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shraby

(21,946 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:45 PM Jan 2015

WHEN are the rest of the Supremes going to ask for Scalia's resignation??

From his statements made in public in the last few years, it's beyond obvious that the man is suffering from dementia or Alzheimers.

It's a disgrace that they don't do so, since the man is becoming more and more incapable of making sensible judgements in matters of law and the constitution.

When he is making his decisions based on a t.v. series and calling them logical, it's time for him to go quietly and promptly.

Example of his reasoning which is opposite to the constitution he is supposed to protect and uphold:

"Perhaps, as Justice Scalia told a Swiss university audience earlier this month, it is indeed “very facile” for Americans to declare that “torture is terrible.” The justice posited to his listeners a classic ticking-time-bomb scenario—this one involving “a person that you know for sure knows the location of a nuclear bomb that has been planted in Los Angeles and will kill millions of people”—and asked, “You think it’s clear that you cannot use extreme measures to get that information out of that person?”

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WHEN are the rest of the Supremes going to ask for Scalia's resignation?? (Original Post) shraby Jan 2015 OP
Scalia has been showing signs of increasing senility for some time Gothmog Jan 2015 #1
I disagree. I don't believe he's suffering from dementia. I think ... 11 Bravo Jan 2015 #4
Here is a great article re: Scalia's "personal" Constitution cheyanne Jan 2015 #2
so hard to tell. really, i think he's merely gotten more brazen. unblock Jan 2015 #3
You leave Diana Ross out of this shenmue Jan 2015 #5

Gothmog

(145,126 posts)
1. Scalia has been showing signs of increasing senility for some time
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 04:00 PM
Jan 2015

I also believe that Scalia has been showing signs of senility for some time

cheyanne

(733 posts)
2. Here is a great article re: Scalia's "personal" Constitution
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 04:01 PM
Jan 2015

It discusses Scalia's claims to be an "originalist" and his inability to provide any "originalist" foundation for his decisions.
http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6105&context=law_lawreview

Re: his take on torture. The torture report seemed to miss out on the CIA's chance to come up with one instance in which they "know for sure" that someone has important info and that they obtained it by torture.

unblock

(52,195 posts)
3. so hard to tell. really, i think he's merely gotten more brazen.
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 04:05 PM
Jan 2015

neither his views nor his "logic" has really changed. he's just less concerned with covering up the ugly truth.

this is fairly normal with getting older and with having more people around who think like you.

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