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You have to appreciate his dedication to rigor.


He's consistent, which is about the only nice thing I'd want to say about him.


Your ignorance is staggering.

He voted that the police should not be permitted to take your DNA just because you were arrested.

He voted that government should not be permitted to take your property and give it to another private entity because it will generate higher taxes.

He voted that the police should not be permitted to enter your property with drug sniffing dogs without a warrant.

He voted that authorities scanning a home with an infrared camera without a warrant constituted an unreasonable search.


"Seldom has an opinion of this Court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members", said Scalia when the court found it unconstitutional to execute the profoundly mentally disabled.

"If it were impossible for individual human beings (or groups of human beings) to act autonomously in effective pursuit of a common goal, the game of soccer would not exist", he said, when the court found it unconstitutional for the VMI to refuse admission to women.

"This ruling will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed [...] The nation will live to regret what the court has done today" he said when the court held that Guantanamo detainees have the right to appeal their captivity to federal courts.

"Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the Constitution?" he said, under obvious circumstances.

"Today's opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda" he said, in attempting to retain a law that criminalized same-sex relationships in Texas.


It's interesting that you just assume the OP would take your side on those issues. If literally everyone agreed, they would not be an issue. :)

Completely orthogonally, sometimes people judge someone based on the intention behind their actions.


If you conclude that those four votes mean that nobody can think that he's vile, you're the ignorant one.


"Vile" is a pretty strong term, especially to use in a political context.


I thought about saying something very rude to you about me being entitled to my opinion, but I won't.




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