Posted by Orin Kerr:
Impeach Nino:
As [1]every right-thinking person knows, the judiciary recently has
run amok. It's high time we did something about it. I think the
solution is clear: we need to impeach Justice Antonin Scalia.
If you think about it, Justice Scalia is directly or indirectly
responsible for many of the problems with the modern judiciary. Not
only did Scalia personally fail to intervene in the Schiavo case,
ignoring the will of Congress, but he has repeatedly [2]urged judges
to simply ignore Congressional intent. He refuses to cite legislative
history, woodenly following the "text" rather than deferring to clear
statements of what Congressional leaders intended to do. This kind of
judicial hubris is simply unacceptable.
Scalia is even worse in the area of constitutional interpretation.
His activist opinions have invented [3]new constitutional rights for
marijuana growers, given [4]thousands of convicted criminals a "get
out of jail free" card, and tried to [5]limit the President's ability
to fight the war on terror In addition, Scalia has [6]relied heavily
on foreign legal sources to interpret allegedly ambiguous provisions
of the Bill of Rights (see part II.A). Indeed, Scalia's contempt for
our system of Government is so great that [7]he admits he wants to see
the Constitution "dead."
The American people deserve better than Scalia's satanic Marxist
activism. It's time to impeach Nino.
References
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38308-2005Apr8.html
2. http://salvatori.claremontmckenna.edu/publications/RARScalia.asp
3. http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-8508.ZO.html
4. http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-1632.ZO.html
5. http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-6696.ZD.html
6. http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-9410.ZO.html
7. http://www.wm.edu/news/?id=3486
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