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To: patton; freepatriot32
"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

30 posted on 03/15/2006 11:20:35 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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To: LibertarianInExile
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

You flatter yourself. Next time, wear your teeth.

38 posted on 03/16/2006 12:29:55 AM PST by Chunga (Mock The Left)
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To: LibertarianInExile

Scalia says one thing in a speech and rules the opposite on the bench. As Justice Thomas pointed out the majority of the court was wrong on Reich and Gonzales.


68 posted on 03/16/2006 3:04:09 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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