Comments on: Justice Scalia On The Record

60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl Interviews The Supreme Court Justice About His Public And Private Life

[jumkey]

Wow, what an amazing liar.

The omissions and errors in fact just from the short quotes listed are noting sort of astounding, but not anything less than what I''ve come to expect from conservatives over the years.

Just one example: "It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question%u2026". No, actually, the title of the article says it itself "Bush v. Gore" - the plaintiff was BUSH, not Gore. BUSH brought the action before the Court, not Gore, and the Court agreed to hear it.

Blaming Gore for the decision Scalia himself reached is rank dishonesty and childish derision of the "nah nah nah" variety.

Scalia should be removed from the Court.

[bobnjersey]

[Furthermore, says the outspoken conservative justice, it was Al Gore who ultimately put the issue into the courts. "It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question%u2026. We didn%u2019t go looking for trouble. It was he who said, ''I want this to be decided by the courts,''" says Scalia. "What are we supposed to say -- ''Not important enough?''" he jokes. ]

spoken like a true partisan ... almost at the same time he says it wasn''t political.

does he think he''s fooling anyone?

[ricknuber]

marbru:

By your flawed, simple-minded logic, Saddam Hussein should have never been prosecuted, because his crimes occurred in the past. Whether or not Scalia makes politically motivated decisions in his capacity on the SCOTUS is a pretty contemporary issue, which anyone should be able to raise at any time, since it effects us all.

Why do you hate America?

[mbcsmith]

Wonder why CBS chose Uber-liberal Lesie Stahl to speak to a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

"On the abortion thing, for example, if indeed I were%u2026trying to impose my own views, I would not only be opposed to Roe versus Wade, I would be in favor of the opposite view, which the anti-abortion people would like to see adopted, which is to interpret the Constitution to mean that a state must prohibit abortion." "And you%u2019re against that?" asks Stahl. "Of course. There%u2019s nothing [in the Constitution to support that view]."

LIBS just won''t believe anyone who disagrees with them, often with disrespectful venom.

[truthspeake2]

I hope that no more of these idiots die until AFTER GW''s watch is over because this country can''t stand anymore of these "conservatives" for life on the Supreme Court!

[marbru-2009]

Oh come on w/your belly-aching - shall we debate whether it was fair for the pilgrims to have come to the America in the first place? - they did, the rest is history - no amount of complaining makes any difference and won''t change anything. Stop crying over spilt milk!

[ricknuber]

mattalankane:

Why do morons like yourself post IN ALL CAPS? I think you need to compliment your remedial history classes with some basic grammar skills.

[excoachken]

Next, he will be trying to sell us the Washington Monument. This liar can be "judged" by the company he keeps. Who else, but a facists, would go hunting with Cheyney while judging a case that involved Cheyney. I don''t know who he thinks will buy this B.S. except the dummies who were to stupid to understand his bias before this interview.

[r9119111]

Right.

[jon2012-2009]

The gentleman protests too much. That''s when we should start counting the silver more carefully.

[raywrtr]

Get over it? Tell that to the families of the four-thousand plus casualties in Iraq, that would have otherwise be with us today, had it not been for the politically motivated decision of the Supreme Court.

Scalia has always been an ultra right-ringed zealot, whose interpretation of the law only suits his own political agenda.

[mattalankane]

SCALIA MAKES LESLEY STAHL LOOK LIKE A BUCK.02 LIGHTWEIGHT!! YOUR AVERAGE TO ABOVE AVERAGE LIBERAL REPORTING HACK CAN''T MATCH WITT''S WITH SOMEONE OF THIS CALIBER...HE GOES BY 220 YEAR OLD CONSTITUTIONAL LAW NOT EMOTIONAL LIBERALISM....GIVE ME A BREAK...GO INTERVIEW SPEARS,LOHAN AND HILTON

[byeneocons]

That means a lot coming from the most right wing activist partisan Supreme Court judge in American history.

Dear Judge Scalia: Maybe we could get over it easier if your boy hadn''t led us into two wars and a recession.

[hrb266]

"Get Over It!"

Says it all.