No joy in teabaggerville! Scalia says there is no right to secede.

[jefferson_dem]

http://twitter.com/markos/statuses/9206259696

[depakid]

1. "Hence, the pledge of allegiance"

:rofl:

This guy (and his 4 colleagues) have made a mockery- if not a laughingstock out of the Court. This bit just lowers the level to the absurd (as if the court or a Justice would, in the past, have even addressed the matter in such a letter at all.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Scalia stopped following precedent...maybe he would rule otherwise in this case.

[depakid]

3. Arguably, there are at least two states with a colorable claim

But you're right- Scalia and his crew have long been practitioners of results oriented jurisprudence (which is considerably worse than "judicial activism). They simply determine what result the want based strictly on their ideology, and then use whatever sophistry they and their clerks can piece together to get the rest of your crew to support it.

[DeadEyeDyck]

4. but isn't secession, by its very nature,

the act of one group removing itself from the authority of another?