Posted on 02/28/2013 5:49:11 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down.
As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the courts newest members, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
The acerbic Scalia, the courts longest-serving justice, got his latest comeuppance Wednesday morning...Scalia, assuming powers of clairvoyance, argued that the lawmakers were secretly afraid to vote against this perpetuation of racial entitlement.
...The two new justices are sending a message to the courts conservative majority: You may have the votes, but youre going to have a fight.
Wednesdays voting rights case was typical. Surprisingly, the five conservative justices seemed willing to strike down a landmark civil rights law (the provision that gives extra scrutiny to states with past discrimination) that was renewed with near-unanimous votes in Congress. Conservative jurists usually claim deference to the elected branches, but in this case they look an awful lot like activist judges legislating from the bench.
Sotomayor allowed the lawyer for the Alabama county seeking to overturn the law to get just four sentences into his argument before interrupting him. Assuming I accept your premise and theres some question about that that some portions of the South have changed, your county pretty much hasnt, she charged. Why would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused the passage of this law to start with?
Moments later, Kagan pointed out that Alabama has no black statewide elected officials and has one of the worst records of voting rights violations.
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Thanks. I have only read the editorials and financial info.
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