Scalia to Congress: Foreign Law Bashing for Me But Not for Thee
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia peers over the precipice and takes a few steps back:
Of course, if he had said, "Let us make our little mistakes, just as we let you make your huge, innumerable, $2.7 trillion worth of mistakes..." then I would have personally sent him a dozen canoli. Oh well...
Baby steps, Nino, baby steps.
In any case, one wonders whether Scalia would feel the same way if a Congressional "mistake" in the form of, say, a jurisdiction stripping statute made its way to the Supreme Court.
Scalia on Thursday repeated his strong opposition to invoking foreign law in Supreme Court constitutional decisions — but he said Congress should not legislate against the practice.Not bad, not bad at all.
"I don't think it's any of your business," Scalia said before a lunch meeting of the National Italian American Foundation that included many members of Congress of Italian descent. "I'll be darned if I think it's up to Congress to tell us how to rule."
Scalia added, "Let us make our little mistakes, just as we let you make yours."
Of course, if he had said, "Let us make our little mistakes, just as we let you make your huge, innumerable, $2.7 trillion worth of mistakes..." then I would have personally sent him a dozen canoli. Oh well...
Baby steps, Nino, baby steps.
In any case, one wonders whether Scalia would feel the same way if a Congressional "mistake" in the form of, say, a jurisdiction stripping statute made its way to the Supreme Court.
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Posted by Kip on
18 May 2006
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