To: Sabertooth
Those were actually the words of Clarence Thomas in his concurrence with Scalia's dissent. Thomas was quoting Justice Black from the Griswold v. Connecticut case.
124 posted on
06/28/2003 8:46:04 AM PDT by
tdadams
To: tdadams
And Justice Black was also in dissent. Way back then, he saw the distinction between a law being bad and its being unconstitutional.
To: tdadams
Thomas was quoting Justice Black from the Griswold v. Connecticut case.
Did Black hold that laws could be ruled unconstitutional because they're "uncommonly silly?" Thomas clearly didn't.
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