[BillyBoy]

>> Bullcrap. A Constitutionalist judge will sometimes return a ruling we don't like politically <<

Bullcrap. Justice Scalia was on the court for three decades and issued thousands of rulings in that time. Name one time Justice Scalia was the LONE GOP judge to vote with the Ginsburg-Breyer-Kagan-Sotomayor wing of the court because of "constitutional" reasons due to his "textualist" philosophy of the way a law was written.

And the ruiling you guys keep citing had an overwhelmingly 8-1 majority agreeing it was vaguely written, rather than all the Democrats judges + 1 maverick GOP judge.

[dirtboy]

I was never that much of a fan of Scalia. He would find meanings in the Constitution to support his authoritarian desires, the prime example being Raich, where he found a reason for his viewpoints in the Necessary and Proper Clause. I vastly prefer a justice who exercises restraint in this day and age of gross federal overreach. Apparently you have no problem with such.

[dirtboy]

A question - do you agree with Scalia or Thomas on Raich? Do you agree with civil asset forfeiture as currently exercised by many jurisdictions?