This Week's Backside Of The Bell Curve Winner!
US Supreme Court Injustice
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
"If you become a federal judge in the Southern District of New York (Manhattan), you can't raise a family on what the salary is," Scalia said during a speech to the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Federal judges earned salaries of $165,200 in 2006. Scalia said lawyers can easily earn significantly more by staying in the private sector.
The result, Scalia said, is that the judiciary will increasingly appeal only to those who have made a career out of public-sector work.
"More and more, we cannot attract the really bright lawyers. It's too much of a sacrifice," he said.
Scalia spent most of his speech advocating a theory of constitutional interpretation called originalism, which seeks to discern the meaning of the Constitution as envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
He mocked those who interpret the Constitution as a living document that has evolved over time.
He referred to the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on the death penalty, which has cited "evolving standards of decency" to ban the death penalty for juveniles and the mentally retarded as cruel and unusual punishment.
"I have no idea what the standards of decency are out there. I'm afraid to ask," Scalia said.
Scalia's constitution would protect only free, white, male landowners. Is that your idea of democracy?
Best bar bet in the world: Delilah didn't do it.
Judges 16:19-- And she made him (Samson) sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head.
posted by delilahboyd at 5:59 AM
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Scalia's son, Eugene, got a Bush midnight recess appointment as the Solicitor of the Labor Department. They had to sneak him in the back door because even the former Republican Senate would not have confirmed him. Apparantly little Scalia had no trouble supporting his family on the mealy government wages he was paid. I might also point out that under Eugene's reign the Office of the Solicitor of Labor was more corrupt than at any time before. Among other things, Eugene's henchmen covered the butts of many political appointees at the Labor Department who were stealing the government blind with contracts to their own companies, bogus travel vouchers, and other forms of theft.
And the apple does not fall far from the tree. Did you know that of all the court cases from the Labor Department (remember that Eugene was the Labor Department's top lawyer) that hit the Supreme Court during Eugene's tenure, and all the ones that got there after he had to pack up and leave but still had his fingerprints on them, Justice Scalie did not recuse himself from even one! In any other court the judge would be brought up on charges for doing that.
That's quit a standard of decency.
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