...to all the political nonsense, but still, and I apologize for being ghoulish, I am glad a certain justice is no longer issuing opinions.

In Bush v Gore, Scalia gave us Bush, which meant the Iraq war and everything else we might have wanted to avoid. In Citizens United, Scalia gave us the oligarchic and corporate takeover of our country. I have not been fond of either decision.

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And here some Scalia quotes:

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carryout a death sentence properly reached.

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.

The body of scientific evidence supporting creation science is as strong as that supporting evolution. In fact, it may be stronger.... The evidence for evolution is far less compelling than we have been led to believe. Evolution is not a scientific fact, since it cannot actually be observed in a laboratory. Rather, evolution is merely a scientific theory or guess.... It is a very bad guess at that. The scientific problems with evolution are so serious that it could accurately be termed a myth.

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?