Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is really pissed.
Scalia is known for his rhetorical flights of fancy–he compared the last marriage decision to a meatloaf–but he outdid himself in his dissent today. In language that does nothing to mask his furor, Scalia belittles the ruling itself and his colleagues who disagree with him, essentially arguing that ballot box homophobia trumps constitutional rights.
“This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves,” Scalia wrote.
Marleana Ayala
Blah blah blah, stuff it.
Russ Roberts
Phlaatt!
Eric Ginnegar
He can have his fortune cookie with his applesauce.
Gene Dale Moore
cry baby
Stephen Meeks
Well it didn’t take this jackass long to start ranting
Patrick Grisham
There is a nursing home in Sicily missing Scalia.
Stephen Meeks
If this ass is so gung-ho on States’ Rights, and against decisions being made by a group of unelected officials, then why the F*** is he on SCOTUS?
Matt Dorton-Pike
Well too bad you were out voted!
Edgar Francisco Estrada
A much needed good fortune for the economy. More weddings mean more venues that will be rented, more tuxedos and wedding dresses sold, more caterers hired, more appliances and furniture sold, more cakes made, more houses and apartments sold, and on and on…
Christine Shock
The Four Fucktards of the Apocalypse ….you lose today…you’ve lost all week…
Voltaire Erasmus
He’s a disgrace to Italian-Americans. Love your family! America is your family!
Guido Habets
who cares,he’ll be in the relics storage room soon
Colin McCoy
If Scalia hates that this “unelected committee of nine” is doing the same thing it has always done, why doesn’t he just leave it?
Stephen Meeks
And he’s just a douche
Jeremy Adams
Gerald C Greer
Go home you old, stale bag of wind.
aliengod
He really makes a mockery of the Supreme Court by having stupid outbursts like this. What a douchebag!
Michael Davy
Why don’t you just go off someplace and explode.
Blackceo
I was waiting for another phrase gem from him today. I mean “interpretive jiggery-pokery” was pure comedic gold yesterday.
andy_d
I hope the bag he hides his head in is a plastic one securely fastened around his neck.
Jonathon Popphan
#impeachment
John Gibson
Ever the sore loser.
Dameon Gene Rogers
Boob
Cagnazzo82
A cautionary tale for term limits if I’ve ever seen one.
This dinosaur should’ve been forced into retirement at least a decade ago.
Kangol
Enema bag Scalia should read the fortune cookies of social and political change a bit more and accept he’s on the losing side of history.
His rant really goes overboard this time, though.
What is he so worked up about? Is he a closet case? He seems really, really angry that others will have the opportunity to be equal under the law, and potentially very happy.
NateOcean
What a nasty bitter old man.
It’s not troublesome that he dissents from the majority opinion, but the manner in which he does so. He denigrates his colleges while simultaneously pandering to the right wingers with trite cutesy throwaway sound bites..
Contrast this with Justice Kennedy’s well written, eloquent, and insightful opinion.
Jimmy McKinney
You’re a mess and deal with it. Plus it looks like you’ve been eating way too many cookies looking for the message.
Chris
What he does with these sorts of dissents is to render himself irrelevant and pathetic.
ScottOnEarth
Sore loser. Emphasis on ‘loser.’ And to think this childish blowfish is part of the Supreme Court?!
Bauhaus
As revolting as Nino is, Thomas one-upped him. As Nino’s lap dog, Thomas went out of his way to try and offend to the core. What a degenerate.
Phillip
I think he should stick his head in a bag and leave it there.
Joshua Anthony Villegas
Scalia can take a stadium full of seats….go to bed, wig!!!
Brad Lane
Ok, time for bozo to retire. What kind of Supreme Court judge wants his opinions, now in public, to use stupid childish phrases? Future law professors will hand these over to comedians!
Gregg Ray
watch out for this – a lot of folk agree with him
Louis DeLena
Have you ever noticed how the conservative act liked spoiled children
billywonka
I keep hoping, having lost so many times this week, that Scalia will stroke out.
Dakotahgeo
Poor old Antonio Pissoffia Scalia is fulla pepperoni shitpasta!
1EqualityUSA
Scaliasaurus.
hyhybt
Argle bargle.
1EqualityUSA
Bonfire of the vanities….1497, gay men burned alive by Girolamo Savonarola, an extremist Catholic priest. Scalia, where were you in 1497?
Let us NEVER again allow another Republican to pick Supreme Court Justices. The ramifications of complacency will harm us. Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts are biased against us.
1EqualityUSA
meatloaf.
thomas prentice
Jiggery-Pokery? JIGGERY-POKERY?
Why did Justice Antonin Scalia use the alcohol/sexual term “jiggery-pokery” in his hypermaniacal dissent from marriage equality?
I first heard what was perhaps the antecedent term – “tokery-pokery” two or three decades ago from a guy who was definitely NOT a scholar of the etymology of English words. Heavy emphasis on the “NOT”.
It would follow logically that the more cumbersome but no less descriptive term “jiggery/pokery” would emerge to describe the alcohol-fueled American sexual culture which permeates the US far more widely despite the march of marijuana legalizing by renegade states.
Clearly, the term of art has NOTHING to do with the “jiggery-pokery” of British English cited by that noted cunning linguist, Dr. Antonin Scalia.