Saturday, June 27, 2015

Justice Scalia and the threat to democracy

In his dissent to the gay marriage case, according to an AP report, Justice Antonin Scalia said he was not concerned as much about the same-sex marriage decision as he was about “this court’s threat to American democracy.”

This is the same justice who voted with the majority to allow unlimited corporate and personal gifts to candidates, limited workers’ rights to bring cases against wage discrimination, limited the right of women to control their own bodies, and gutted the Voting Rights Act passed in the Sixties.  


I don’t think Scalia has to worry one little bit about the Court being a threat to American democracy.  I think he and his cohorts have already wrecked it.

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