Justice Scalia On Life Part 1
September 15, 2008 6:40 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court?s Antonin Scalia discusses his public and private life in a remarkably candid interview with Lesley Stahl.
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- The Supreme Court is the only court mandated by the US Constitution and it is (or more properly could be) a separate branch of government in that it appears in a separate article of the Constitution. If you mean that the term "branch" does not appear in article III, it doesn't appear in II either, and in article I it only appears in reference to the House of Representatives. Or maybe you mean some other Constitution? I'm not really sure what you mean here. While I disagree with Scalia, I'm not sure he counts as an autocrat any more than any other Justice.
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- I think what people miss is that Justice Scalia still represents the interests of America, in that the whole of the American nation does not entirely consist of radical leftists. He is not an autocrat, he''s an element of a pluralist Supreme Court which guarantees yet another counterbalancing opinion to insure that if we are about to make a decision that alters the very aim of the Constitution, there had better be a good reason. If you don''t agree with Scalia, you can look to the other 8 justices for respite, that''s what they''re there for. Local legislation represents the popular demand concerning whatever problems you may have. However, when you challenge the very fabric upon which all American government has been built, you can''t expect everybody to nod in unison. Like it or not, Scalia remains a check and balance of the Supreme Court, even if he may not endorse your interpretation of "common sense."
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- If he''s such an "originalist," someone needs to inform him that the Constitution orinally had no place for the Supreme Court as a third branch of government - precisely to avoid having such a pompous autocrat as himself from wielding such undeserved power.
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