or nor he is already bending over.
Report thisBy cognitorex, May 20, 2006 at 4:56 am Link to this comment
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FOREIGN LAW SUPREME COURT POCAHONTAS
Justice Scalia is to be commended for telling conservative legislators to cease and desist their legislative endeavors to exclude foreign law consideration from Supreme Court deliberations.
Contrary to the best thinking of these xenophobe pandering Congressmen our cherished 230 years young founding documents were not found under Pocahontas’s skirt.
The Declaration of Independence is essentially a French document. I repeat. Our Declaration of Independence is essentially a French document.
Kudos to Jean-Jaques Rousseau and Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.
Societies change and laws change with them. Jumping up and down with hands clasped about one’s ears to shut out philosophical deliberations contrary to one’s pre-set opinion is at best infantile.
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