Shame, shame, shame

the nyt allocates shame in two of today's editorials...

• Iraq is becoming a country that America should be ashamed to support, let alone occupy. The nation as a whole is sliding closer to open civil war. In its capital, thugs kidnap and torture innocent civilians with impunity, then murder them for their religious beliefs. The rights of women are evaporating. The head of the government is the ally of a radical anti-American cleric who leads a powerful private militia that is behind much of the sectarian terror.

• [J]ustices do have a duty to avoid off-the-bench behavior hurtful to the court's reputation and mission, which Justice Antonin Scalia, sad to say, keeps ignoring.
  
  In January, Justice Scalia skipped the swearing-in of Chief Justice John Roberts for a trip sponsored by the Federalist Society to a luxury resort in Colorado. In February, he suggested that those who adhere to a vision of an evolving Constitution, rather than his originalist philosophy of judging, are "idiots." This past week found the conservative justice insisting that a hand gesture he used while answering a question about church-state jurisprudence was not vulgar.
  
  And speaking on March 8 at a university in Switzerland, he dismissed as "crazy" the notion that military detainees are entitled to a "full jury trial..."

yes indeed, there's a great deal we can all be ashamed of and the majority of it has accumulated in just the past six years...

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