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To: neverdem
Or will his nominee be a fair-weather federalist, as Justice Scalia has turned out to be when the chips were down?

This has been my knock on Scalia all along. He talks the talk on federalism, but has no problem doing the Wickard when it suits his views. Plus, he seldom if ever met a search and seizure he didn't agree with, so he is weak in that regard as well.

Thomas's dissent was a thing of beauty. Maybe we can get Janice Rogers Brown on SCOTUS along with him and then really drive the libs bonkers.

21 posted on 06/10/2005 7:11:05 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: dirtboy

"This has been my knock on Scalia all along. He talks the talk on federalism, but has no problem doing the Wickard when it suits his views. Plus, he seldom if ever met a search and seizure he didn't agree with, so he is weak in that regard as well."

Yep, his personal opinions take precedence over the law.

Rehnquist does the same thing as Scalia when it comes to search and seizure, though.


53 posted on 06/10/2005 6:33:15 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (<-- sick of faux-conservatives who want federal government intervention for 'conservative things.')
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