[patton]

Um, he invented the "drug exception to the fourth amendment."

Doesn't sound very conservative to me.

[byteback]

Um, he invented the "drug exception to the fourth amendment." Doesn't sound very conservative to me.

I take it that your definition of conservative is in idiology not constitutionality. Scalia's interpretation is to rule by what is written not what he thinks should be written.

[LibertarianInExile]

"Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia railed against the era of the "judge-moralist," saying judges are no better qualified than "Joe Sixpack" to decide moral questions such as abortion and gay marriage."

Well, this certainly explains his decisions on marijuana legalization and euthanasia in Gonzales v. Reich and Gonzales v. Oregon. He simply wasn't moralizing at all in EITHER of those cases, now, was he? It must have all simply been about what the law said, not what exceptions he preferred be sliced out of his otherwise Consitutionalist philosophy.

/biting sarcasm