Thanks to a poster on TPM that read this before I did....
As if we needed yet another reason to vote for a Democrat this coming election, Antonin Scalia gave an interview with the BBC....
Justice Scalia... often held by conservatives as the ideal Justice gave this interview to the BBC where he came out and said:
"smacking someone in the face" could be justified if there was an imminent threat.
"You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good',"
You can read the full, scary interview here...:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
He went on to decry Europe over the death penalty:
"There are arguments for it and against it. But to get self-righteous about the thing as Europeans tend to do about the American death penalty is really quite ridiculous."
Regardless of our differences of opinion between our own candidates... cannot we just agree that having a Supreme Court made up of Scalia's would be a very bad thing indeed?
This is John McCain's view on Justice Scalia:
Ponnuru: Are there any members of the current Supreme Court that you particularly admire or regard as a model?
Sen. McCain: Eh of course, Antonin Scalia. He’s a lot of our conservative models, I admire how articulate he is, but I also from everything I’ve seen I admire Roberts as well.
I think it’s vital to strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and have a record of that. Not just a statement of it, but a record of it.
It came from an NRO article: http://article.nationalreview.com/...
Don't get me wrong... Senator McCain has been one of the few on the Republican side to come out to (correctly) decry the use of torture... but if appointing more Scalias to the bench is his idea of Judicial Appointments, it won't really matter what he personally thinks of the tactic.
It's about SCOTUS people!