Supreme Court Justice Scalia: "Im an originalist"

[Lestat]

I like the fact everyone gets heard as well -- I just think the legislative process is setup to filter all those opinions and turn them into laws. The SC writing laws seems like a massive end-around run that we should shut down before disaster strikes.

The court is there to interpret laws, statutes and precedence at all lower courts against the rights of the constitution correct? Are they doing more than that in your opinion?

 

[heatherrae]

Just barely I was drunk most of the time.

You're a riot.

 

[heatherrae]

I don't think he was talking about a specific case. He was just saying that Roe vs. Wade was a stretch but trying to fight in the other direction by conferring some new, implied set of rights to the unborn would be equally bad. I just liked how his opinion seemed to cut in both directions -- which is a rare quality these days.

Well, there has to be a "case in controversy" in order for the Supreme Court to grant cert. So, I'm not quite sure on the distinction that is being drawn here. Roe v. Wade was brought before the court to review the constitutionality of a Texas statute. Am I missing something here? Please comment.