21,000 Reasons Scalia Was Right [Bloomberg Link Only]

Bloomberg [Link Only] ^ | April 21, 2017 | Stephen L. Carter

[C19fan]

Link

[C19fan]

Perhaps conservatives did not support rulings that seemed to favor criminals but the fundamental right to cross-examine witnesses is as explicit as any rights in the Constitution.

[Honorary Serb]

Here’s a link that works:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-21/dookhan-case-gives-21-000-reasons-scalia-was-right

[HiTech RedNeck]

If there isn’t integrity in the system, the government becomes the criminals. Why go easy on it?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ping for something that may prove topical at Waco

[xzins]

That’s the value of having a textualist or originalist on the Scotus.

It says what it says, and that should be the bottom line.

No more, no less.

[C19fan]

I think Scalia was inspried by the Star Trek TOS episode "Court Martial"

I'd be delighted to, sir, now that I've got something human to talk about. Rights, sir, human rights. The Bible, the Code of Hammurabi and of Justinian, Magna Carta, the Constitution of the United States, Fundamental Declarations of the Martian colonies, the Statutes of Alpha Three. Gentlemen, these documents all speak of rights. Rights of the accused to a trial by his peers, to be represented by counsel, the rights of cross-examination, but most importantly, the right to be confronted by the witnesses against him, a right to which my client has been denied.

[joma89]

Justice Scalia is a national treasure. I was lucky enough to get a chance to listen to him speak at a small gathering while I was in a school and he was amazing to listen to.

JoMa

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Fixed