Posted on 06/26/2015 10:33:49 AM PDT by xzins
From Scalia's dissent on court conducting a putsch to overthrow the country:
"22 If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:
“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,”
I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
This is getting stranger than fiction.
It sure does seem to be a reference else why make it?
It explains Roberts as well, doesn’t it?
If the process is proven to be corrupted, do the ramifications then get rejected?
What was the price for the 5th vote and who paid it?
30 pieces of silver is the going rate for betrayal.
Ummm no. That is not a reach. It’s just silly. Scalia was certainly not suggesting any such thing. This was a dreadful decision. No need to be reaching into tin foil hat territory to find stuff to criticize. That kind of stuff makes us look like fringe nut jobs. Let’s stick to the legal merits of the case.
Bkmrk.
No. He’s not hinting at that. As I have said before, Kennedy has been in the bag since before the case was filed. He wrote Lawrence v. Texas. IF you read that, you know how he was going to vote in this case.
He’s not been paid off. He’s just evil inside.
Ridiculous. You completely misread his sentence.. something he doesn’t take kindly to..
Do you remember that judge in Pensylvania that got life for putting innocent juveniles in private jail in exchange for kickbacks from the company that operated that jail?
Do you think that this case is an exception? I wonder how much those black robbed gangsters got for Roe-Wade and few other decisions...
Roberts apparently holds seances.
Well, maybe but probably not. Scalia is not a hinter. He would have outright said that if that is what he meant.
“The private powers of the economy want free paths for their acquisition of great resources. No legislation must stand in their way. They want to make the laws themselves, in their interests, and to that end they make use of the tool they have made for themselves, democracy, the subsidized party...Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.” Oswald Spengler
Just my take, but I think Justice Scalia is referring to a personal price that he, Justice Scalia, would pay if he were ever the fifth vote on a decision so trite, maudlin and poorly reasoned.
“even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote”
The way I read it, he is saying quite clearly that Kennedy joined this decision to get a “fifth vote” on another decision.
He’s not saying that at all. What he’s saying is that, if he were to join the majority as the fifth (and presumably final) vote, and the majority opinion started with that quote, he would hide his head in a bag. The “price” he would have to pay to join as the fifth vote would be to sign his name to such an opinion.
D.C. is bought and paid for. They’re prepaid and owned.
Instead of celebrating the 4th of July this year, we should be mourning it.
“If the process is proven to be corrupted, do the ramifications then get rejected?”
This is the highest court in the US...where does one go to get to the bottom of this? Justice ? Yeah right...
This is getting scarey weird.
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