Meet Antonin Scalia. Scott Brown's kind of Supreme Court Justice
During Monday's debate between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown, the candidates were asked who is their model Supreme Court justice. Scott Brown's answer: Antonin Scalia.
For those of you who may have just become aware of Antonin Scalia, here's a primer:
Antonin Scalia voted against protecting equal pay for equal work for women in the Lilly Ledbetter case. Justice Ginsburg wrote in dissent:
Ledbetter's evidence demonstrated that her current pay was discriminatorily low due to a long series of decisions reflecting Goodyear's pervasive discrimination against women [...] Yet, under the Court's decision, the discrimination Ledbetter proved is not redressable under Title VII. [...] The Court's approbation of these consequences is totally at odds with the robust protection against workplace discrimination Congress intended Title VII to secure.
Scott Brown's kind of Supreme Court justice has been voting against women for a long time. He has repeatedly voted to restrict a woman's right to choose, including in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where Scalia wrote:
The issue is whether [the right to choose] is a liberty protected by the Constitution of the United States. I am sure it is not.
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Scalia has long been a bullying asshole. And judging from Scott Brown's performances in his debates with Elizabeth Warren so far, we can see why Scalia is Brown's kind of Supreme Court justice. After all, one bullying asshole is sure to admire another.
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They perform a valuable ecological service, but Brown doesn't.