Making a joke of the Supreme Court: Justice Antonin Scalia is a Publicity-Seeking Intellectual Midget

By Dave Lindorff

Sometimes you really don't need to write much to do an article on something. Writing about the inanity of Justice Antonin Scalia, the ethics-challenged, lard-bottomed, right-wing anchor of the Supreme Court, is one of those times.

Scalia just weighed in on the CIA torture issue in an interview for a Swiss broadcast network, saying that he didn't think there was anything in the US Constitution that would prohibit torture under all circumstances, and positing a situation -- a suspect with knowledge about a hidden nuke to be detonated in Los Angeles -- that he suggested would make torture an acceptable tactic.

First of all, if Scalia can say "I don't know what article of the Constitution" would "contravene" harsh treatment of suspected terrorists, he is either terminally ignorant, or has figured out some talmudic-like gymnastic reasoning to allow him to argue that the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual" punishment doesn't apply to torture. Perhaps he thinks that punishment can only refer to the what is meted out to a person after conviction...

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