Scalito shows his best side - again...!

remember this...?



well, he's at it again, not quite as in-your-face, but at it all the same...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ripped the newsmedia Saturday in a talk on the judiciary sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation. He also dismissed the idea of judicial independence as an absolute virtue.

"You talk about independence as though it is unquestionably and unqualifiably a good thing," Scalia said. "It may not be. It depends on what your courts are doing....The more your courts become policy-makers, the less sense it makes to have them entirely independent."

Scalia expressed disdain for the news media and the general reading public and suggested that together they condone inaccurate portrayals of federal judges and courts. "The press is never going to report judicial opinions accurately," he said.

"They're just going to report, who is the plaintiff? Was that a nice little old lady? And who is the defendant? Was this, you know, some scuzzy guy? And who won? Was it the good guy that won or the bad guy?"

[He] complained that people understand the courts through a news media that typically oversimplifies and sensationalizes. He said people's ability to amplify their comments globally about judges and their opinions on the Internet takes a toll on the judiciary.

"This is not just like somebody handing out a leaflet in the past, where a small number of people can see this," he said. "This is available to the world. ... It changes what it means to be a judge. It certainly changes the attractiveness of a judicial career."

what did the american people ever do to deserve this kind of arrogance and contempt...? have we been bad boys and girls...?

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